Electric Fence Charger on a Feeder Pen?

[knighttime]

Has anyone tried to charge the entire feed pen before? I don't necessarily know how these things work but it seems like you'd need a pretty powerful unit to keep a strong current through the entire network of cattle panels unlike a single strand. Curious as I have a huge coon issue that I can't dedicate enough time to getting under control, so I was thinking since their only access to my feeder pens, unless they parachute in, is through the pen panels. Figured I could charge that sucker up and at least give them a challenge!

[whitetailfanatic]

I’d only do a strand along the bottom but believe it might alert any deer, I’d try to coon proof feeder 1st

[PYBUCK]

Golden nugget flybait mixed with fresca. They won't make it out of the pen.

[oktx]

Most solar chargers will be plenty hot enough to do a feed pen, they will make a wire hot for a long way. However, if a deer gets popped buy a wire, I don’t know if they will be back.

[knighttime]

I’d only do a strand along the bottom but believe it might alert any deer, I’d try to coon proof feeder 1st

Alert? Don't they make like a clicking noise when they charge? I would try to coon proof it but it's a free choice feeder about 36" off the ground and I swear one coon climbs on the others so he can reach it.

Golden nugget flybait mixed with fresca. They won't make it out of the pen.

I may or may not know what you're referring to... mine prefer big red! I'm not a fan of leaving it or them out for very long though.

Most solar chargers will be plenty hot enough to do a feed pen, they will make a wire hot for a long way. However, if a deer gets popped buy a wire, I don’t know if they will be back.

Yeah that's a good point and those lazy suckers hit it all of the time!

[Walker]

You can't charge the pen if it's touching the ground.

[6.5 shooter]

I did, just to keep cows out of the cotton seed. Had cattle panels for the ground, and ran a top wire around the outside of the t-post.

[sharpstick35]

the hot wire has to be insulated from the ground so the animal completes the circuit through their body. I have seen it done on the varmint cages on the feeder itself.

[Drycreek3189]

Someone used to sell a unit to charge your varmint guard. I have no idea if it worked well or not.

[Aggies96]

I put 2 strands of hot wire along the bottom - about 4" and at 10". Keeps pigs and most of the coons out (smart ones learn to jump onto the panel). Maybe try a 3rd wire at 16". To charge the whole cattle panel ring would be extremely hard as each panel needs to be isolated from the ground and the fence posts. You can just put some 4" PVC pipe around the legs or just bolt 2-6" diameter sheet metal wheels sandwiching the legs about 4' off the ground (they can't past these as they'll spin when they try). Don't get the 'shark teeth' strips... they only work against the wussy coons.

[crxshooter]

I had a DC charger from her attempt to garden. I use a 12 feeder battery and a solar charger. The wire runs thru those porcelain wire hangars on the square tubing I use for the legs and it grounds itself that way. And it works, boy, does it work.

[Lynn21]

Couple things I heard that work-put slinky’s on each leg, another one- put big Circumference PVC pipe on each leg. Good luck.

[knighttime]

Yeah I couldn’t remember how those things worked electronically but makes sense since they have a ground wire and a hot wire. Might just run a double wire setup on the outside of the pen as mentioned earlier. And thanks for all of the feeder leg ideas although that’s not my problem.


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[Shane]

You can't charge the pen if it's touching the ground.

Exactly. Whatever you have the charger to has to be insulated/ungrounded, or it won't shock anything.