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Happy Easter Everyone!

Here's hoping the weather is half decent for us and our animals... and you get lots of chocolate!!

Countrystore Direct Easter Opening Hours

We are open to take your orders and chat with you on Easter Friday and also on Easter Monday!

Contact us as follows:

Friday 30th March 2018  - by email, phone (leave us a message) and live chat

Saturday 31st March 2018 - by email

Sunday 1st April 2018  - by email

Monday 2nd April 2018  - by email, phone (leave us

We are in the process of developing some new kits for keeping out foxes, badgers, rabbits, deer, herons etc... and for keeping in poultry, pigs, sheep, cows, goats, horses and ponies.  We will also develop some new and improved bowling green kits along with some easy to install three reel systems.

Please bear with us as we try to get these kits right.  We want to provide you with electric fence kits that really are a proper kit... everything you need to get up and running as soon as it arrives.

The Beginning... Welcome to our hen journey!

When I was 7 or 8 I got my first hens - 4 Rhode Island Red bantams and a cockerel.  I loved them.  They were beautiful little bantams and hardy ... they needed to be as after a week or so in the hen house they were released on to the farm.  We had lots of hens who free ranged around the farm.  They were the yard scavengers - and we fed them too.  The Rhode Island Reds settled in well and were around for years and years.  Since then I have had

Our cat flaps are used in many different applications... mostly for cats for pet owners at home.  However every now and again we find someone using them in a different way.

Peticular Pens makes bespoke catteries and cat hotels - http://peticularpens.co.uk/home

These guys use our cat flaps - 715EF. Original Staywell 2 Way Pet Door (Small) and 799WHITE. Staywell Small Pet Door Extension Tunnel to help create their great designs.

Their catteries look very clean, fresh and very professional.

Its supposed to be snowing today in Scotland.  Brrr.  We have had a shower or two already but its not lying much in East Lothian yet.

These are the kind of days where you can get on with ordering your electric fencing for 2018.  Whether it is a new kit or repairing an old fence we have everything you need at Countrystore Direct - your products are just a click away!

Our prices are still reduced on some items - especially energisers and posts.  Have a look at the home page - our energisers

Are you ready for Christmas...  we hope you are all getting into the festive spirit!

We'll be putting some more offers on the shop in the next couple of days and there will be different ones for 2018... watch the blog for more info.

***WE WILL CONTINUE TO PROCESS ORDERS AND SHIP TIL 20TH DECEMBER BUT CANNOT GUARANTEE DELIVERY BEFORE CHRISTMAS***

                       Friday 22nd December 2017                       9am till 5.30pm (Phone & Email)

Saturday 23rd December 2017                       

Earthing/Grounding of electric fence systems.

Every electric fence relies on being insulated from the ground for it’s effectiveness.

The fence energiser sends a high voltage electric pulse onto the fence but that pulse does not go anywhere unless something ‘shorts’ it to the ground (or earth).  That is why plastic insulators or posts are used, to ensure that the fence is insulated from the ground.

When an animal touches the fence it shorts the fence, providing a route for the pulse to the ground

Electric fencing ‘cord’, or ‘polycord’ as it is sometimes referred to, is a type of fencing conductor made from polyethylene strands and thin stainless steel or tinned copper wires and is used for containing many types of stock animals and poultry and for deterring various pests.

Cord has the advantage of being suitably conductive yet very light in weight and very flexible.  This means that far less tension has to be put into the fence line than with solid or stranded galvanised steel wire. 

Electric Fencing Rope is becoming more and more popular for a number of reasons. Available in five, six and seven millimetre diameters, rope is visible enough to be suitable for horses yet small enough to be used for many other stock or pest animals.

For horses, rope is a good alternative to tape, as it does not catch the wind as tape does.  Also rope is much easier to handle.  It becomes tangled far less easily than tape and can be rolled up more readily.  This is a particular advantage if