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Wisconsin | You've trained them how to get out, don't do it that way.
You need to have them trained to respect the fence before you put them in the fence. Then have the fence hot, the ground wet, two one year old intact male border collies sitting outside the fence drooling to chase them...
Put them inside a cattle panel fence, then run an electric fence along one side. Then move the fence partway across the middle of the pen. Let them get used to the fence being very effective and not worth crossing. And put them into a different pasture with a hot fence and established fencelines, that is, short grass inside, and brush on the outside or similar.
How do you know you have a good ground and a big fencer if you haven't tested them? Go to the far end of the pasture stick a steel post into the ground, hold it by a plastic insulator and move it close to the wire, the spark should jump 3/8" and have some snap and brightness to it. The distance is the voltage of the fence, and the snap is the joules, or how much it hurts. Go back to the fencer, disconnect the fence and do the same test with a screwdriver, you should have close to the same results as at the end of the fence.
Culling the first one out works pretty well also. There's always one that starts it, you may have a few that have caught on by now. | |
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Electric fence ideas
