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  • From: Andy Wendt <andywendt AT fastermac.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Premier fencing--electronet
  • Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 10:14:36 -0600

Premier has come out with a new style of electronet fencing that has stays every 5-6 feet instead of every 14 or so.  However, you only have to put in 1/2 of the stakes, because 1/2 of the stakes just sit on top of the ground.  This should help keep the netting from sagging so much and make it more resistant to high winds.  

If anyone is thinking about getting the electronet fencing they should get 2 roles of fencing for every one that they put in the field.  This makes it so much easier to move livestock!  Otherwise moving them gets downright impossible and time consuming.  

Andy Wendt
Middleton, Idaho


On Mar 28, 2006, at 11:35 AM, Nan Johnson wrote:

Re: Premier fencing for goats - I use the 4 ft Electrashock net fencing, but not frequently.  It does tend to sag alot between stakes.
 
When I worked at the Heifer International ranch, we used this Electrashock goat fencing for herd of 50 goats & sheep and two Scotch Highland cows with horns - calf got tangled in it one day, but we could repair it.  We moved it every few days for intensive grazing.
 
I do use the Premier Poultry net fencing for my rare ducks (Silver Appleyards), though I have a Great Pyrenees as "back up" since in a storm, the sections of this fencing have blown over enough to start sparking where hot wire touches ground. 
 
Also, it takes a lot of mowing in Mississippi in the summer, to keep grass from touching the first hot wire.  In winter, the on/off button on the charger unit freezes and I have to gingerly undo the hot and ground wires, rather than use the bottom (nerve wracking, since I am not at ease with electricity!)
 Have no idea if the fencing or the dog are what have kept fatalities to zero (lost ALOT of ducks before the two, which were put in place simultaneously).  These ducks don't fly and they trained to the fencing immediately.
I am using their solar battery. 
 
nan at dancing goats farm, n. mississippi  zone 7b
 
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