A good check list for your Fox Fence - 15th Jan 2008
It is essential that you manage your electric fox fences to maintain thier efficiency.
Keeping Foxes and Badgers away from farrowing paddocks is essential to reduce numbers of missing piglets. This quick guide can be used to check your fence on a regular basis.
Your
check list should include:
-
Grass growth leaning on the lower fence
strands.
-
Check
insulators are not cracked or damaged.
- Any
sagging or broken wire
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Any rusty
wire
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Poor joins in
wire
-
Inadequate
energiser for your fence length
-
Insufficient
earthing
-
Tractor ruts under the
gateways.