5 year old jumping out of field.. not amusing now. Advice needed pls..

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The young 5 yr old has jumped out of everywhere he has been put, yesterday he cleared 3 five bar gates and the one up the drive towards the road, then changed his mind came back, wrecked the gate, grazed his hind leg when he did not clear the gate and then YO threw him in the stable.!!! This is becoming a problem now, yes we know he can jump, but he is supposed to do that at events, he appears to respect Elec tape, but if he just jumps it he now knows he wont get a twing from it. There are 150cm post and rails in the paddocks, any advice on keeping him in ? The gates are about same too. We have now resorted to parking car in the gateway he wrecked in case he jumps out of stable(he not naughty just knows he can jump) Not funny now. Had he not come back down the drive other day he would have been on the road in few hundred yards.
 
Hehe my welsh a does this! Have absolutly no idea how she clears it! :eek:

Maybe get some elec fence posts and tie them to the posts with a line of electric (very visable tape) way above his head, might deter him?

Good luck :D
 
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Friend uses 5ft high electric fencing, including over the gates, and that's the only thing that's stopped hers doing it. Doesn't enhance the look of her place but it works for her :D
 
I agree with post above - fasten some posts (short electric ones) to the wooden fence and run electric tape (one or two strands) above normal fence, including over the gate. We had a gelding that used to jump out and that was the only way to keep him in. Its extremely frustrating, we found the difficult bit was persuading him that he could jump that high under saddle! He's 15 now, and "touch wood" hasn't done it for a couple of years.
 
in a place i went to in africa in order to stop the lions charging the fence they attached blanc shiny cds to the fence. the sunlight catches them & makes them "scary" making the lion keep away. obviously in this country one of the main materials required (i.e. sunlight) is not often freely available but could you think of a similar way to make the fence "scary"? maybe something like plastic bags which make a noise in the wind?
 
My horse doesn't jump out of the field but he is a big boy (17hh) and has reared and come down on the fence post before playing too near. I got some long metal insulators and have run a line of electric around the top. The clicking does keep him away and stops him leaning over the fences and breaking them like he did before.

Sounds like you need something a bit higher though so attaching something to the top of the posts and running electric may be enough to stop him :D

Good luck :)
 
Flappy plastic (secured well) around parts of the fencing? Gives him something to spook at and learn his boundries maybe? Although he sounds the horse that would jump it amyway!
 
Ok good ideas, you think this may work.? If i get fence posts for elec tape, drill top of post and rails, insert these tape posts into holes and that will make the fence with 2 strands elec tape more than the height of himself!!!willing to try anything rather than splattered horse under a HGV on road, thank god 2 sides are huge high hedges up a bank as well.Just need to chose the most secure part of the paddock now as the whole field is split into 4 with post and rails and gates dividing it.Knew some one would have a solution.
 
You say he is turned out with the other 15 have you watched to see if there is a herd bully he is trying to get away from?

Hope you get it sorted.
 
ROMANY 1959 said:
Ok good ideas, you think this may work.? If i get fence posts for elec tape, drill top of post and rails, insert these tape posts into holes and that will make the fence with 2 strands elec tape more than the height of himself!!!willing to try anything rather than splattered horse under a HGV on road, thank god 2 sides are huge high hedges up a bank as well.Just need to chose the most secure part of the paddock now as the whole field is split into 4 with post and rails and gates dividing it.Knew some one would have a solution.
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Yup - we have done this to keep our WHW pony in and to protect our neighbours new willow hedge. We just bought the smaller cheaper pony posts as they are lighter . Has worked so far. Make sure you get a gate handle or make a loop so you can put a strip over the gateway. We had a big vet bill (and n
needed a new gate) after Denise miscalculated a five bar gate jump. She is a 13.1 cob for goodness sake who is supposed to be a companion due to arthritis in her hocks!
 
Besides making the fence higher, I would try making it wider first, rather like stallion fencing.

Run some electric fencing on the tall posts round the inside of the post & rail about 4 foot in front of it so he can't jump in between the two, but too far to jump the lot. Make sure you electrify it.

We had a livery that jumped out & it infuriated me. He also damaged a gate when he didn't clear it. I used to put him in an empty stable with water only for an hour as a punishment, but he learned quickly & soon wouldn't let me catch him!
 
Has your horse ever actually been 'stung' by the electric fence? I would be really interested to know this because whilst researching 'anti fox' fencing for my poultry pen it was mentioned several times that deer and foxes don't jump electric fences (if they have been baited properly so that the target animals had been shocked by the fence) because they have no perception of how high the electric shock goes (as opposed to the fence). I just wondered if this applied to horses too or if they are a little bit more aware of it being the actual fence that shocks.

I am about to put my colts behind an electric fence mainly to stop one of them jumping out of the field, he is 11hh and the fence is around 5ft and I am not looking forward to 'training' them that the fence hurts!!
 
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