Please Help with Resources to Learn Paddock Design + Advice on How Much $ to Spend on Components

I'm thinking about putting hair sheep in a densely planted silvopasture setting. I want to do rotational grazing to help eliminate parasite problems. I don't want to be setting up, taking down and moving electric polywire or electronets everyday or even every few days. Ideally I'd like to plan out 10 or so equally-sized paddocks on a couple hectares of our landscape and setup all the paddocks at once with polywire or polytape and run everything with one charger. I know there are those little plastic handles with hooks that you can use as gates, so I just want to open the gates and herd the sheep into the next paddock.

This would save a lot of time, because we wouldn't have to reel in polywire, move fence posts, and set up a new paddock everytime we want to rotate the sheep.

Lastly, Do you need to go with the big name chargers and materials? In Peru we have Picana (brand from Argentina), a local Peruvian company that I had never heard of, and one official distributor of Gallagher (famous brand from New Zealand). I've heard Gallagher is the "best" but it's also the most expensive. In my other thread someone stated that lightning kills their chargers about once every 2-3 years, so not sure it's worth spending more money on this sort of technology.

Scott,

Fencing is kind of a personal issue and it sounds like you have figured out what you want.  I like wire for permanent paddocks (especially high tensile).  If you have a couple small spools of polywire and a few temporary posts you can turn your 10 paddocks into 30 or 100 pretty easy if you want to and have five or ten minutes to spare.  I never have spent the big money for the Gallagher.  I'm guessing the Argentine grazers know a little about electric fences.  Just look at the reviews and I guess you'll sort out what will work for you.  In my opinion insulators and the ground rods are very important.  Also some chargers have replaceable fuses for lightning protection and they can save a charger several times before a massive strike takes out your charger.

I have also read your posts on the other thread on electric fences.  I've lost maybe two chargers to lightning in the last 40 years.  I have three going constantly now.  For solar I like the Parmak Magnum 12 volt.  I can't say it's the best but I like them.  For grid powered I've had International, Parmak, Zareba, and others.  I've read poor reviews on the Zareba but mine lasted 10 years powering several miles of fence before a lightning strike got it along with an oven in our house and submersible pump in the waterwell.  It may be cost prohibitive to order from the U.S. but I've liked some products from Powerflexfence.com,  Their end strainer with built in insulator is awesome.  For rebar or round rod posts I like the black Red Snapper insulators that fit different sizes of posts.  They are very similar to the RP14 on the powerflex site.  I think other companies make something similar.  I realize you don't have Tractor Supply stores there but I buy my high tensile wire from them and save about 60 dollars a roll.  In other words I look at the websites to get a wish list and then sometimes find similar products cheaper and closer to home.  I have barbed wire perimeter fence but inside the property it's all electric.  

Hi Scott,
What you are describing sounds great... though somewhat expensive up front, compared to moving fences. I would suggest making the fences as temporary as possible to start with, so you can adjust things after you actually get the sheep in there. What you think is a good size or shape might change once they have grazed it a few times. I would also get two chargers if possible. Even if you are only using one at a time, it would be good to have the backup in case one dies.

Here is a video from Joel Salatin talking about a paddock system for pigs. I know you are going for sheep, but some of the principles might apply, and there are some nuggets about electric fencing in there as well.