Increasing Your Electricity on Pasture
Since we started raising sheep, our go-to method for grazing and keeping them contained has been using mobile electric nets. Right now, we only have one fully fenced pasture – our 5-acre lambing area. The rest of the farm is open, so we've become pretty skilled at managing our commercial flock with these portable nets. One of the first hurdles we faced was getting enough charge in the nets to stop those sheep from sneaking underneath. I tried a bunch of things, mostly adding more grounding rods, but it never quite did the trick. That’s when I started digging into the science of electric fences. One thing that jumped out at me was how almost every permanent electric fence setup connects grounding rods with wire, usually spaced around 10 feet apart. The amount of acreage you're covering dictates how many rods you need. Armed with this info, I started thinking about how we could apply this to our mobile nets. My first step was buying 9-foot grounding rods and cutting them into 3-f...
