Animals eating my garden

37 chief · Jun 23, 2022

I have rabbits, and other animals eating my garden. I put up a fence charger, with two wires, One wire is 1 inch, the other about 3 inches off the ground. I had a visitor last night. I could see the ground tore up where something made a hasty retreat. Any of you use an electric fence to protect you garden? How does it work for you? I normally use chicken wire, but the animals find a way under it. This is the first year for the electric fence. I had a 12 v fence charger, but it quit. I was running it from a battery charger. I guess it didn't like it. I bought a 110 volt one. Stan

ADB-Ia · Jun 23, 2022

My wife calls me Elmer Fudd. Trouble is rabbits are pretty safe when I get out my .22. Can't hit the broad side of a barn anymore. Last time I shot at one I'm sure I heard him laughing. Gonna have to start using the shot gun. I use electric fence around the sweet corn patch to keep the coons out.

This post was edited by ADB-Ia on 06/23/2022 at 07:57 pm.

Tgrasher · Jun 23, 2022

For the last 25 years I've put an electric fencce up. I take 4 pvc pipe cut into 12 - 14 long strips cut on my table saw. I v shape one end and put a slit on the other. Driven in the ground, it makes a fence about 5 inches off the ground, with T posts on the corners. Raccoons, chickens, and dogs won't cross it. Rabbits seem to sense a safe area and hop over it, even nesting in strawed areas. I await other's comments on how to keep rabbits out.

old · Jun 23, 2022

My barn/porch cats make sure my garden is safe from things like that

MarkB_MI · Jun 24, 2022

I got tried of feeding squirrels and chipmunks with our bird feeders, so I electrified them with a small fence charger. It works good on the squirrels, but the chipmunks eventually figure out how to jump across the gap.

caterpillar guy · Jun 24, 2022

Dad uses milk jugs for the bottom wire, and then second about waist high like for cattle to help keep the deer out. Occasionally he finds the fence torn down from them running into it at first then that ends also. He puts it around the garden and his sweet corn with steel posts at the corners. He ties the corners with bale plastic bale string. His tension adjustment that way.

jimg.allentown · Jun 24, 2022

I had a similar problem with rabbits, ground hogs, and other small critters eating my garden. A local farmer turned me on to Premier fence. They sell a net type fence that is electrified. It is about knee high and I power it with a standard fence charger. It keeps the smaller critters out. They sell higher fences for the larger critters.

kito169 · Jun 24, 2022

I solved my problem with rabbits by putting cotton balls soaked in fox urine on small wooden stakes about every 12-15 feet around my garden. It stopped all small critters. Re soak every couple of months. I had a 1acre garden.

rustyfarmall · Jun 24, 2022

My garden is fully fenced in with cattle panels, covered with poultry netting to stop the rabbits, and I still need a single electric fence wire 2 feet above the ground to stop the 'coons from just climbing over. Occasionally something does get tangled up in the electric fence and it gets wrecked, but it still stops them, and I can fix the damage.

I am using a 110 volt Zareba fencer with I think a 10 mile capacity. I inadvertantly made contact with the fence ONE time. WOW. My left arm was sore for a full day after that.

flembo · Jun 24, 2022

I use an electric fence to keep deer out we don't have rabbits or ground hogs around here so I charge 3 wires at 12 2' and 3' with 2 more dead wires at 4' and 6'.

Den N Ms · Jun 24, 2022

Yeh those Zebra fencers really pack a wallop!
They will make your gold teeth burn your tongue.LOL

This post was edited by Den N Ms on 06/24/2022 at 07:32 am.

Richard G. · Jun 24, 2022

Where do you get fox urine?
I have rabbits and groundhog problems.

Traditional Farmer · Jun 24, 2022

Dog in the garden

Tony in SD · Jun 24, 2022

We use a pair of Great Pyrenees dogs. There is nothing in the garden or yard that doesn't belong.

560Dennis · Jun 26, 2022

Seen squirrel dig up the sweet corn seed
Rabbit eat down the sweet corn sprouts
And now raccoons digging up corn to eat root seed

Animals eating my garden

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