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feeling accomplished, I decided I was going to change my fence. I went back to Tractor Supply and bought 60 screw in insulators and redid the hot wires around the pen, eliminating the need for the white posts. I have a line at the very bottom- not even a mouse is getting through, in the middle, and across the top. Used a jumper wire to connect all three lines to the box...my hands are hamburger meat. ( yep you were correct, never be able to pull it tight enough by hand....well, you CAN, but your hands will be hamburger)..
I reused the wire from the first fence for the first line. By the second I said screw this, and balled all that wire up in to a heap and used fresh wire.
And then I ran around the coop and pulled all the grass and weeds from the bottom wire. I reused the white stakes to hold the chicken wire from the hot wire on the second go around.
Then- I plugged it in ( this took hours because every time I looked one of my girls or my littles were sitting against the bottom wire instead of free ranging. ). And it didnt work.
So, I pounded the ground post in about three more feet. Still didnt work.
Frustrated beyond belief I checked and rechecked my connections. Didnt work. Put my hand on the ground to push myself up to standing from sitting next to the groun post and felt pulsing not quite shocks.... so I went hunting. Yep, the chicken fence was touching the wire in the back of the pen. Pushed that back-
and tada!!!! It works!
You are all amazing thank you for all your help! Me and mine appreciate it so much!
feeling accomplished, I decided I was going to change my fence. I went back to Tractor Supply and bought 60 screw in insulators and redid the hot wires around the pen, eliminating the need for the white posts. I have a line at the very bottom- not even a mouse is getting through, in the middle, and across the top. Used a jumper wire to connect all three lines to the box...my hands are hamburger meat. ( yep you were correct, never be able to pull it tight enough by hand....well, you CAN, but your hands will be hamburger)..
I reused the wire from the first fence for the first line. By the second I said screw this, and balled all that wire up in to a heap and used fresh wire.
And then I ran around the coop and pulled all the grass and weeds from the bottom wire. I reused the white stakes to hold the chicken wire from the hot wire on the second go around.
Then- I plugged it in ( this took hours because every time I looked one of my girls or my littles were sitting against the bottom wire instead of free ranging. ). And it didnt work.
So, I pounded the ground post in about three more feet. Still didnt work.
Frustrated beyond belief I checked and rechecked my connections. Didnt work. Put my hand on the ground to push myself up to standing from sitting next to the groun post and felt pulsing not quite shocks.... so I went hunting. Yep, the chicken fence was touching the wire in the back of the pen. Pushed that back-
and tada!!!! It works!
You are all amazing thank you for all your help! Me and mine appreciate it so much!
