Electric Fencing

[lupinfarm]

Hahaha... That's okay, I wear glasses and always muddle things up.

 

[cmjust0]

Ohh yeah it's a lot easier to work with! HOWEVER It is considerably more expensive than bare wire.

Isn't it funny how that works?

Personally, I think it should be the other way around...I think the things that work the best should always be cheaper, and things should get more and more expensive the worse they get.

 

[lupinfarm]

Haha.. Of course I was paying $75/roll of the polyrope, but we also found someone who sells it for $35/roll (600ft rolls, but at 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 lines, thats not cheap LOL).

 

[skippacheval]

I have high tensile wire that is attached to a high output fence charger. We have 7 wires with the bottom 3 only 4 inches apart and the bottom wire 4 inches off the ground. They are bottom hot(wire 1) then hot wires 3,5,7, the others are grounded. The goats still get out. You will need woven wire which we have changed to. They figure out how to quickly sneak under the fence. They kind of run at it. I wouldn't trust just straight wire fence(or rope). Sorry!

 

[lupinfarm]

I have high tensile wire that is attached to a high output fence charger. We have 7 wires with the bottom 3 only 4 inches apart and the bottom wire 4 inches off the ground. They are bottom hot(wire 1) then hot wires 3,5,7, the others are grounded. The goats still get out. You will need woven wire which we have changed to. They figure out how to quickly sneak under the fence. They kind of run at it. I wouldn't trust just straight wire fence(or rope). Sorry!

The issue is that we don't have enough soil for posts for high tensile woven fence. My goat fencing is going to be a wood floating fence, its 4 "rails" which are 3" cedar logs on kind of a-frames with 4 more lines of electric run on the inside with one at the top, if that makes sense.