Electric tape?

[christy_was_here]

Does or has anyone used electric tape or rope instead of wire? Is it ok for goats? I was thinking it might be good for visibility, both goat AND human.

 

[ksalvagno]

Do you mean as a whole fence or just as a single wire running the bottom?

I would say if you want it to be the whole fence, won't keep a goat in. If you already have good fencing and just using it for extra, might be ok.

 

[christy_was_here]

No I was gonna use it around the top and at nose height on a field fence.

 

[ksalvagno]

You could certainly try it. I've never used it myself.

 

[GrowURown]

I don't know about goats, but it DEFINITELY DOES NOT STOP A HORSE...we have a mare that LAUGHS at the electric tape, then SLIDES UNDER IT to get to the fruit trees...actually now it's the wire, so no more of that...but she would just slid her head under the tape and over the fence, reach out, grab a branch and pull it back in with her...my vote is NO FOREVER on the tape now!

 

[patandchickens]

Sorry, but "definitely does not stop a horse" makes ZERO sense... electricity is electricity, no matter what it's going thru.

I will betcha anything that your problem is the fact that electric tape (especially the cheaper stuff) has MUCH more electrical resistance than just wire does, therefore if your charger is "struggling" it may have enough zap to stop a horse with just wire but not enough with tape.

But if you have 3,000 v (as per an accurate fence tester) going thru your wire and your tape I *guarantee* they will both work the same.

This is the reason for getting, and using, a good DIGITAL fence tester not one of the five-neon-lights jobbies (which are just too inaccurate)

Pat

 

[cmjust0]

I've used the polytwine quite a bit for cross fencing and stuff like that.. It's more expensive than 17ga aluminum, but it's actually *re-usable* which makes it nice..

And yeah, it's more visible...and it works. from me.

 

[christy_was_here]

I've used the polytwine quite a bit for cross fencing and stuff like that.. It's more expensive than 17ga aluminum, but it's actually *re-usable* which makes it nice..

And yeah, it's more visible...and it works. from me.

I think I'm gonna do with the twine or rope stuff. Thanks for the advice!

 

[cmjust0]

I really like the visibility part of it, btw.. It's helpful with babies. I've seen babies get a little lost before and mama's maybe on the other side of a hi-tensile cross-fenced section or something like that.. Whereas they should go around, they tend to get a lil excited, not see the hi-tensile, and go *through*..

More than once, I've seen babies get "clotheslined" that way.. It's painful to watch, and they generally get shocked to boot..

 

[Be Bop N Bubba]

Ive used tape, wire and poly rope and had great success. BUT.... i have trained my animals to it, as per teachings of my dad. each goat one at a time put out and put a pan of grain just out of reah and let them "test" the fence (kinda cruel I know) and they learn Fast! I kept my Bull in only three strands of poly rope and Never had a problem, trained him the same way. They learn to respect it and leave it alone.