Different Gate Setups for Electric Fencing

When it comes to keeping your livestock or pets safe, a good gate setup can make all the difference. Whether you’re dealing with sheep, goats, hens, or horses, choosing the right type of gate and connecting it to your electric fence safely ensures your animals stay contained — and you stay stress-free.

Here’s a guide to the most common gate setups, with practical tips, safety reminders, and ideas to make your fencing work smarter.

1. Running Power Under

At Countrystore Direct, we know that electric fencing isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution. Every property and every project is unique, which is why we’re here to help, whether you’re protecting hundreds of acres or just a tiny garden patch.

From 10 Meters to 100s of Miles

Electric fencing has countless uses—from keeping livestock safe, deterring wildlife, or even securing a small vegetable patch. Some of our customers need fencing that stretches across hundreds of miles, while others just need

Electric Fence Voltage Testers.

Common types available.

1. Audible Voltage Tester.
2. Neon Light Voltage Tester.
3. LED Voltage Tester.
4. Digital Voltage Tester.

Testing your electric fence is an essential part of installing and maintaining your system, whether you are keeping predators out or your livestock in, a faulty fence will render it ineffective.
These 4 types of electric fence voltage tester each have their own advantages and vary greatly in price.

1. Audible Voltage Tester.

The most basic

There are so many options...

If you are looking for an electric fence to keep your animals safe or for a fence to keep predators out our products and kits will do the job.

We can help you find the right fence for a little job or large system.  Contact us with information about:

1. the distance you need to cover
2. how the fence is to be powered - ie mains, battery or solar
3. what animals you need to protect or keep out

We can then direct you to a product or kit that would suit your needs or if a kit is

In the most basic terms an energiser (pulser, fencer) converts mains or battery power into the pulse you want to run down your fence.  It is a high voltage pulse with low amps (very different to mains electricity).  The energiser releases the pulse along your insulated electric fencing at one pulse every second.  The actual pulse lasts around 150 microseconds!

The pulse or shock is what you feel if you touch the electric fence.  I wouldn’t advise it!

The shock is created because the circuit

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

Tips on using Solar Powered Electric Fence Energisers.

 Solar powered fence energisers are in essence the same as ordinary battery powered energisers except for the addition of a photovoltaic solar panel.  The panel adds charge to the internal battery whenever it is exposed to light.  The energiser itself draws its current from the battery in exactly the same way as an ordinary battery unit and does not rely directly on the solar panel for its energy so the unit continues to operate even during

As you will be aware badgers and their sets are protected and so dealing with damage to your lawn or garden caused by them is a task that requires some careful planning.
There are many suggested methods of detering badgers some of which will be successful and with widely varying costs.
Creating a strong physical barrier such as a metal badger fence is likely to work but also be expensive and unsightly around your garden.
Low cost solutions such as changing the way your garden furniture is laid out,