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  • From: Barking Cat Farm <barkingcatfarm AT mindspring.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Animal and neighbor problems
  • Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 11:58:07 -0500

On Mar 29, 2011, at 8:25 PMMar/29/11, KAKerby AT aol.com wrote:

> Our partner farm's neighborhood has wandering dogs too, and I keep
> threatening to string field fence around our growing area and be done with
> it.

We did just that last year. Turns out the neighbor hound dog, one of the
main culprits we were aiming to keep off the property, is a digger and found
a low spot to dig under. It still keeps him from coming on as much as he
used to, but we are working towards a better deterrent. There is another
place where it looks like a dog has dug under a low spot. We're thinking of
stringing a hot wire all the way around (underground at the gates) couple
inches off the ground using t-post stand-off type insulators and keeping it
hot with a solar charger we have. This has worked well for our deer fencing,
and I recently read on one of these lists, not sure if it was this one, that
it's a good deterrent for feral hogs. We don't have those yet, but it's just
a matter of time. If anybody has a better solution for "diggers" (aside from
shooting or trapping, which we may end up having to resort to if the hotwire
doesn't work), we'd love to hear it.

Laurie
Barking Cat Farm
Zones 7&8 where it was shorts weather a week ago, 3 layers of clothing worth
of cold earlier this week, back in the 80's today…whew


  • Re: [Market-farming] Animal and neighbor problems, Barking Cat Farm, 04/01/2011

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