Can a Patriot P30 Dual Purpose Electric Fence Energizer, 3.0 Joule kill some one ?

[shamin]

I am really tired of thieves raiding into my chicken coop and stealing my girls.

So guys, what if i create a metal cage around my coop and electrify it with a Patriot P30 Dual Purpose Electric Fence Energizer (3 joules)

The cage dimensions are 12 feet x 5 feet and height = 12 feet.

I want if a burglar thief try to steal my chickens him to have a good lesson but not kill him. lol

Please advice.

[Florida_Gator]

Are people or wild animals stealing your chickens?

I have a 2 Joule fencer electrifying a single strand of tape around a 1 acre pasture. My neighbor, who is 85 with a pacemaker, bless his heart, has touched the fence on more than one occasion trying to feed my horses treats. Neighbor is still alive. My brother in law grabbed the tape one day because he wasn’t sure what it was :roll eyes: and he is also still alive, although he was able to confirm that the fence is hot and works very well :lol: I don’t think a 3 Joule fencer will kill a person but I’d make sure your chickens can’t get lit up from it because they might not fare as well.

[tangledweb]

Electric fences don’t kill people. Putting one up specifically to target people is probably a questionable idea for various reasons, but the man problem with your plan is you need a way to keep your cage insulated from the ground. It would need to be up on plastic legs or something … and then non-human thieves will be able to go under and steal chickens.

[clanter]

if burglar is a bird no as it would not be grounded if it lands on the cage

make sure the earth around the pen is well watered to increase the effect

[Wayside]

[QUOTE=tangledweb;8561048]
you need a way to keep your cage insulated from the ground.[/QUOTE]

I knew someone who electrified cattle panels for her ram’s enclosure, and I think she just used tiny rubber feet or a line of rubber tubing to keep it off the ground. I can’t recall clearly, but it was definitely very close to the ground.

Electronet might also be an option in this case.

ETA: Here’s what she had to say: “We insulate the bottom of the panels from the ground with polyethylene tubing. We originally used old garden hose, but it wore through when dragging across the rocky ground or chip sealed road. This new tubing is repurposed 1/2 inch drip line. it has a single slice down the length, and is placed over the panel, and taped using electrical tap, or duct tape.”

[walkers]

I have read that small kids can be killed if their head touches a powerful electric fence. Not sure it is true but?
When I was in high school someone was stealing gas out of my history teachers car. He wired it with electric fence to teach the kid a lesson. The teacher ended up dead which I guess was lucky or he would have killed some kid. True story Mr. Fazioli 8th grade.

[Calvincrowe]

If by “people” you mean a raccoon, then no, it will not kill them. My brother used one to electrify the top of his chicken pen and enjoyed the show when several times coons tried to climb in only to receive an electrical “hell no!” at the top. The combination of volts and amps is what kills. An electric fence should not have enough of both to do so. I think you’d be better off buying the electric netting mentioned or using a couple of strands of electric wire strategically placed than trying to electrify the existing chicken wire.

[snowrider]

I will verify that you can kill the crap out of birds with an electric fence (oops!) so keep that in mind.

[ReSomething]

We killed a snapping turtle that got it’s carapace hung up under an old fashioned Red Snapp’r electric fence, the kind you haven’t been able to buy for years. Very large and old individual, DH felt horrible when he found it.
Don’t know the rating, but they burn weeds and hurt like Hell.

He shopped around flea markets to find it for an anti bear fence, you can look up how to set them up to keep bear out of beekeepers yards. You DON’T want to get hung up in the wire, or step on the apron by accident.