Argh horse jumping out!!

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Just had a call to say my horse has jumped put and is stood on the driveway :(

He had never done this until we moved to this yard and was turned out with mares. Which is why I got him his own Shetland mare so no matter what the other horses were doing he would always have her with him so no need to jump to get to any others. Anyway it's been a while since he has done it but one of the mares he is normally out with was moved to the otherside of the drive a few days ago. All has been fine without a problem. He has electric fencing along this side of the fence to make it wider and harder for him to do but turns out he has managed it anyway today.

Any tips on how to keep him in? I was going to bring the electric fence in further and I am feeding plenty of hay so he shouldn't need more food.

Cannot wait till I move now at least he will just be out with geldings then and the fencing is higher!!
 
Many years ago I had a pony who would jump out of anywhere you tried to keep him even when he had the company of other ponies. He could and would jump a five bar gate from a standstill if he saw me go into the feed room, shame he didn't have the same talent when ridden.
An old chap gave me a way to stop it that worked. Take a headcollar and attach to it from a browband to the nose band a piece of stiff leather that extends out at the sides beyond his eyes so it works like blinkers but in reverse. Instead of stopping the view to the side it allows the horse to see to the side but not to the front. This stops him getting the line of sight to judge the fence and jump out of the field.
 
Thanks for the advice but think he would get that off! Bloody thing.

Good news is I got to the yard had a good look around the field and I don't think he purposely jumped out. The inner electric fencing had come off one of the posts and blown into the wooden outer fence posts so obviously not working. He had somehow got tangled up into this and the fence (part of the outer fence is now broken) and there are loads of scrabbly hoof marks and part of his rug on the fence. He must have scrabbled over the fence to untangle himself somehow!! Little monster. Poor boy tho must have really been panicked. He defo wasn't getting out to see the other mares as this was the opposite side if the field.

Here is the boy when my friend found him this morning

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And this is what he has been doing since he was put back in the field

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Somehow there is not a mark on him and apart from being very tired he is fine! Thank god. It could have been so much worse!!
 
Good job he stayed on the drive, could he have got onto the road? Prob wouldn't wander off tho if he is keen to stay with his friends.

I got a call today to say my two were out, I was worried, but when I got to the farm, I found that the shoot yesterday had not sut a gate between my paddock and the next, and all mine had done was go thro to the next paddock which is meant to be resting for the summer. So not the big worry I was imagining!

Your boy looks very chilled now he is back where he is meant to be!
 
It's a really long driveway so I doubt he would go that far to be honest and like you say he won't leave the horses anyway.

It's do scary when you get that phone call isn't it. You can never get to the yard quick enough!! Glad to hear that yours were ok tho.

I cannot wait to move yards now, the new place has got higher permanent electric fencing run off the mains so that should stop him going near it :)
 
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