What battery energiser for vermin?

Sandpit Farm

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Livestock Farmer
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Derbyshire
I have partridge pens and badgers/foxes. I want to keep them separate. I have run a wire at snuffling height around the perimeter of the pens. What energiser (battery) is best for fox/badgers or are most sheep type energisers ok? It is a fair investment, the birds I have in there so I'd happily buy a new one for the job. I have an old energiser on there at the mo and my wildlife camera has picked up badgers very close to it and seem unbothered.

Thanks
 

Bury the Trash

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Mixed Farmer
Same as for strong livestock/sheep get a modern high power ( joule ) full on one, and with no namby pamby (ease off when its touched by something fancey circuitry )
Some modern battery ones are really good, they need a big capacity 100 plus amp /h to fuel them mind you, what can help that is a solar panel and charge regulator, so it recharges the battery at least through the day.
might be something here ,others sell them though.

Take trouble over the wire and earthing as well. if you can use 2.5mm ht steel wire .

trouble is the wire needs to be low to the ground, and fairly close together else it might be pertinant to put one wire in thats not live but earthed. because theyre like sheep with their wool what with their fur coat .
maybe put a peanut or 2 or smear peanut butter or something on or near a live wire to get that little moisty nose snuffling up close....then.................
,,,,,,,,,,CRACK :oops::ROFLMAO:

he wont do that again in a hurry ......
 

Nick.

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Arable Farmer
Location
Kenilworth
As above the biggest fencer you can get. Most important part is the earth.

Run 2 strands about 8” apart (vertically) bottom one about 6” off the ground.
I quite often run a single strand at 90° to the perimeter wire. It’ll stop foxes/dogs etc chasing around the pen.
 

zero

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Yorkshire coast
We have electric sheep netting around our chickens. Any fence unit that has a picture of a cow or bigger on the box will do the job, and a big ish 12v solar panel helps keep the battery topped up.
A meter wide strip of kerb sprayed under wire helps keep grass down for a good few weeks.
 
Some of the energisers are only 0.5mj which would barely tickle a mouse in dry weather.

This 3.2 looks like the Daddy, especially against something with 4 feet and a wet nose.


Our chicken pen has 50m of netting with an energiser on the mains, with a long extension lead from the garage, it clicks constantly as the net earths and certainly made the spaniel's ears stand on end last week when she touched it with her nose.
 

Pasty

Member
Location
Devon
I had the biggest (I think) MVF one and that really packed a punch. Foxes are like dogs. They only need a whack once and they will avoid.
 

Bury the Trash

Member
Mixed Farmer
Some of the energisers are only 0.5mj which would barely tickle a mouse in dry weather.

This 3.2 looks like the Daddy, especially against something with 4 feet and a wet nose.


Our chicken pen has 50m of netting with an energiser on the mains, with a long extension lead from the garage, it clicks constantly as the net earths and certainly made the spaniel's ears stand on end last week when she touched it with her nose.
That energiser is very expensive for what it is. That Joule figure says its stored energy, so its not actual real life output , which will be a fair bit lower.
as compared to this
https://www.electric-fence.co.uk/vo...ins-energiser-mains-adapter-not-included.html
which actually will give 5 joules as output ,see its written in the details.
it will also run from the mains with an adaptor/transformer as in here ie 12v/mains energiser
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none of this stuff is rocket science and its all out there for all to see and search for.
 
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