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Effective wild boar defense: Protect your animals from African Swine Fever with AKO Electric Fences

African Swine Fever (ASF) is once again threatening wild boar and domestic pig populations. This highly contagious animal disease has devastating effects and can wipe out entire herds in a very short time. ASF is caused by a virus that is extremely resilient and can spread both directly from animal to animal and indirectly through contaminated objects, feed, or clothing. Particularly insidious: wild boars are often carriers of the disease, which can then spread uncontrollably to domestic pigs. For farmers with extensive livestock, protecting their animals is therefore of utmost priority.

What is African Swine Fever?

African Swine Fever is a viral infection that affects only pigs. It causes high fever, loss of appetite, skin redness, and bleeding, often resulting in death. There is no effective treatment or vaccine against ASF, making prevention and protective measures crucial.

How does ASF spread?

ASF is mainly transmitted through direct contact between infected animals. However, indirect transmission routes are also common: contaminated transport vehicles, feed residues, clothing, and even humans who unknowingly spread the virus. Particularly problematic is the spread through wild boars, which are natural hosts of the virus and can cover long distances.

Why are AKO Electric Fences an effective solution?

To prevent the spread of African Swine Fever, it is essential to keep wild boars away from your farm and livestock. Here, electric fences offer an effective and flexible solution. AKO electric fences not only guarantee a robust barrier but can also be combined with smart monitoring technology to enable constant control and adjustment.

Benefits of AKO Electric Fences:

High Impact: Effective protection against the intrusion of wild boars.
Smart Monitoring: Modern technologies allow you to monitor and adjust the condition and function of your fence at any time.
Flexibility: Quick and easy to install and adaptable to various conditions as needed.
Durability: High-quality materials and craftsmanship ensure long life and minimize maintenance effort.

Ein schwarz geflecktes Hausschwein mit Ferkel auf einem Freigelände

Urgency and need for action

The threat of African Swine Fever is real and requires immediate action. Protect your animals and your farm from this dangerous animal disease. Invest in powerful and effective electric fences from AKO to create a secure and controlled environment.

Protect your animals and your farm – act now with AKO Electric Fences and Smart Technology!

Wild boar additionally cause considerable damage caused by feeding and rooting

Ein Wildschwein nähert sich dem umzäunten Feld

As soon as high-growing crops such as rapeseed, rye, maize or miscanthus (China reed) provide sufficient cover in the hunting grounds, wild boar will move in. The result: considerable damage caused by feeding and rooting.

Damage like this can be avoided with a properly set up and maintained AKO electric fence. The power is supplied by a very powerful 12 V AKO electric fence device. For long fences with multiple wires and where heavy vegetation is to be expected, we recommend a pulse energy of more than 5 Joules.

Please note:
in order to effectively protect rapeseed crops, but especially maize fields, the electric fence must be set up and energised before the crops provide cover. Otherwise, you run the risk of fencing in sows already in it. A wild boar defence fence should be 50 to 60 cm high.

The AKO wild animal defence net

“WildNet” has many benefits, including:

Fast and easy to assemble and disassemble
50 m long, blue net in one piece
Easy connection options
3 current-carrying TriCOND wires
Defined wire distances and number of posts
A guide for blue signal tape on robust posts
Fence height thus 75 cm
Blue colour more easily visible for cloven-hoofed animals

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Wild boar defence fence

WildNet
Blue signal tape
Fence connection cable with alligator clips
Pulse-Flash
Warning sign

Our product tips for wild boar defence

Important:
The electric fence is even better perceived when the blue signal tape is pulled through the top guides of the fiberglass posts. In windy conditions, this additionally causes movement noise.

Our tip:
The patented WildNet can be erected and dismantled more quickly than conventional electric fences and can therefore be used flexibly. Due to the ground clearance of 22 cm, it is better for mowing out and thus has significantly fewer discharges, i.e. more power at the fence. It also offers the possibility to pull in the blue 25 mm signal tape (250 m), for better visual support. The 50m nets can be easily connected to each other, as a connector is integrated in the net, so a separate connector is not necessary.

Recommendation:
In areas exposed to wind, we recommend that you cut the signal tape into several pieces and secure one piece to the top of each post. It's worth the effort!

“Preventing damage caused by wild animals is a key task for hunters in many territories. The electric fence is more effective than any other countermeasure, since the main maize crop has such a long at-risk period. If you do not shy away from the time-consuming regular inspections and maintenance of the electric fence then, together with some hunting, you will almost be able to forget about damage caused by wild animals!”

GAME MASTER MATTHIAS MEYER – professional hunter in a large private forestry and hunting administration, author