Electric Fence For Rodents

The mouse climbs up the flashing and as soon as it contacts the hardware cloth it gets a big jolt of electricity and dies.

Electric fence for rodents.

Deerbusters critter and rabbit proof fence make a great compliment to our poly deer fence in preventing small animals from chewing through the poly mesh and into your garden. Because the wires are close to the ground you should keep them free of vegetation or use a zareba low impedance fence charger. By protecting your garden with an electric fence you can return to tending to your growing plants rather than worrying about protecting them. Use 3 to 5 wires to prevent small quick critters from jumping or hopping through the fence.

You can stop them with some 1 4 grid hardware cloth. A fence charger which runs off a 120 volt outlet in the machine shed charges the fence. The complete 150 rabbit fence kit includes everything you need to install a rodent free fence enclosure to keep out bunnies groundhogs and other nibbling rodents. In an attempt to find where the mice were getting into the living area i adapted the electronic mechanical trap to form an electric fence.

A low impedance charger increases its energy output as vegetation drains energy from the fence. To repel deer it is set up directly under two. Often rodents will crawl under the garden gate so pay extra attention to this area and reinforce it. If you do have a fence around your garden then you need to make it more secure.

I tried conventional spring loaded traps poison electronic sound generating devices and an electronic electrical trap that instantly kills the mouse when contact is made with two electrodes. If you don t have a fence already build one. Build a sturdy fence. The hardware cloth connects to the charger s positive wire and the flashing connects to the negative wire.

By constructing a small electric fence around your plot you ll be able to keep squirrels rabbits groundhogs and other wildlife away. Made of 14 gauge pvc coated steel our welded wire fence for rodent control is welded together to give the fence material an extremely strong build. Rodents also burrow under fences. Likewise your fence can ward off wandering pets.