Re: [blackbelly] Any luck with electric fencing?

2007-04-16 Thread Carr DuPuy
PM To: blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] Re: [blackbelly] Any luck with electric fencing? We run 5 strands high tensile. All hot. High power fencer. By the way, if they 'jump thru ' the fence , they are not 'grounded ' and don't get any shock. Just like a bird can

Re: [blackbelly] Any luck with electric fencing?

2007-04-16 Thread Stephanie Parrish
@lists.blackbellysheep.info Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 9:02 PM Subject: Re: [blackbelly] Any luck with electric fencing? We have electric fencing 5 strands of it. And all very hot. But we also have 3 escape artists who wait until between pulses and jump right through the fence. They get

Re: [blackbelly] Any luck with electric fencing?

2007-04-16 Thread Stephanie Jones
- From: helen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 9:02 PM Subject: Re: [blackbelly] Any luck with electric fencing? We have electric fencing 5 strands of it. And all very hot. But we also have 3 escape artists who wait until between

Re: [blackbelly] Any luck with electric fencing?

2007-04-16 Thread Onalee Israel, Onalee's Home Grown Seeds
We use goat/sheep wire on the perimeter of the property but electric fence within the perimeter to make different pastures and keep them off our garden and yard. This works for MOST of the sheep but we have had some lambs that, even if doused with water, just went right under it. We even doused

[blackbelly] Any luck with electric fencing?

2007-04-15 Thread Chris Eileen
What's your opinion on fencing? Have you had luck containing your sheep with electric fencing? Did you use all hot wires or alternate the hot ground wires? Thanks! Eileen ___ This message is from the blackbelly mailing list Visit the list's

Re: [blackbelly] Any luck with electric fencing?

2007-04-15 Thread helen
We have electric fencing 5 strands of it. And all very hot. But we also have 3 escape artists who wait until between pulses and jump right through the fence. They get a shock now and then but they don't seem to mind it. All 3 going through at the same time seemed to sort of distribute the