We know autumn is one of the busiest times on the land – whether you’re preparing your paddocks, tightening up fencing before winter, or stocking up on essentials for livestock. To make things a little easier, we’re treating our customers to FREE delivery on all orders over £100 (ex VAT).
But be quick – this special offer is only available until midnight on 31st October 2025!
Why now is the perfect time to order
With winter around the corner, having reliable electric fencing
When it comes to building a reliable electric fence, your choice of electric fence posts is just as important as the energiser or wire. Fence posts give your system strength, stability, and the right height for your animals. At Electric Fencing Direct, we stock a wide range of posts—plastic fence posts, metal fence posts, poultry netting posts, and accessories—to suit every type of electric fencing project.
It's hands-down the most common question we get asked at www.electricfencing.co.uk: "Which energiser do I need for my electric fence?" Whether you're a smallholder, hobby farmer, poultry keeper, or seasoned livestock owner, choosing the right energiser is key to keeping your animals safe, keeping predators out and your fence working reliably.
But don't worry – we’re here to break it down in plain English!
How Safe is Agricultural Electric Fencing? The Shocking Truth (That’s Not So Shocking!)
Electric fencing often gets a bit of a bad reputation—cue dramatic music and worried faces from people picturing sparks flying and livestock leaping. But is agricultural electric fencing really dangerous? Spoiler alert: not at all. In fact, when installed correctly and used responsibly, it’s one of the safest, most humane, and most effective ways to contain animals and protect crops.
Yet again the badgers are out in force... we are getting more and more calls this week about badgers either turning over the garden, getting into the veg patch. So below we have some electric fence kits that might help you. We are also on the end of a phone to put together something bespoke to fit your needs. Believe me I feel your pain for me its moles who are doing the damage to my garden...
So you spent a lot of time planning and landscaping
☀️ Tired of Heavy Batteries? Let Solar Power Lighten the Load!
Are you fed up with lugging heavy batteries up and down the field? Frustrated with constantly checking power levels or remembering to recharge every couple of weeks?
We’ve got a game-changing solution – solar panels for your electric fencing batteries! With our solar assist panels, you could go from charging every 2 weeks to just 4 times a year (sunlight permitting, of course). That’s a serious time and energy saver!
Electric fences are essential tools for farm management, livestock and predator control. But to keep your fence system working properly, you need one critical tool: the electric fence tester.
Whether you're a farmer, backyard farmer, or landowner, knowing how to test your electric fence and troubleshoot problems can save time, protect animals, and improve safety. In this blog post, we’ll explore what electric fence testers do, the different types available, and how to use them effectively.
And now on to some good news on an otherwise fairly chilly November day...
To enter our fabulous competition to win both our fence tester and pre-wound electric fence reel you need to email us the correct answer to the question below:
Why might you want to keep your polywire on a reel?Because:
It looks fancy as the polywire and the reel are matchy matchy!
It stops it becoming fankled when you dismantle your fence!
The reel hangs better when it is full of polywire!
The Basics - Electric Netting - Tips, Advice & Problem Solving
Problems with your poultry netting? Is the netting sagging and shorting? Cannot get enough power through it...? How do I integrate a ‘hotgate’?
We hope these snippets of information in our blog Electric Netting - Tips, Advice and Problem Solving below will help answer these questions above and help you put up your electric netting in record time and also give some tips for trouble shooting too…
