Sheep and electric fence

[Mc115reed]

Basically iv 150 lambs on a patch of grazing atm and my minion who was in charge of swapping the battery’s forgot so missed a swap out.... lambs all escaped... and now I cant keep the little t**ts in anymore... 4 strands! Of poly, posts 6 strides apart, fence giving out 7kw anywhere I test... and within 5 minutes of me returning the escapees too there field they will run straight through the fence and into the next field....

Short of sending 70% of the lambs store and saving myself a headache is there anything I can do that I’m missing??

 

[unlacedgecko]

Basically iv 150 lambs on a patch of grazing atm and my minion who was in charge of swapping the battery’s forgot so missed a swap out.... lambs all escaped... and now I cant keep the little t**ts in anymore... 4 strands! Of poly, posts 6 strides apart, fence giving out 7kw anywhere I test... and within 5 minutes of me returning the escapees too there field they will run straight through the fence and into the next field....

Short of sending 70% of the lambs store and saving myself a headache is there anything I can do that I’m missing??

Watch them and identify the ring leaders. Catch them and hobble. This will slow them down so they can't dive through the fence.

Spent a day watching them and put back immediately with the dog any that come through the fence.

 

[SteveHants]

Wire may help as opposed to nylon, but whenever it's happened to me, the only thing that has stopped it is moving the fence along onto fresh grazing.

 

[Mc115reed]

Wire may help as opposed to nylon, but whenever it's happened to me, the only thing that has stopped it is moving the fence along onto fresh grazing.

Put them onto a new patch today in hope they’ll forget how to escape so I’ll be hopeful then haha

 

[SteveHants]

Put them onto a new patch today in hope they’ll forget how to escape so I’ll be hopeful then haha

Preferably on the bit they were escaping to. That seems to confuse them....

 

[davieh3350]

I used electric rabbit net (not connected) just on the other side of the wire to stop mine walking straight through when I was training them, held them tight against the wire with the dog so that they got a shock.

 

[som farmer]

1 strand as an earth line, should give them a better shock, or move fence in closer to field edge, to make them hesitate before jumping. failing that, wire it to the mains !!!!!

 

[Paul E]

Tie your minion to the fence for a while.
It won't keep the lambs in.

But it won't happen again.

 

[Mc115reed]

Tie your minion to the fence for a while.
It won't keep the lambs in.

But it won't happen again.

Checked today and there still in [emoji16] just need too keep on top of changing battery’s and hopefully they’ll stay in for good lol