How many miles of fence are you running and what size charger do you have? How many strands do you have and at what spacing? How far away from the charger are they getting out?
They can roll under wire and also have a way of laying on the wire and rolling over it. I made a temporary round pen with old snow fence and a top wire 3 1/2' tall. I've watched them stand next to it and hop right over without much effort at all. When fences get 5' and particularly 6' tall, they won't try to jump them.
This is a wet year in KC but sometimes for a dry year you may need up to 3 ground rods spaced 10' apart especially carrying a long distance. I use 2 but am ready to add another if necessary.
I have no trouble with 2 wires, one at 2' and one at 4'. All told about 2 miles worth of wire. Of course I bought the $200 200 mile fence charger. Puts out about 13 joules. The fence testers I've seen don't even test up to 13000 volts so I haven't bought one. Bumped it with my elbow a month ago and that jolt lingered in my arm for a day or two. Just left my elbow numb for a while. Get a piece of wire and stick one end in the ground and hold the other with some electrician's rubber handled pliers and touch it on the fence. It will arc real good when you have a good charge going through the fence. I try to rotate parts of the pasture every few weeks. When I switch sides and they go running down from the barn, they come to a screeching halt when they see the path they normally take blocked by the wire.
What you can do is run another wire (look at the High tensile wire book at TSC) as a ground wire. Tie it to the posts and ground it every so often. Then if they stick there head in between the hot wire and a ground wire, they get zapped. You can alternate the hots and grounds.
My horses have learned to really respect the fence so they don't get near it. You are close to training yours to ignore it. My horses are out by a state highway, I can't afford to buy a cheap 2 or 5 mile fence charger and have them get out. I don't trust all the advertising that says they work fine on horses. Then when the weeds grow into it or the deer come running through and knock down your wire, or it gets hot and dry out, you have to stay on top of it. Buy as much charger as you can afford. I use cheap old wire since I put the money in the charger and not the ribbon.
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