Keep Rats Out of Your Garden
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2024
- This video shows you how to install an electric fence to keep small animals, like rats, out of your garden. Complete installation guide to working with an electric fence safely.
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Thank you for posting this! Now I just need to rig up an electric fence to keep rats out of our chicken’s coop!
Funny you should say that. I was just up at a friend's place and he had problems with ground squirrels getting into his chicken coop. I never knew that was a thing. Good luck.
This is a great video for keeping rats and mice out of our yards! I love the extra sound effects! Thanks for making this and sharing your knowledge!
Great video! Well presented and very informative. I encourage you to make more clips - also love your youtube channel name lol!
Thanks Sandrina, I appreciate the views. I'm sure I'll come up with more.
Thanks for Sharing ❤️ May have to do this where I'm living now.
Very informative and timely. Thanks!
I hope it worked for you! thanks for watching.
Thanks for the video and links to materials; I've been searching for something like this! The rats totally destroyed my garden last year because it took awhile to figure out what the problem was, and even then I underestimated the extent of the issue. We had to engage an exterminator in the fall because the rat population had exploded. (Neighbors began raising chickens in their back yards and it's changing the entire eco system,) Now there's a barn owl in the trees outside our house hunting for rodentia and evidently staying well fed. Bottom line: cannot use poison or snap traps.
It's starting again this year with all my starts chewed off.
But now there's hope! I'm ordering from Amazon today. Will keep you posted.
Thanks for watching and good luck. I'm sure you will have some great results as I have.
Did you end up installing the fence? How did it work out for you?
Fantastic video. I was thinking of doing just this with a lead-acid battery. We stopped growing vegetables because of rats. Problem is so bad that they are eating weeds and even Camelia flowers now. I am glad I found ur video. Appreciate it. I am in norther California as well (Foster City). Where are you located?
I'm over in the east bay - I haven't had any more loss since I put this system in. Good luck!
@@tv510 Thanks Terry! I hope to replicate ur success
Also curious how this impacts birds. Has there been any bird deaths?
@@nagenderbandi I haven't seen any deaths related to the electric fence, other than ants. For some reason the ants are attracted to it, they stack up and then get electrocuted in clusters. Kind of grim.
I tried this after trying many things. Rats were getting onto our roof and then under the corrugated iron, making noise at night. I filled all possible holes under the house and on all outside walls with cement-based tile grout. I constructed a one wire electric fence on my roof, around the perimeter (outside edge). Once I had hooked it up to the energizer, it took 2 nights for all rats to learn not to try to cross the hot-wire. Insulators are screwed to the metal guttering. In the wet weather, the rats made a good earth contact and received a shock. I turned it off for 1 night and the rats returned. Perhaps they test the wire with their whiskers, and only get a slight tingle, just as you can test the electric fence with a reed of grass. However, it seems the rats return as soon as the fence is not on. A good permanent fix as I do not know how they are climbing up. That they can even get onto the roof seems impossible. They must be rat ninjas. A single hot-wire powered from an electric fence energiser was the cheapest option. I have the smallest mains-powered Gallagher electric fence energiser, not a solar powered one. So just a small pulse shock is enough. Only 1 wire was needed. No more rats in our ceiling. Great relief! This needs a video searchable by keywords 'Rats' and 'Roof'. Thanks for this video.
Fantastic! Glad it works for you.
@@shockadellick it has worked for me, good luck.
The rats your dealing with are known as roof rats 🐀 and they are supremely excellent climbers and like to nest high off the ground. I’d bet they definitely were nesting in your ‘ceiling’ or attic space!
Hi @tv510, thanks for this great idea. I’m considering doing this in an urban garden in NYC. Tons of rats, as well as birds. This won’t harm or kill the birds will it? Thanks
No issue with harming these animals, the only thing is that bird aren't likely to walk into your garden so I'm not sure how you are going to set up the wire for them to get shocked. And, the animal needs to grounded. So a bird can perch on one of the wires, and unless they keep one foot on the ground, they will feel nothing. It does work well for rats though.
Will this cause a problem with any the plants that touch it? Will it affect there health and growth? What about the automatic watering system or rain?
Nope, none of the above. If plant leaves come in contact with a wire, you might get an annoying electric “tick” sound. Just keep them trimmed or pushed out of the way. But not harm to the plants.
One weird thing, if you have ants, they can sometimes create a bridge to one of the wires killing the ants that are connected. More ants will come to the rescue and can get shocked as well. Resulting in a small stack of dead ants. This can be remedied by not placing the wire too close to the ground. Good luck!
Would water impact the wire? I have irrigation system and sprinkler in the garden area. Thanks for the video.
No, I have the same thing going on here. No issues with water. Occasionally I have a leaf land on the wire and you can hear a ticking sound, just clear it away and I'm back to normal.
why did you choose the s12 over the s6
When searching for a solar electric fence, I wanted something that would shock a small rodent and this is what I landed on.
I just bought the s6. I think the only difference is how far the range is and I only need it for a small garden. I'm trying to keep rats out so I hope this works!
Great video. Nothing makes me happier than the thought of rats being shocked. Dirty little varments.
I could not agree more!! I hope the barn owl in my yard eats the ones trying to recover from being shocked.
does it harm bees?
I've never seen it harm bees. I wouldn't use if it did.
Can I book it up to 240v main outlet
My hope is that each rat will get catapulted with the force of the shock over into the neighbours garden so they can deal with it
Ha! A very entertaining image right there.
This is what im talkinf about! No amount of cinnamon, garlic, onions, plugs, has helped.
It really does work, thanks for watching.