Re: [AlpacaTalk] RE: Electric fence
I would definitely NEVER put hot wire or any other type of wire on the
inside of a fence or the animals will get hurt. Ours is all on the outside. Our
current is high and it does kill the occasional rabbit, squirrel or bird but
humans can touch it, which you will never do again after the first time. It
shocked our barn cat, who took off and never came back after the second time
it happened. However, the coyotes just have to sniff it or touch it and
avoid the entire area now. Our alpacas can't touch it but our horses can in
their pasture if they reach over the top of the fence or push the bottom of the
fence hard enough to touch the outside bottom wire. They learned not to do
that very quickly. Buy a tester or use a heavy wooden stick to push the hot
wire up against metal to check often to see if its on (it will spark). Weeds
growing against it or fallen tree branches can break the current.
SUSAN OLSON
Alpaca Loco
Riverside, CA
In a message dated 3/2/2009 6:01:13 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
houckj@aol.com writes:
<<<<2. The next farm had hot wire, not sure why along the bottom on the
alpaca side also, boys started to wrestle and fight and one of there
beautiful boys got tangled up in the hot wire and died from
electrocution.
See what I mean! Every time I think I have it settled, along comes
something else to confound me! This is just too scary. And I will have
hot wire along the bottom and top - inside - to keep the goats in which
I am told are real escape artists and will put the horses to shame
When I questioned the person that I am hiring to help put the fence up
and mentioned some fo the things I have read here, he said that the
voltage (I think it was voltage, maybe it was amperage - that stuff is
so confusing to me) is so low that it wouldn't kill anything, and
besides, he said, the bird, or the cat, or the child would have to touch
the hot wire and the ground wire at the same time. He said the wire is
so small anyway that a cat is not going to land on it. He said the
stories I am hearing here must be household current - which *will*
electrocute, but not the standard fence chargers.
So, Heather and Mary Jane, HOW are these animals getting electrocuted?
If the wire is breaking and they are getting tangled up, wouldn't the
current be broken?
Thanks! Janice, days away from putting up a fence, and cannot afford to
make a mistake and would DIE if anything I did caused the death of one
of my precious pacas
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