[NAFEX] neighbors/electric fence

Road's End Farm organic87 at frontiernet.net
Tue May 12 21:40:43 EDT 2009


On May 12, 2009, at 7:40 PM, Sheridan Shumway wrote:

>
> done properly and your not stupid about it an electric fence is 
> harmless to even small children......generally it only takes being bit 
> by one once and even pretty young kids learn what to look out for(sure 
> in the heck didnt take us long and we werent farm kids)...will it 
> sting some? sure but on a normal pain scale it doesnt rate very 
> high....

Nevertheless, in an area where electric fences are otherwise unheard 
of, it may get the neighborhood up in arms. There are a lot of things 
that farm kids and farm families take for granted that freak out at 
least some city kids and families (and, I'm sure, this is also true the 
other way around).

--Rivka
Finger Lakes NY; zone 5 mostly
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