Does my electric fencing need to create a circuit?

This is a question we are asked a lot. For some reason it is a popular perception that electric fencing must connect back to itself.  We'd like to let you know that it is not necessary to do this… electric fences can run for miles in one direction if required.

However there is a circuit that does need to be created with an electric fencing system and that is to do with having a good earth. When an animal touches the electric fence it conducts the

Well hello! Clearish skys......12hr and 19 mins today between sunrise and sunset here in East Lothian and its welcomed by the singing of the birds and clucking of hens. Now I do not have hens myself but where I work there are 6 beauties roaming freeish and they are loving the sunlight, laying eggs and bathing in the dust - a lovely sight to see.

So after what feels like a long wet windy winter how is the your ground around your poultry netting gate? Churned up like a Clydesdale has ploughed through??

Carefree Hen Coops and Traditional Wooden Poultry Housing

If you are looking for a new hen house or chicken coop, maybe your coop is on its last legs or your flock is expanding... then you have come to the right place...we have two fantastic offers available in April ...

We have carefully sourced our poultry housing and have two different types available... the modern looking Carefree Coops and more traditional wooden housing...

Carefree Coops

Computer designed and precision manufactured housing

Great value tape, rope and posts on sale until stocks last.

Check out these amazing prices and sort out your strip grazing and paddock sub-division issues for less!  Click the green product links below to take you through to that product in our online shop.

Posts

***Green, white, blue or orange 1m premium plastic paddock posts - 18% off.  They were £15.24 and now only £12.38 for a pack of 10 posts! (on sale until 30th April 2014!)

AND

Rope & Tape

***'One Shock' Paddock Rope Green/White 6mm

This is my first blog post of many I hope:-).  I am new to Electric Fencing Direct ... my name is Leslie Sutherland.

I wasn't really sure how to start my first ever blog... so here goes I decided to write about something that I am interested in and something that I can give you information about to help you improve a situation.

Why does a horse start to crib?

The root cause of cribbing is stress and boredom. Wild horses do not crib, and spend up to 90% of their time grazing and searching for food.

We love it when a manufacturer comes up with a new product that ticks all the boxes.  The Raptor 80 really has everything you could need in an energiser (The Raptor Range consists of 4 energisers of differing capacity).  It is a new generation of smarter combination energisers created to make electric fencing easier to maintain and manage.

So what is new and so special about the Raptor 80? ...............

Raptor 80 Features

These three features make this energiser stand out from a very crowded

Are you planning on keeping a couple of weaners in the back garden or on the farm?  Need to keep them safe and secure?

Use an electric fence... See Alasdair's story and photos below:

Alasdair says - "these pigs are Oxford Sandy and Blacks (sow) crossed with a Mangalitsa (boar) - so they should be hardy for winter but will have to be careful they don't start putting on too much fat. Seem very happy in their pen - they have some trees to scratch and rub against and provide a bit of shelter, they

Sale Price

We just thought we should let you know that one of our most popular posts is now on sale until 28th February 2014 or until stocks last!  The Premium Paddock Plastic Post is now only £12.38 for a pack of 10 posts! (was £15.24)

It comes in four different colours - Blue, Green, Orange and White.  Overall length 1m - stands at about 90cm when pushed into the ground.  Has 8 fixings for wire, polywire, tape or rope.  The Premium Paddock Posts are made from heavy weight durable plastic.

Happy New Year to you all!

On our way along the north coast of Scotland - where surprisingly the weather was bright and sunny unlike most of southern UK - we spotted some new fencing.

So simple - one line of high tensile wire threaded through ring insulators to help protect and maintain a new stock fence.  If this line of electric fencing is maintained properly it will greatly increase the life of the stock fence as cattle and horses will not be tempted to rub on the fence posts or push against

Wishing you A Very Zappy Christmas from us all at Electric Fencing Direct!

We hope you've got all the Xmas cards posted and done all your food / pressie shopping and are starting to relax!

....if however you happen to need to stock up on electric fencing goodies over the festive period - maybe Santa forgot to buy you a new electric poultry net/ that snazzy new energiser /replacement insulators then just sit back and order online https://www.electricfencing.co.uk/ and we'll get them