Re: Can animals hear an electric fence?

Posted by RayP(MI) on December 30, 2006 at 17:15:29 from (207.241.138.131):

In Reply to: Re: Can animals hear an electric fence? posted by Allan In NE on December 30, 2006 at 15:58:44:

Wellllll, when I was a kid, we used to test the fencer by using a piece of grass stem, and placing the end on the fence and pushing it toward the fence, shortening the length of the stem until we felt a tingle. I have seen cows check out an electric fence in a similar manner by using a long whisker near their nose, get a tingle, walk away - no tingle, help yourself to whatever was growing on the other side of the fence! Have also seen a cow but another into the fence, to try to break it down - once down, help yourself to whatever was growing on the other side. We did have a continuously charged electric fence (transformer powered), not a pulsed unit, so there was always power on the wire. I suspect that any short circuit on either type would cause arcing on points of the fence, such as a bad insulator, or weed on the wire. I have no doubt that a animal could hear that arcing, and if intellegent enough, would learn to steer clear of an energized fence.

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