Page 18 - News

  1. Three Reel Systems Offer for 2016

    Three Reel Systems Offer for 2016

    Get organised with our Three Reel System offer!

    RRP £547.62 Offer Price £380.86*

    And read our 3 reel system Blog too

    We ran a fantastic offer on our premium three reel system last year and it was just so popular that we have decided to offer you it again this year! So you can now Keep Your Sheep in for less!! (or Pigs or Cattle ! )  :-)

    (We also wrote a blog on 3 Reel Systems some time ago and it goes so well with this amazing offer that we have taken the opportunity to resurrect

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  2. The Fence Tester

    The Fence Tester

    Hello All,

    So do you all check to see if your fences are working properly do you use a friend then wonder when you ask for help with a fencing problem do they suddenly become very busy or just find out when the animals have escaped that it is not....If you do check them how do you do it?

    Touch and jump back?

    Get someone else to?

    Or use a fence tester?

    If like me you are a wimp and use a tester ( the best option really) then this blog is for you.

    KV10 LED Tester   £21.60

    This is by far our most popular

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  3. Different gate setups

    Different gate setups

     

    We answer questions regularly on gateways, here are a few examples of different gateway openings for you.

    This time of year is when the poaching damage can be done, here are some examples that might help you with this problem.

    The Live Gateway

    As you can see there is rope across the gateway stopping the livestock from pushing through or using it as a scratching post and bending it making it more likely to bounce open.

    This means the field is protected from every angle should you have naughty livestock

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  4. Going on holidays and worries about battery life?

    Going on holidays and worries about battery life?

    Are you heading away on your holidays soon (lucky you) and are going to leave someone else in charge of the zoo? Are you worried about the length of your battery life and that your friend will have to lug the battery in to be charged?

    Well why not look at adding a solar panel to your set up? A fantastic way to lengthen the life of your battery. So instead of every few weeks having to cart the battery home to charge you will only be doing it approx 3 times a year(dependent on position to the sun)

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  5. Keep Hedgehogs and Frogs safe near netting

    Keep Hedgehogs and Frogs safe near netting

    Our Electric netting is absolutely fab for keeping your chickens safe from the foxes and other animals (badgers and rabbits) at bay !!

    Very occasionally though some of our favourite wildlife friends- hedgehogs and frogs - get caught against an electric netting and get injured or even worse. If you are using Electric netting, here are some tips to help keep your local hedgehogs, frogs and toads safe too.

    Hedgehogs, frogs and toads and their young are all on the move just now looking for food. When

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  6. Wandlite, light without mains power

    Wandlite, light without mains power

    So the nights have quickly closed in on us and once when we could head out and check the horses and stock after dinner without a torch has changed over night to bashed shins and foreheads.... Now not everyone is lucky enough to have power in the stables if you don't never fear this wandlite will suit you.

    How many times have you walked into the stables and realised you forgot the torch or that your batteries have run out? If you are like me the answer is the answer to TOO MANY times

    All you outdoor

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  7. Rabbit netting

    Rabbit netting

     

    Rabbits, such very cute little things aren't they

    UNTIL

    Peter here arrives in your veg patch and munches through the veg you have lovingly nurtured either for dinner or for the local show ....then he become a pest.

    Well never fear Leslie is here.......

     

    Electric Netting is highly effective in keeping rabbits away from specific areas such as crops, gardens, veg gardens, sports grounds, greens, newly laid turf and many farmers use it to protect their vulnerable newly sown vegetable plugs. It is

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  8. Exciting new website

    Exciting new website

    Yepee we Launch

    Well tomorrow launches our EXCITING NEW website.

    We have been working on this for some time to make it shiny and new but most importantly easy to use and shop.

    Electric Fencing Direct's New Website

    We hope you like it and continue to shop with us.

    Sign up to our news letter for any more up and coming changes or offers we put on.

    Also please be patient with us as its new for us and a whole new system behind it and it might take us a day or 2 to settle into it.

    We are still available

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  9. Strip Grazing, for Health & All Year Round Grass

    Strip Grazing, for Health & All Year Round Grass

    Strip Grazing, for Health & All Year Round Grass

    Horses

    So the time of year has come for the ponies to be let loose on new grass but we all have the moment of dread, just how much will they eat and how big will the waist line end up?

    Many of us think oh help... Laminitis... when we see the lush grass coming through and panic and suddenly remember the plan we had meant to execute over the winter period and buy a strip grazing kit to have ready for this exact moment and sadly it got forgotten until

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  10. What is needed to repel or contain animals

    What is needed to repel or contain animals

    Hi guys,

    We get asked over and over again, how much power do I need on my fence to keep x animal in or x animal out, below we go through what you need.

    So you are either protecting your animals/garden from predictors or keeping your animals in for their safety.

    What we will go through in this blog is the recommended Voltage per animal, recommended heights and earth and live lines also a quick guide line to field sizes.

    I hope you find this helpful.

    The recommended* Voltage to keep animals in/out

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