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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: funkyfish on December 13, 2011, 01:25:17 pm

Title: Electric netting help
Post by: funkyfish on December 13, 2011, 01:25:17 pm

Mover the poultry netting at the weekend, now it's not working. New batteries, tension fine, nothing touching, clip gives a good shock ( husband checed it) but when attached to he fence, nothing. Can't see why, contact looks ok- any ideas? Worried bout visits from the fox....

Title: Re: Electric netting help
Post by: robert waddell on December 13, 2011, 01:54:51 pm

are you sure it is not touching at some point    i/we have spent days checking our fence only to find it touching a bit of rylock you feel so bloody stupid after finding it :farmer:

Title: Re: Electric netting help
Post by: princesspiggy on December 13, 2011, 08:01:42 pm

is ur earth in properly and deep enough?

Title: Re: Electric netting help
Post by: Nanzilela on December 15, 2011, 03:25:54 pm

Quite often one (or more) of the lines gets caught on the spike of the net so effectively grounding the net. Follow the second bottom line - it must not touch anything except the plastic post. If it touches the steel spike it will stop the net working.
The bottom line does not matter, it may touch the ground as it has no electrical filaments in it.

Title: Re: Electric netting help
Post by: funkyfish on December 17, 2011, 07:40:03 pm

Thanks gUys for the replies! After several hours of faffing, have bought sheep netting and put round outside of chicken netting and electrified it. Energiser alteast working ok! Never getting poultry netting again! Evil stuff!!!!!