Maintaining an electric fence involves regular inspection and testing to ensure adequate voltage, with primary tasks focusing on managing vegetation, checking connections, and verifying the grounding system. Regular Inspection (Daily/Weekly) Initial Period: Check daily for the first week after installation to ensure animals learn to avoid it. Routine Checks: Thereafter, a weekly inspection is...

The reason for an Electric Fence Tester. An electric fence tester is essential if you have, or are planning to install an electric fence. The fence is there to prevent a hungry predator from feasting on you favourite animals. Similarly, if it is there to keep your domestic stock in...

Vegetation growing up into an Electric Fence will significantly affect the performance of the fence in several ways. Power Drain. -When grass, weeds or branches touch the electric fence, they are green and full of moisture so create a path for electricity to leak into the ground. this reduces the...

A perennial question is asked and often requires a careful review. An answer is not always that simple. 1/. Horses are Gregarious animals and are naturally inclined to seek other animals to create a herd. This is not new and has been bred into them over centuries. Horses are prey animals...

Foxes are one of the greatest nightmares of any chicken breeder. It almost seems like you can’t evade them no matter how much you try because of their animal intelligence and acute hearing skills, but you should be smarter. Your chickens can’t lay good eggs or have meaty carcasses if they...