posted 11 years ago
I use electric netting to secure my goats. Its incredibly frustrating to set up, I mean really really frustrating. Its heavy, so you can't lug it around easy(mines 165 ft) the poles do not stick in the ground easy at all, and it will catch every twig and snag on anything an 1/8 inch or bigger. I'm not sure what the previous poster was talking about killing animals. Electric fences do not kill animals, its a high voltage low amperage circuit, I regularly touch mine just to make sure its on, it only psychologically keeps the animals in because they don't understand what it is, they could actually leave at any time with no ill effects if they were inclined to. I use a 6 volt parmac solar charger with my netting. Works good but if I were to do it again, I would not waste money on netting its too big of a pain. And around here, I have to watch out for owls and hawks eating my chickens, so I couldnt free range them in a fence anyway, they have to be locked up.