Can stranded electric fence be used to keep chickens (and goats)?

Trying to keep chickens and goats together. Goats first to bEAT back some blackberries, and later add the chickens. Will paddock shift with egg mobile and mobile goat shed. For the time being the birds will be of the Buff Orpington variety, per Paul Wheaton's excellent chicken expose: https://permies.com/wiki/66378/Ways-Chickens-pdf-download. Unsure of goat breed as of yet.

Hauling electric net looks like a real painus. Stranded electric fence on the other hand is a very attractive proposition. Simply beat back the blackberries in a shoddy line, do a few laps, plug-n-play, and wham-o... a new fence is born. Now, the plan is to do more laps (rows) with the strands than normal. Say 5-7 from top to bottom depending on the constitution of the birds. That should be almost the same width as the electric part of a net, minus the inconvenient to handle netting. Can you imagine hauling netting through freshly beaten blackberry paths in the Pacific Northwest?!?!

But without experience I'm either a lucky genius or a skilled idiot. I'm hoping there's a skilled genius here with some experience with this... Can I run more strands of stranded electric wire, to keep chickens and goats in a single, convenient-to-move fence system?

I wouldn’t.  

Goats certainly, and I can't see why it wouldn't work for chickens with a clipped wing. the strands will just have to be tight enough together that a chicken can't squeeze through the gap, I'm not sure about what voltage you would want for both though.

May I ask why stranded wire? Wouldn't that be a lot more expensive?

I was going to suggest polytape wire for the lower wire, then I got to thinking, would a chicken be able to take the same voltage as goats?  Or maybe you would end up with fried chicken?

Maybe Skandi had the same thought about the voltage.

Chicken wire would not be that hard to use instead of an electric fence for the lower part of the fence.

If you had enough strands and/or you had the right breed of chicken and/or you make the inside attractive enough... sure :)

Keeping chickens in an area they want to get out of is difficult at best. I have 4 foot poultry electric netting from Premier1, and I have learned a lot over the last year of use. Mainly, that the fence is a guideline. I got black australorps partially because they are big framed chickens and aren't supposed to fly as much as the smaller breeds. Maybe they don't, but they do fly over the fence if they want. Generally speaking they stay inside the net, but if their water gets knocked over early in the day, or they get spooked, or I don't move them frequently enough to keep busy with new grasshoppers, all of a sudden the outside becomes more attractive, and I might come back to 5 or 6 chickens out. I had 18 week old chickens who could still fit through the fence if they wanted. In fact, I have 1 runt now, that can get through if she gets scared. In my experience the electricity is more about keeping predators out than chickens in. The electricity seems to have little effect on the chickens. Their feathers insulate them, so unless they happen to get their comb or wattles on the wires... it doesn't shock them.

This is all with a netting specifically built for poultry. I think the key is going to be getting a heavier breed for less flying (less tall fence needed) and the strands can be a little farther apart than a smaller leghorn or bantam. The key seems to be keeping them content enough inside the area so getting out is more effort than it is worth to get out.

All of this is assuming a smaller area that gets moved around. If you are going to fence in an acre at a time, it may not be as big of a deal. Put the chicken coop in the middle of the area, and the chickens will be less likely (not 100%, but less likely) to not stray as far from it.