There are often queries as to how long an Electric Fence energiser will last for and it is difficult to give a quantitative response. I know of energisers being active well in excess of 10 years but it does depend on how the energiser is housed and if it is...

A concerned customer who had moved his  31-year-old gelding to a new boarding facility six days ago contacted me for an opinion. The farm owner put him in outdoor pen with electric fence tape, which he's never seen before. He hit it, freaked out, ran to other side of the...

Growing up in the middle of Africa we were a tight knit community who played and drank together. One of my compatriots was a cattle rancher who dabbled with paints - pretty good at it truth be told. He supplemented his operations by becoming a professional hunter until that operation...

An email was received requesting help on why a fox had been able to penetrate an electric netting system and slaughter 150 hens. 150 hens taken by one fox is quite a catastrophe and by far the largest we have come across. The image below indicates the scale of the...

A love-sick monkey desperate to flee her enclosure to be with her mate has learned how to short circuit an electric fence - with a wet blade of GRASS. Bella, a Sulawesi crested black macaque, was left distraught after zookeepers removed dominant male Malino from her pen. She and a...