Baygard Electric Fence Yellow/Black Wire - 1312 Feet 00122

The wire is super easy to work with, and as it says, if you need to cut it, add more length, etc, you literally just tie one piece to another, and you're good to go. I did that at a few spots along the fence I made, and it couldn't have been easier. It's also extremely simple to connect this to your charger/controller or between runs of buried cable (around entry-ways). I built the fence just about 1 year ago, and next month will be back, and I will see how it all held up.I used this to set up an electric fence to keep foxes away from my parents' chickens.. It was significantly cheaper (though more work..) to build my own fence posts and use this wire with some electric fence insulators, rather than buy pre-fabricated electric fencing, and it looks way better. (If I recall, you can buy this in non-yellow, too, which will probably look less intrusive.. I personally wanted it in yellow to be obvious and a warning for humans.) Also, the pre-fabricated fencing I found was very short (3 feet), which would have allowed the chickens to easily jump/fly right over it.. As it is, a couple of them still get over the 4.5-5 foot fence I put up.Electric fencing isn't necessarily tall, since it's considered to be an "ultimate barrier" for predators, farm animals, etc.. Once they sniff it (and get zapped), they will no longer consider it jumpable. Don't ask me why, that's just what I read, and supposedly it's the truth, haha. Also, chickens are supposedly generally insulated from the shock, since their feathers don't create enough of a connection. Regardless, though, we put in an inner barrier to a) keep the chickens away from the electric wires, and b) to keep them inside the fence, since I ran horizontal wires only every 8-12 inches or so.All the chicken electric fencing/netting I found is made of 3 or 4 inch mesh squares which go straight to the ground and help contain the chickens.. It's also used to keep rodents out of gardens.. I guess this stuff is what you need for keeping small rodents out of gardens, but it's also annoying because it goes straight to the ground - you can't really mow/weedwack the stuff or you'll break it, so you need to hand-trim the grass around the perimeter of your fence.. And if grass/weeds aren't taken care of, they will help create a connection between the wires and the ground, lessening the effective shock..By making my own fence, I was able to choose how low the electric wiring went to the ground, making sure it would be easy to mow and weedwack under the wiring with no problem (though it couldn't be too high, either, allowing a fox to slip under without getting a zap..) But again, we put an inner barrier (just green plastic fencing) on the inside of the fence, so the chickens couldn't climb through/under the electric wires.. That also allowed us to put the wires fairly far apart, limiting the length we needed.My parents also have 3 cats and 1 dog.. We were worried initially, but none of them (or any of the chickens) seem to have gotten hurt by the fence.

This stuff does the job. I have used this on goats and steers. Works well. It kinks up sometimes, but is pretty easy to undo. DO NOT buy the Field Guardian brand. It is much thinner than the Baygard and I have had multiple frays in the wire.

easy to work with and hold up

Great for the money!

Best of multiple brands I've tried. Use as single-strand grazing paddock dividers. Lasts longest. Good resistance to running deer. Stops beef cattle in their tracks.

This wire is working great so far. I live in Nevada so we have heat and cold so I'll have to see how it weathers before I'm sure.

I have used this fencing for years. Good product and affordable. Highly visible by animals and people!

I have 1 strand at chest height which never breaks, and one at about 6ft high and that one has broken 3 times in 1 week. I'm constantly splicing it and sick of it, so now it's on to something stronger.