So I went to the local farm supply store and bought a portable electrical net. The store had two, which came in two different size boxes but from the same company and had nearly exactly the same description. Both the store clerk and myself could not figure out the difference other than one was a North American packaging and the other was a European packaging. I chose the European packaging simply because it had a red netting and I thought it would be more noticeable to the sheep and keep them from running into it.
Now the reason I`m writing this post is because one would think it is straight forward setting up this net, however, I found myself on the net looking (without success) for further instructions when it didn`t work. The lambs slipped right under the net. I new I had to get the electrical circuit going on it and train them to fear the net, but the the thing that stumped me was this was a portable net. Unlike an electrical fence I set up permanently along the pasture, this one I thought wouldn`t need anything permanent like a metal rod in the ground or a power outlet since afterall it is portable and those things wouldn`t be handy all the time. But in fact it does.
You can purchase solar terminals but since we set ours up at the back of the barn, we simply used a small voltage electrical terminal. There are portable ground rods but again since we were at the back of the barn, I hammered a permanent rod into the ground next to the terminal. A ground rod is essential in completing the electrical circuit otherwise the fence will not be live.