Thanks for the input!
The energiser is a Helios 8 with solar pannel built in. It says it should run 2x 100m poultry nets or several sheep nets.
One of the nets has a 2m metal pole pushed almost all the way into the ground, tho other has a shorter pole so will look into that. Got 7000kv off them in the summer- charge lasted about 3 weeks then would turn it off during the day on a sunny day and it would be fully charged. have tried just one net and no different. Can't test the clip with the tester we have (the dog chewed up the right shaped tester, now have a hand over type one).
Now have the sheep net on a leisure battery with solar pannel attached. Had 5000kv off it in September but struggle to get 1000kv now.
Am thinking that maybe our charger is faulty, its a cheap Halfords one. Maybe it doesn't fully charge the battery?