Interesting Facts About The Electric Fence

While electric fences are commonplace in many rural areas as a way of keeping livestock contained, the general public knows very little about how they operate or about their history. Below, we have organized a few of the more interesting points that you might want to know if you will be working with or near electric fencing.

1. Electric fences are almost never fatal. These are designed not to be. A fence that kills your livestock is not really doing you any favors, after all. One big exception to this, though, is the fence separating North and South Korea.
2. The first electrified fence patent was registered in 1886, just three years before Mark Twain made the concept famous in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. The world would have to wait until 1905, however, to see a working one.
3. The United States and New Zealand were the main innovators in electric fencing for livestock during the 1930s.
4. It is just as often used to keep wild animals out of your property as to keep your livestock in. Both nuisance animals like deer and serious predators like wolves and boar can be controlled this way.
5. Buried fences for dogs and intruder detection systems are technically electric fences, even though they do not deliver a shock.

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