Uppity Hen discovered what the two wires along the top of the fence do… 🤣😂

[KilroyJC]

Four years ago, we fenced in about an acre around our house, wood posts & crosspieces with cyclone fence, about 5’ to 6’ high, depending on the grounds terrain. I put a solar fence controller and wire around the entire perimeter, atop the fence and two rows along the side, with additional ground rows between/adjacent. This was done more as a big “F U” to the contiguous lot owners (HOA BS - I refuse to diminish the word “neighbor” by applying it to them), but has also had the added benefit of keeping various other critters (raccoon/opossum/cats) out, and occasionally a squirrel gets careless and hilarity ensues.

back in May, we decided to get chickens, and we let them free-range after the hawks are gone for the day (right now that is after 3:30 PM). About two weeks ago, one of our hens has taken to getting up on things: she hops up on my sawhorses, she jumped up on a metal firewood carrier and knock it over in a big commotion, etc.

Yesterday, I was working outside cutting some unistrut with a grinder when there was this horrid commotion that I could hear over the grinder hitting - I stop and go to look and one of the hens is coming over the rise and screaming her head off and doing that half-running/half-flying thing all the way across the driveway and into the underbrush where she goes and hides. Another hen comes over the rise, but with far less drama and flailing, probably saying, “I don’t know what happened, but I don’t want to find out, so I am leaving!”

after checking that there were no dead chickens from some unknown predator or any snakebites, the only thing that makes sense is that Miss High-And-Flighty decided to jump up on the fence (because there is a steep slope and it would have been an easy jump from about 8 feet away to where the top of the fence would be level) and got a couple thousand volts of ”You shouldn’t be up here” up her posterior. . .

yet another $10,000 video missed

 

[5030]

Never whizz on an electric fence either......

 

[Oaktree]

Never whizz on an electric fence either......

Or touch it with a milkweed pod in your hand...

 

[npalen]

Four years ago, we fenced in about an acre around our house, wood posts & crosspieces with cyclone fence, about 5’ to 6’ high, depending on the grounds terrain. I put a solar fence controller and wire around the entire perimeter, atop the fence and two rows along the side, with additional ground rows between/adjacent. This was done more as a big “F U” to the contiguous lot owners (HOA BS - I refuse to diminish the word “neighbor” by applying it to them), but has also had the added benefit of keeping various other critters (raccoon/opossum/cats) out, and occasionally a squirrel gets careless and hilarity ensues.

back in May, we decided to get chickens, and we let them free-range after the hawks are gone for the day (right now that is after 3:30 PM). About two weeks ago, one of our hens has taken to getting up on things: she hops up on y sawhorses, she jumped up on a metal firewood carrier and knocker it over in a big commotion, etc.

Yesterday, I was working outside cutting some unistrut with a grinder when there was this horrid commotion that I could hear over the grinder hitting - I stop and go to look and one of the hens is coming over the rise and screaming her head off and doing that half-running/half-flying thing all the way across the driveway and into the underbrush where she goes and hides. Another hen comes over the rise, but with far less drama and flailing, probably swing “I don’t know what happened, but I don’t want to find out, so I am leaving!”

after checking that there were no dead chickens from some unknown predator or any snakebites, the only thing that makes sense is that Miss High-And-Flighty decided to jump up on the fence (because there is a steep slope and it would have been an easy jump from about 8 feet away to where the top of the fence would be level) and got a couple thousand volts of ”You shouldn’t be up here” up her posterior. . .

yet another $10,000 video missed

Hilarious story! Made my day.

 

[KilroyJC]

Hilarious story! Made my day.

Glad to help

 

[KilroyJC]

Never whizz on an electric fence either......

Will Rogers had a good line about that…

 

[oosik]

Many, many years ago I installed a half mile of electric fence. Temporary until I had time for permanent barbed wire. I had a little, cheep-O electric fence tester. It seemed to indicate - no voltage.

So.....out of pure frustration I grabbed the wire. REALLY BIG MISTAKE. It didn't knock me down on my butt - however it was close. The @#$% tester went in the garbage.

 

[5030]

We NEVER used barbed wire when we had cattle, always 12 gage high tensile with 2 hot wires between. Barbed wire tears up cattle hides and noses.

 

[oosik]

Interesting - 5030. Out this way it's alway four strands of barbed wire on T-133 or T-145 posts. Your combination sounds more like what would be used for horses.

I have a mile and a half of barbed wire around my property. It's called EVERSHARP and after 40 years it WILL do a job on anybody/anything trying to blunder thru the fence. My posts are T-145.

 

[Jstpssng]

I HATE barbed wire! It keeps working, long after the original purpose is gone. It’s not at all uncommon to find 100 year old sections grown into trees… and you don’t have to look hard to find pieces of fur where some animal has gotten snagged on it. Barbed wire cuts can be nasty.

The orchard I used to work at had a wire fence around it, from around WWI: two tiers of 4 foot page wire, topped with two strand barbed. Over the last 100 years the page wire has mostly rotted away while the barbed wire has sagged; there are sections of barbed wire right at neck height, waiting to snag some unsuspecting animal or apple tree pruner.