Finally the electric fence is complete! :)

[TimBaumann]

A few months ago I got some chicken from a friend and I put up a fence to keep the dogs out of the other part of our yard! Well one of my dogs got through and killed all my 4 young chicken and buried them in the other part of the yard! About 2 months ago I ordered a small electric fence generator off ebay and sadly the package never arrived ! then I ordered another one and finally it arrived! Yesterday my dad, my mom and me started to build it and finished today!


Here you can see the white pipes used to hold up the wire for the electric fencing!

I used some local thorn bushes to make sure that there was absolutely no possibility of my dog getting through!



It took a lot of work and bloody fingers to finally get this done but now I can be confident about keeping my chicken safe from my dog! I'm also planning on getting a turkey!

 

[1Teacherchick]

It looks good! Just one thing to be aware of, if anything dry (thorns) touches the electric wire, it shouldn't make a difference. But if anything wet touches it and also touches the wet ground (from rain or sprinkler), it will short out the rest of the wire, leaving no shock value for the entire rest of the wire. I don't know how often it gets rain by you, so I don't know if it will be a problem.

Also, if the dog gets shocked a few times when it is dry, he probably will not try again, even if it is all soaking wet. The only problem would be if dew or something regularly shorts it out.

When I was a kid, we had one of those and would dare each other to touch it. Always good for a laugh when my brother did it!

 

[TimBaumann]

thanks.. yeah I watched out while positioning the twigs so that none touched the wires! And we only get rain during two times of the year so rain won't be much of a problem! I think dew is the only thing that could maybe affect it since we live at the coast. But I guess I'll just have to wait and see! Now all I need are the chicken!