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Electric Fence: Nets: Repellents: Smoke Bomb: Traps: Water Sprayers: |
Rabbit Proof Fence About Our Electric Fence
VEGETABLE GARDENERS: Do you hate seeing your garden attacked yearly by rabbits, squirrels, woodchucks/ground hogs, raccoons, and other varmints? You can terminate this problem with an electric fence product, Mr. McGregor’s Fence®, that is affordable, child-safe, pet-safe, 100% effective, convenient, and trouble-free. The biggest advantage of this system is its durability. Other control measures (traps, repellents, smoke bombs, fire-arms, etc.) are only deployed after the garden has been damaged, and more damage may be done before the varmints are removed. In contrast, Mr. McGregor’s Fence® is permanent. It happily withstands the winter, and after a few leaves are raked away it is ready for the Spring–long before the garden is planted, at a time when most of your friendly neighborhood veggie-munchers are still asleep. Other big pluses are convenience and safety. Easily installed, the system consists of a barrier fence placed behind two very low charged wires (the barrier fence is not electrified). Any animal that finds the barrier fence and tries to climb or burrow under it will come into good contact with the charged wires, get zapped, and go home. The wires (4 inches and 8 inches off the ground) are so low that you the gardener are unlikely to get zapped unless you decide to weed around the fence without unplugging the fence charger first. If that happens you won’t want to touch the wire again, but you certainly won’t be hurt–because the system’s special K-9 fence charger was designed to control small pets, and so it administers a zap that is convincing but too weak to even harm a sparrow. The system is commonly sold as a kit, which comes with clear installation instructions. However, you can also buy all of the necessary components separately. This is the right way to go if you already have a fence and so have no need of the barrier fence rolls and 27" posts included in the kits. More detailed information about this system and its components can be found at our main McGregor Fence Company web site, www.mcgregorfence.com. In addition, information about adapting the system to repel not just small animals but also deer is available at our garden pest control web site, www.garden-pest-control.biz. The basic 100-foot kit comes in either an AC-powered or battery-powered version. The AC-powered version includes an AC-powered electric fence charger, an insulated cable to connect the charger to the fence, electric fence wire, fiberglass posts and clip-on insulators to hold the wire, mulch to keep weeds from growing up, a green poly-coated welded steel wire barrier fence, and posts to support the fence. The highly effective battery version (powered by two flashlight D batteries that last over two months) includes the battery-powered charger, a post to support the charger, a two-foot ground rod, and everything in the AC-powered kit except the charger and insulated connecting cable. The whole system has been designed for reliability and permanence—with an eye to having it last as many years as your garden. We also offer 50-foot extender kits that have all items but the charger and insulated cable or ground rod—everything you need to extend the system another 50, 100, 150, or 200 feet. (Since either charger can power up to a half-mile of system, you can extend the fence almost indefinitely.) Accessories for Mr. McGregor’s Fence® Mr. McGregor’s Fence® can be made proof against squirrels and small (immature) rabbits by reducing the mesh size so as to create a temporary obstacle to these critters. This can be accomplished by adding our squirrel barrier to the bottom of the main barrier fence, a job that can be done in 20 minutes. Also, if the garden is over 50 feet away from your nearest AC outlet, you will need more insulated cable than comes with the AC-powered kit. This specialized cable is needed because the fence charger emits a charge with very little power but lots of volts, and an ordinary house current extension cord cannot contain those volts. Other McGregor Fence Components The following are all the components in Mr. McGregor’s Fence® except for the insulated cable listed above. Full descriptions of these components can be viewed at the Deer-Shock Depot, www.electric-deer-fence.com (see that site’s Small Animal Control page).
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