This is the stand out for the electric fence before.... stand out for electric fence And this one is the stand out for electric fence after someone tried to get to them. This is a heavy plastic. We have straightened it out some before I took the picture. We have decided it had to be a bear. I don't know of any other animal that would do this that lives around here.
Whoa! Bear are awfully smart. Hope the fencer was a good discouragement. Would hate to have a bear hanging around.
One other time the wire was stretched out and broken on the back side of the pens. That may have been other kind of animals, though I don't think so. This time, I ask, who could have bent that hard plastic stand out so much? I don't think a human could have even done that. If they just touch it and go away we never know. This time I know it worked. I am glad we have that electric fence around my little chickens.
When I lived in NJ, we had as many as 6 and 8 bear in our yard at one time. You couldn't scare them away. They were immune to scare tactics.
Barb, the carnage would have been awful if you hadn't provided such good protection! Bears? I think I'll stop complaining about coyotes.
Ms. Barb, call your state fish and game representative for your county. Have him/her investigate. You may have a nuisance animal. Said animal might need to be trapped and removed.
Thank you Mr.Guy. I thought of that but he hasn't done anything before. I will add that about 18 months ago, a woman and her dog, about 1 mile away from me as the crow flies, got attacked by a bear. She was in the hospital for almost a month getting fixed. He tore the skin off her back and her pinky was hanging on by skin. I sell her eggs and see her every week. She is doing fine now but is very leery of going outside. They never found the bear even though they looked forever. She worries that this one by my chickens is the same one. He will get one more offense with me. Then I call the authorities.
Barb, I have had deer run into my fence and do a lot of damage. Last year one actually got inside the fence and bent the wire all up (agrigultural fence, not just a strand of electric) and then got its button horns caught in the fence making an even bigger mess. then again this year one ran into it from the backside and popped all the zipties and collapsed the one end.
My Baby Sis and BIL going back packing in Rockies end of Month. Said they will have bear spray in pack.Can scare them away 30 feet away
