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berryman135678 (
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Sun, Feb 24, 13 at 15:36
| Going to try one of the Havaheart battery powered electric fences around my garden. Racoons have been horrific the last year. Going to move two of my bins with in the perimeter. Don't mind them digging in the finishing piles, but they are destructive when they try and get in the bins. Anyone ever use this type? Any thoughts? |
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RE: Compost electric fence
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| I heard racoon tastes pretty good...I think you should consider this recipe: |
Here is a link that might be useful: Racoon Recipe
RE: Compost electric fence
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| A dish of cat food with rat poison takes care of them and thins out the stray cats all for about 10$ . |
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- Posted by lonmower zone8 Western Oregon (My Page) on
Mon, Mar 4, 13 at 19:26
| I believe that Antonin Scalia uses (and recommends) the same method as Oil Robb |
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RE: Compost electric fence
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| Well berryman, I will try to answer your question. I must be in a fit of pragmatism this morning. :-] I have an electric fence around a small garden to keep deer out. The important thing is to have the wires at the right height. Close enough to the ground they can't get under, and another one above so they can't hop over. Make sure the lower one doesn't touch the grass or it will lose voltage. What kind of batteries does this thing use? The old farm ones used a big alkaline carbon battery, kinda pricey now. Hopefully yours runs on D cells or some such, if so you should consider some NiMH rechargeables. They'll pay for themselves. Keep us posted, I'm interested in how it works out for you. Still twiddling with mine. |
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| My 'fence' is a few poles with three or four strands of old VHS tape wound around the garden. A few CDs, countasy of the old web service providers like Earthlink dangle from the posts. And a few $1 solar lights provide a bit of brightness for the deer to see reflections of the tape and CDs at night. Not perfect, but cheap. |
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| Well its turned on for the first time tonight, just arrived. I wired around 3/4 of the garden (its a rectangular wooded 2.5' fence frame with chicken wire), then on the back side I moved two compost bins that the racoons love to tear up, with in the fence and the wires go across at three heights, 6", 18", and 31". So they cant crawl over three sides or just go under. It looks like Fort Knox or fort garden....This should go under you might be a Compost wacko when... you run enough electric fence to cover your compost. I threw some bread in the bins tonight and will see in the morning.. I will let you know. If this works out I will have a happy summer. |
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| Well so far raccoon free and they were visiting the bins every night. Time will tell. |
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| I use an electric fence for deer, only one strand mid-height. I know they can jump over, or go under but they usually only try it once a summer. Winter, I take it down and they eat everything. I don't know if raccoons are smarter than deer? We have one strand that keeps cows in, they won't go near it. Hopefully, your raccoons will get a shock or two and learn quickly. |
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