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livestock electrified fencing?

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Rod M1

02-20-2005 08:50:02




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Has anyone used this for killing mice and rates? Will it kill cat-sized animals? What about me bumping into it? It there a cheaper version in the $50 range available?




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Rod M1

02-23-2005 19:05:43




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 Re: livestock electrified fencing? in reply to Rod M1, 02-20-2005 08:50:02  
Thanks!



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Kendall

02-21-2005 06:13:23




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 Re: livestock electrified fencing? in reply to Rod M1, 02-20-2005 08:50:02  
I bought the cheapest fence charger that Home Depot had to mangage my hound dogs. I found a dead mouse on it one time. It happen to get on the wire and screened in porch at the same time. So I'd say even a cheap charger will kill mice if you fix it were they can complete the circuit to ground.



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Joe C AL

02-20-2005 18:20:09




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 Re: livestock electrified fencing? in reply to Rod M1, 02-20-2005 08:50:02  
I have found an owl and several opossums on my fence the owl was holding to fence with foot while standing on ground. opossum had fence in mouth . I have had it to cut smal trees in two an set feild on fire. Back when it was new it cost less than 15.00.



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RayP(MI)

02-20-2005 14:30:07




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 Re: livestock electrified fencing? in reply to Rod M1, 02-20-2005 08:50:02  
I suppose that a weed-burner type fencer would do a pretty good job on mice and rat sized creatures. If a cat should come in contact with the full force of one they'd sure be in for a rough night too! Years ago we had an owl get caught between the electrified top wire, and the bottom grounded wire on our barbed wire fence, and it was stuck there for an undetermined length of time. Our fencer was a simple AC transformer, not the pulse type common to most all systems now, so that owl was stuck getting continuous shocking until it was discovered. Dad kept it in the corn crib for several days before it was strong enough to venture out on it's own again. Must have been a terrible experience for the owl!

With the advent of pulse type fencers, it is most likely that the owl would have been able to get free of the fence between pulses, although those pulses would be a heckofa jolt.

One of the dumber things my dad did was a electric mouse trap along a runway the mice used frequently. He suspended two electrodes about a mouse width apart above the runway, each connected to one side of the 110v mains. I was pretty little at the time, and don't remember whether it was very successful - but the building is still standing!

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Pitch

02-20-2005 13:37:04




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 Re: livestock electrified fencing? in reply to Rod M1, 02-20-2005 08:50:02  
Never heard of an electric fence killing anything They use DC power lot of volts but low amperage (or is it the other way around)I suppose it is possible for it to kill something as small as a mouse but why? If you grab hold of one you won't ever do it again but it dang sure won't kill you or there would be dead critters layin all over the place. Do you have a herd of mice corraled someplace that you don't like?
If you want to kill eclectrically try modifing and baiting one of those bug zappers. Probably wouldn't smell that good but hey the Heck.

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RustyFarmall

02-20-2005 14:20:35




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 Re: livestock electrified fencing? in reply to Pitch , 02-20-2005 13:37:04  
Electric fences most definately WILL KILL small animals. Grasshoppers are blown apart almost immediately, small birds can't take any more than one jolt, and chickens will eventually succumb if they become tangled in it. I have even found dead rabbits underneath an electric fence. A cat or small dog doesn't stand much of a chance either if they can't get away from it. I really don't like finding the dead birds under the fence, but I don't like the raccons raiding my sweet corn patch either. By the way, the fencer I use is a very low powered unit. It will not even burn weeds.

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Rod M1

02-20-2005 17:19:55




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 Re: livestock electrified fencing? in reply to RustyFarmall, 02-20-2005 14:20:35  
RustyFarmall what model would you recomend for mice?



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RustyFarmall

02-21-2005 05:34:41




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 Re: livestock electrified fencing? in reply to Rod M1, 02-20-2005 17:19:55  
Any fence controller that runs on 120 Volt A.C. should do the trick. Get the least expensive one you can find. Just be sure of one thing, some of the really inexpensive models do not pulse, they send out a continous charge. These are dangerous, could start fires. Get one that pulses.



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Rod M1

02-20-2005 09:48:22




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 Re: livestock electrified fencing? in reply to Rod M1, 02-20-2005 08:50:02  
I wont to use an electrified cattle fence to kill mice.



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xragman

02-20-2005 09:31:43




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 Re: livestock electrified fencing? in reply to Rod M1, 02-20-2005 08:50:02  
use what? your link took me to T/S wire page.



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