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greengumbo

  • Joined Feb 2015
  • Aberdeenshire
quick question about electric tape for fence.....
« on: May 09, 2015, 07:51:49 pm »
Stupid question but I have a huge drum of tape and dont want to deploy the whole lot. Do I need to cut what I want to deploy or can I hang the drum and turn on the energiser ?

Setting up tonight so any quick reply is brilliant !

oaklandspigs

  • Joined Nov 2009
  • East Sussex
    • OaklandsPigs
Re: quick question about electric tape for fence.....
« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2015, 08:59:14 pm »
both - as long as the tape on the drum doesn't touch anything it is fine to leave it on the drum !
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greengumbo

  • Joined Feb 2015
  • Aberdeenshire
Re: quick question about electric tape for fence.....
« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2015, 10:07:19 pm »
Cheers !

I know have a fully operational battle stati.......er pig fence.

Pig-day minus 6

:)

HappyHippy

  • Guest
Re: quick question about electric tape for fence.....
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2015, 10:08:01 am »
Are the pigs already trained to an electric fence? If not, you'd be best to set up an area with something solid behind the tape (pallets /stock fence) so that their first shock sends them backwards and not forward through the fence (defeating the whole exercise  ;)) a training pen, if you like.
Good luck  :thumbsup:

greengumbo

  • Joined Feb 2015
  • Aberdeenshire
Re: quick question about electric tape for fence.....
« Reply #4 on: May 16, 2015, 10:25:37 pm »
Well they shot forward not backward and got a few hundred yards down the road !

Set up a fence around them now and they have been zapped 4 or 5 times and are going backwards now.


 

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