NY chicken lover!!!!

[vmdanielsen]

Welcome from SC!

Hello and welcome just reebok! What brings you to the NY thread? How goes it in SC?

 

[vmdanielsen]

We do have good Other Animal news - we have new bees (newbies?)! Alan checked the hives over the weekend and saw plenty of shiny young bees among the old, tattered ladies who are reaching the ends of their lifespans, so both queens are good. Go, bees!

Newbies? Hahaha!

 

[vmdanielsen]

But if the live wire is close to the wall it is possible that if the bird touches the live wire and the wall that the bird will ground and fry itself. I think about things far to much.





Animals have to have contact with the ground in order to feel a shock. I see birds sitting on my electric fence wires all the time. So if chicks fly up on it, they won't feel a thing. I do use the yellow elec. tape connected to my fence to make smaller areas. It works ok, but breaks easily, so I"m not a big fan of it.


Originally Posted by featherz




I may do the same - I posted them up because I can use the room and they are going stir crazy being locked up - but if I don't find the right home they can stay here. The rest of my chickens I don't have as much guilt about.

My fence charger, although a low end one, is nice because the voltage is displayed on the front. So if it's reading 13 something to 14 something I am good. The day I was getting the snap crackle pop it would go from 13 to 0.7, then back up. Went out at night and found the sparker. I think when we had the wimpy 2K charger on there the problem did not show itself but now that we have POWER it's a bit of a difference.

Bugs don't seem to fry on my fence although I've seen an uptick in dead mice lately. maybe they are tall enough to ground out when on the wire.

Is it safe to use electrical tape on the wire where it comes out of the charger? I think that's one area I ended up with a dead mouse and I think some of the higher flying chicks could get up there. Hubby put insulators on the wire where it passes through the coop wall into the outside, but there's still a small bit of exposed wire. The charger is mounted very high up so the risk is minimal, but I thought maybe I could make it even safer. We do have the insulated wire and I made him use it on the other coop, but it's a lot thicker and harder to work with.

 

[featherz]

the wire is insulated where it goes through the coop, the only portion that is not is the small area that was spliced on to the charger. It's maybe 1 -1/2 inches long. Since the charger is always making that ticking sound AND the tiny bit of open wire is bright and shiny, I keep thinking a chick might fly up there to investigate. The charger is sitting on a little ledge so a chick (not a full grown chicken) COULD get up there. That's why I was thinking of covering that 1.5 inches with electrical tape - would make it not shiny and hopefully prevent shocks?

 

[featherz]

whoops double post! Durn ipad.

 

[marquisella]

No, wood acts as an insulator, and still, the bird has to have its feet on the ground to get a shock. Also, feathers will insulate a chickens body from the wire. I've had them go under wires & touch their backs but the feathers prevented them from feeling the shock. I've touchd & moved live wires on my fence using a wooden stick, no shocks. My fencer is a 25 miler, so it gives out a good shock. I can attest to it when one day I inadvertanly grabbed a wire with my hand while standing in very wet grass..Ouch!

But if the live wire is close to the wall it is possible that if the bird touches the live wire and the wall that the bird will ground and fry itself. I think about things far to much.





Animals have to have contact with the ground in order to feel a shock. I see birds sitting on my electric fence wires all the time. So if chicks fly up on it, they won't feel a thing. I do use the yellow elec. tape connected to my fence to make smaller areas. It works ok, but breaks easily, so I"m not a big fan of it.


Originally Posted by featherz




I may do the same - I posted them up because I can use the room and they are going stir crazy being locked up - but if I don't find the right home they can stay here. The rest of my chickens I don't have as much guilt about.

My fence charger, although a low end one, is nice because the voltage is displayed on the front. So if it's reading 13 something to 14 something I am good. The day I was getting the snap crackle pop it would go from 13 to 0.7, then back up. Went out at night and found the sparker. I think when we had the wimpy 2K charger on there the problem did not show itself but now that we have POWER it's a bit of a difference.

Bugs don't seem to fry on my fence although I've seen an uptick in dead mice lately. maybe they are tall enough to ground out when on the wire.

Is it safe to use electrical tape on the wire where it comes out of the charger? I think that's one area I ended up with a dead mouse and I think some of the higher flying chicks could get up there. Hubby put insulators on the wire where it passes through the coop wall into the outside, but there's still a small bit of exposed wire. The charger is mounted very high up so the risk is minimal, but I thought maybe I could make it even safer. We do have the insulated wire and I made him use it on the other coop, but it's a lot thicker and harder to work with.

 

[Framac]

I was kind of sad when I got home last night. A friend was looking for a rooster, and as I have 4 BLRW, 2 roosters 2 hens, one of those roosters was the one to go. I boxed him up in the AM and went to work, and gave him to the new owner. The 4 had been together in the same pen for their entire lives.

I got home last night, rained all day, and when I went around 8 o'clock to lock everyone up, the only one not in the coop was the remaining BLRW Rooster. He was outside in the rain looking for him brother in the run. Poor Guy.

Framac

 

[County Boy]

This is my hen Shortie. She is also for sale. i wanted to keep her and still do but I can't because I'm selling my silkies and she will only be hurting my wallet and causing mut chickens. She is the friendliest hen ever. She eats from my hand as well but really all my chickens will. She is the only one who teaches the chicks she broods how though.

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

Good Morning! I haven't been able to keep up recently with this thread - life.

Anyhow, I have a broody hen (second time this season for this hen) and I'm hoping someone out there will have pure bred, fertile hatching eggs for sale I can put under her. My flock is all running together right now so I can't guarantee pure chicks. I'm in Oneida and can come pick them up. PM me if you have some! THANK YOU!

Are you looking for a specific breed or anything pure?

 

[featherz]

No, wood acts as an insulator, and still, the bird has to have its feet on the ground to get a shock. Also, feathers will insulate a chickens body from the wire. I've had them go under wires & touch their backs but the feathers prevented them from feeling the shock. I've touchd & moved live wires on my fence using a wooden stick, no shocks. My fencer is a 25 miler, so it gives out a good shock. I can attest to it when one day I inadvertanly grabbed a wire with my hand while standing in very wet grass..Ouch!

Now see, I posted this thread yesterday and everyone was insisting that my top wire would work without additional grounding if something climbed up the wood walls and touched it. Not true? I had planned to add a second ground wire or maybe a piece of grounded fence behind the top wire, but the folks in my electric fence thread seemed to think the animal would ground through the wood..

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/676528/electric-fence-question-s-foxes-coons-skunks

Gotta say, I had a chick stuck outside the other day that I could not catch - he walked into the wire with his feet on the ground many times and was definitely not shocked. The feathers help a lot!