When testing an electric fence...

[CityGirlintheCountry]

I have to question why it would occur to anybody to pee on an electric fence. I mean, really. Most kids figure out about electricity about the time they learn to walk. What would possess a boy old enough to be walking about unattended to just whip it out and pee away?

 

[gritsar]

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It's a boy thang, like you said. Why do they dare each other to stick their tongues to metal poles when it's freezing outside? Or shoot each other with BB guns just to see how much it hurts?

 

[PurpleChicken]

I'm with David on this one. A good fence can do some heavy damage to
human or swine flesh.

I was working on AHappyChicks fence live a few weeks back and took a hit. I've
gotten shocked by lots of things but that felt very strange and not too comfy.
I'd do it again for fun.

 

[Davaroo]

It's exactly what gritsar said, and lets face it - if you've never been bitten by an electric fence, you really cannot know....

It is one of those "country things" rural people joke about, but really shouldn't. Some say it wont do anything, others claim to speak with the voice of experience. Im in the third group - those who DO NOT want to find out.

SO not all guys go around peeing on anything and everything...

 

[gritsar]

We once babysat my sister's great dane for several months while she was on the road. We had to put an electric fence around the inside of our chain link fence to keep the dane from digging out. Charlie Girl stayed away from the fence the minute we plugged it in, having had experience with electric fences. Her dane however just had to go investigate it. Do you know how much great danes drool? And what happens when the drool runs from their mouth right down to the fence? Dumbest dog I've ever known. She did it three times before she figured out what was causing it.

 

[CrazyChickMom]

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The chickens have to be grounded in order for it to shock them. In other words, they have to have their feet (or another body part) on the ground when they touch the fence.
The electric fence we have around our coop is to keep the cows out, not the chickens in. One time of finding a cow INSIDE my coop eating their litter was enough for me.

My chickens have hit the fence before, but they were in mid-flight at the time, so it didn't shock them.

How do I keep my chickens out of my vegtable garden? I was going to put up 3 strans of wire but now I am thinking only 2.

 

[gritsar]

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The chickens have to be grounded in order for it to shock them. In other words, they have to have their feet (or another body part) on the ground when they touch the fence.
The electric fence we have around our coop is to keep the cows out, not the chickens in. One time of finding a cow INSIDE my coop eating their litter was enough for me.

My chickens have hit the fence before, but they were in mid-flight at the time, so it didn't shock them.

How do I keep my chickens out of my vegtable garden? I was going to put up 3 strans of wire but now I am thinking only 2.

You are best off making a regular fence, such as one made out of fence wire or chicken wire and wooden or metal posts. Several companies sell electric poultry netting, but to me it seems awful expensive.

 

[Up-the-Creek]

DH and I just decided to put up an electric fence around our garden because the deer had been eating all my green beans. We went to check on it the next day to make sure nothing had got into it. I saw a squirrel setting in my garden and I wondered why he was setting so still. We went closer to it and it still did not run,..then we saw the flies. We went over to it and the poor thing had grabbed a hold of the fence and I guess it zapped him, so he bit it. He was holding on to the fence with both front feet and his mouth with his ears peeled back. My DH kicked him off the fence and it had scorched him so much that the bottom of his feet and tail were black, it had cooked him to the ground.

 

[CrazyChickMom]

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How do I keep my chickens out of my vegtable garden? I was going to put up 3 strans of wire but now I am thinking only 2.

You are best off making a regular fence, such as one made out of fence wire or chicken wire and wooden or metal posts. Several companies sell electric poultry netting, but to me it seems awful expensive.

Great idea. I've got some heavy plastic fencing that sort of looks like chicken wire. I can do this on the bottom and then electric fencing around the top to keep the deer out. Thanks..you've just saved me some money! (and chickens too!)

 

[Davaroo]

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Perfect! That saves you the trouble. Cook up some rice, ladle on some stewed tomatoes and lunch is served.