Show shocking the animals Is practiced on some farms the idaho experiment station found in a recent survey many uses for electric fence equipment besides those usually advocated for instance says the country home magazine one farmer was using an electric poker to facilitate cattle loading another farmer has a charged wire around the inside of a scale fence to keep animals on the platform other uses included wiring stalls to teach horses or bulls not to attempt to break out protecting flower gardens from night raids range animals to avoid wire thereby reducing wire cuts preventing hogs from rooting under a woven wire fence breaking horses of halter pulling by putting a charged wire back of them checking the spread of bangs disease by cows which nose one another across line fences some idaho farmers are working on the idea of repelling jack rabbits by means of electrified wire another survey made in illinois on farms which had used electric fence for several years showed favorable results but also demonstrated that one wire was not sufficient to stop pigs and other small animals however animals that have been shocked a few times soon learn to avoid all wires so that it is not necessary to keep the fence continually charged |