I’ve read some discussion lately about baiting hot wires and electric fences to make sure the predators get a good zap to teach them to stay away. I’d like to know some details on where to apply the bait. I’m planning to use bits of foil with hamburger or bacon grease on them. Do I need to make hundreds of little greasy foil bits and put them all over everywhere? Or is it as simple as a couple dabs per each side of the fence?
My husband seems to think I don’t need many, because whatever comes around will smell the grease and be lured to wherever I put it. So maybe I should space them 10-20 feet apart?
I want to put some of it down at chicken and duck beak height, so they will learn to stay on their side of it. They used to respect the fence without it being baited, but after a few years, the fence sustained some damage and then the birds started walking between the wires and ranging farther and farther afield. Now that I have repaired the fence, I want to retrain them to stay inside it. (It is 5 strands of hot wire on T-posts and step-in posts.
I also want to bait it at coyote, fox and dog nose height. I know all of those could just jump right over it, but I am hoping to bait them and shock them into running away before they figure out to jump over.
Do those of you who bait fences have to constantly renew the bait? How often? Thank you to anyone who can give me some pointers on how to go about the baiting process.
My husband seems to think I don’t need many, because whatever comes around will smell the grease and be lured to wherever I put it. So maybe I should space them 10-20 feet apart?
I want to put some of it down at chicken and duck beak height, so they will learn to stay on their side of it. They used to respect the fence without it being baited, but after a few years, the fence sustained some damage and then the birds started walking between the wires and ranging farther and farther afield. Now that I have repaired the fence, I want to retrain them to stay inside it. (It is 5 strands of hot wire on T-posts and step-in posts.
I also want to bait it at coyote, fox and dog nose height. I know all of those could just jump right over it, but I am hoping to bait them and shock them into running away before they figure out to jump over.
Do those of you who bait fences have to constantly renew the bait? How often? Thank you to anyone who can give me some pointers on how to go about the baiting process.