Keeping dogs away

[christy campbell]

BTW, this is how I handle the dips. Set a T post in the bottom of it, use the clip on insulators upside down, so they are holding the wire down vs. up. Use the white step in posts on the edge of the dip. Done right, and you can follow some pretty severe terrain. If it is really severe, like a ditch, you can hang a loop of wire or even an empty beer can attached to a wire. Goal is varmints can't get past it without brushing up against it. They only need to touch it.

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Below are the ratchets used to tension the fence. Set them on the corners like these are, or somewhere in the line. A really large area may need a couple sets of these. They cost about $3 each. Remarkably cheap in my mind for what they accomplish.

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Thanks thats what i will get does tractor supply carry those or do i order them from the website

 

[Howard E]

TSC should have everything I've listed. If not, let us know what they don't have.

 

[christy campbell]

TSC should have everything I've listed. If not, let us know what they don't have.

I really appreciate ur help i told my landlord and he is going to help me he rents to the people that has the dogs also n i said i was sick n tired of it so im gona write down everything to get n go to tsc n get it i hope to c thier tails tucked between their legs lol them people havnt lived here long i told them its going to be a problem letting those dogs run loose they can get mad all they wont this is my yard not thiers or thier dogs ty so much again for helping me

 

[christy campbell]

I have no tresspassing signs around my house n yard i no dogs cant read but the owners can lol i will send u a pic when i get it put up how long does it take to put one up i no u probly tired of me asking questions but like i said never had problems with dogs now racoons and possums but i have 5 traps around there coops i bait catch n release bout 8 miles from here

 

[Howard E]

I can put up a fence like that in an hour or so......but I've put up several.
One thing I failed to mention was some type of ground rod. I hooked mine to an existing section of woven wire fence, which hangs on steel posts. So each steel post is a ground rod. Ground rods are not as big a deal as people want to make them. You need one, but they are not the voodoo mystery some people try to make them out to be.

The deal with dogs is the ones who want to kill or harass chickens are simply doing what is wired into them. It's the owners that allow it to happen who are at fault. Dogs are made to pay the price. But with nothing to stop them, from the dog's point of view, why not kill and harass chickens? Dog has nothing to lose and everything to gain. Electric fences change that. That changes the balance of things in your favor. As far as the dog is concerned, that takes the fun out of it altogether. Most dogs, once zapped, will refuse to go near a hot fence, let alone try to test it twice.

And no owner really has any basis for complaint against their dog getting the crap zapped out of them by an electric fence. All they have to do to prevent that is keep them at home. If not, dogs gets it. Usually only once.