Tag Archive | raccoons and electric fence

Electric Fence is ready to go

Got the electric fence up today with the help of brother in law and my nephew.  Don’t think I will take it down again.  Too much work to put up.

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Electric fence revisited

This is what I’m trying to protect this year. Nobel and Black Beauty Muscadine remain. Plus I want to figure it out this year because next year I will have a much larger crop.

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I’ve added another wire and more post to make sure the distance between the wires are closer no gaps. First wire is 3″ from the ground. Second wire is about 4-5″ above that. Third wire 4-5″ above the second and the top wire is about the same 4-5″ above the third. I’m hoping this stops them.

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The raccoons are relentless

Easy to see why these creatures are called bandits and it’s not just because the mask they wear on their face. They stole over 100lbs of grapes in 1 week from my grapevines a while back. So I put up an electric fence, three wires, based on info I found on the web. Just not good enough to stop them. I put a deer cam up to catch the action. They got through the fence on two separate nights as seen here and under the bird netting. Gotta figure out how to keep these guys out of the muscadines now!

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