[AlpacaTalk] re: electric fence
If electric fence killed everything it touched my hubby would be dead many times over by now! LOL, er.... sorta. (she furtively types hoping he won't come in and read over her shoulder)
He got fried a few times when we had electric fencing. One time he got knocked on his butt hard because he got the grounding wire and one of the higher ups at the same time.
Cats and dogs got shocked once and never again touched it, as well as 99.9% of the alpacas. Except for Luxor- fleece so long he would just push on the wire and climb out between the strands! That boy can get through, over under and Houdini himself out of anything. While the other boys would watch trepidatiously, Luxor would just waltz through the fence and go eat the grass outside his dry lot pen.
I am half convinced they dared him.
Right now he is behind 5' Redbrand woven fencing and that seems to be the trick. We never saw dead birds or any other dead wildlife in the three years we had electric. We had 9 strands on the back fence and 7 everywhere else and it worked well for a while, but unless you tension it correctly, and tighten it regularly it will sag eventually.
Good fencing is not cheap, and cheap fencing will come back to bite you on the butt eventually, I know because we went for cheap when we started 10 years ago and we have been replacing it all in small bits ever since.
My favorite combo is the Redbrand and a hotline on the top about 5" above the fenceline.
Slainte~
Rachelle
Black Magic Alpaca Ranch
Honesty, Integrity, Quality
Wyatt & Rachelle Black
P.O. Box 457
6500 Digier Road
Lebec, CA
93243
(661-248-6568)
wyattblack@earthlin
http://pasturemusin
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