Badger proof electric fence

[wheresthedog]

Hi,

I'm needing to badger proof a field. I've got the fencing sorted but I am loath to put in full mesh or solid gates to keep them out.

Has anyone ever hooked up a standard galv steel field gate and electrified it as part of their electric fencing?

Cheers!

 

[Dry Rot]

No, but thinking of ewes and lambs coming in soon. A standard 2.5mm HT electric wire fence persuaded badgers to find another watering hole. They had made a track to a small pond, presumably to drink. When the fence was switched back on, they went elsewhere. It was not a deliberate anti-badger act on my part, I just switched the fence on when I re-stocked the field. For odd holes, I am thinking electrified sheep netting which has kept foxes away from chicken runs where they had dug into in previous years. Provided the net is insulated from the gate, I think it would work, but of course you would have to move the net every time you used the gate. Why not a steel wire between the bottom bars with insulators each end? With perhaps some redundant quarry conveyor belting on the lower bars to insulate the hot wires?

 

[Bury the Trash]

They really don't like a decent power electric fence but are canny enough to find a gap or break.

Just idea from quick thought how about a wire as a bottom rail of the gate so to speak, hang it on with insulators and keep it live from the hinge end of the gate
Gate would need to have a gap underneath for the wire to fill of course without it dragging in the ground .wooden gate would be better than steel as well infact on a wooden one you could prob easily add another live wire or so easier to fix insulators to as well

 

[wheresthedog]

They really don't like a decent power electric fence but are canny enough to find a gap or break.

Just idea from quick thought how about a wire as a bottom rail of the gate so to speak, hang it on with insulators and keep it live from the hinge end of the gate
Gate would need to have a gap underneath for the wire to fill of course without it dragging in the ground .wooden gate would be better than steel as well infact on a wooden one you could prob easily add another live wire or so easier to fix insulators to as well

Yeah that'd work. Maybe with something like this on the bottom bar of a steel gate?

 

[som farmer]

pity you can't connect to the mains, they would only try once, permanent cure.

in a zone, so not many about, buggers just starting to dig, in the middle of a field plenty of disused setts about.