TooOldForThis
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I swear, he must be part shetland.
For context, we have separate paddocks within a huge field (he's in with my older boy), the fencing between the paddocks is post and two strands of electric rope, which is enough to keep everyone else where they're supposed to be.
But not Storm, oh no. I've had him since a yearling (he's just turned 4), and at the beginning he was very scared of anything, I had to be really careful of putting pressure on him to catch him or whatnot because he'd just turn and jump 5ft from a standstill.
I thought I'd sorted this by extending the posts upwards by tying electric fence posts to the top, making it over 6ft. Then he decided he could limbo under it instead. So I put an extra strand underneath the bottom one. So everyone else has two strands, Storm has four.
This morning, my day off I add, someone messages me with a lovely picture of him sleeping - on the wrong side of the fence. Thankfully he doesn't go far from my other horse and even if he did, he can't get out the big field. Fence is all up still.
Looking at hoofprints, it appears he limbo'd under the fence at the bottom of the field into a ditch (I hadn't put extra tape there because I didn't think he'd do it!), walked along the ditch (it's not very deep) and limbo'd back under, to the outside of my paddock.
Oh, and he's a 15h Welsh Cob so not tiny!
Not looking for advice, thankfully everyone else just finds it funny, just sympathy and chance to have a rant!
Chocolate chip muffins available for anyone who got this far.
For context, we have separate paddocks within a huge field (he's in with my older boy), the fencing between the paddocks is post and two strands of electric rope, which is enough to keep everyone else where they're supposed to be.
But not Storm, oh no. I've had him since a yearling (he's just turned 4), and at the beginning he was very scared of anything, I had to be really careful of putting pressure on him to catch him or whatnot because he'd just turn and jump 5ft from a standstill.
I thought I'd sorted this by extending the posts upwards by tying electric fence posts to the top, making it over 6ft. Then he decided he could limbo under it instead. So I put an extra strand underneath the bottom one. So everyone else has two strands, Storm has four.
This morning, my day off I add, someone messages me with a lovely picture of him sleeping - on the wrong side of the fence. Thankfully he doesn't go far from my other horse and even if he did, he can't get out the big field. Fence is all up still.
Looking at hoofprints, it appears he limbo'd under the fence at the bottom of the field into a ditch (I hadn't put extra tape there because I didn't think he'd do it!), walked along the ditch (it's not very deep) and limbo'd back under, to the outside of my paddock.
Oh, and he's a 15h Welsh Cob so not tiny!
Not looking for advice, thankfully everyone else just finds it funny, just sympathy and chance to have a rant!
Chocolate chip muffins available for anyone who got this far.
