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We have offered to provide more privacy for them in a manner appropriate to the very rural areas we live in by planting a mixed native hedge or living willow screen in our garden to provide screening to a new equine fence. Our concern is not even loss of view as our garden is elevated. My main...

It's definitely a castrated 4 year old male and it manages with standard post and rail horse fencing to their garden and neighbouring paddocks so why it needs a 2m high solid fence to our garden for equine management reasons remains a mystery.

It does run about the field at speed (as do their other child-sized ponies). It can see us and them from it's current field and has never been bothered. It is led in and out the stables daily and boxed regularly just not ridden. We're told the new fence needs to be high and solid for sound...

That was our thought but not being a horse owner I think the neighbours are trying to blind us with horse-science. Does anyone know what height or material would be best? I was thinking post and rail/or board maybe to 5' as it's hardly going to be able to jump uphill (we have a kind of haha...

They bred it themselves. It's 4 years old, unbroken.

Our neighbours keep horses and are planning to move an unbroken gelding to the paddock adjacent to our garden. They currently have a standard post and wire stock fence with additional electric tape which has been fine for previous horses who are no trouble to look out on. They want to replace...