barbed wire fencing!!

yay when naked, not so yay when rugged and they can't feel it so can rip rugs! but depends on the horse! my old bird is very respecful of fencing so I don't mind so much! my young boy will lean over anything thats not electric! so not so good for him! however, our 2 new fields have been fenced with barbed wire on the top, huff!
 
Hate it. Has no use for horses others than contributing to vets bills and making more scars.

Sheep netting is also a no for me, have some lovely injury photos from where my pony got stuck in sheep netting as she got ran into/over it by a loose dog. If i had to put up with it, like if i moved to somewhere where changing the fencing wasnt allowed id electric fence an additional fence just to try and keep them away from it and whack my energizer on full, but i still wouldnt be totally happy.
 
Hate it! We have it round one side of the field (sheep in next field, farmer put up fence to keep them in), my girl jumped said fence couple of years ago, got leg caught in fence. Very nasty cut to leg, hefty vet bill and she's left with a big scar! And this winter she has shredded her neck rug on the same fence as the grass is much nicer on the other side of the fence!
 
Beausmate said:
BIG nay!
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Star_Chaser said:
this... :D
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Agreed.

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Rented a field didn't realise had one couple feet barbed wire, both horse cut their faces, sedation, staples, drugs, 200 bill ! Def nay
 
I have it on two sides of my horses paddock and I hate it as she has already rolled and got stuck in it! Luckily she was rugged and just got a few scratches on her legs from it. Needless to say the rug is no longer waterproof but still useable!
 
Fii said:
that does look nasty! :(
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Doesn't show the full story either as she was slashed from the near side shoulder, round the chest to the off side shoulder, along the side right up to the top of the off side hip/flank.

These show some more of the cuts (now healed, but you can see where they were - missing fur and yellow fly cream). It really was as if someone had taken a razor to her and cut and sliced and cut and sliced away for ages.

The two stapled cuts on her chest were huge gaping holes before they were treated.

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I have never found it much use for horses TBH.

They don't seem to view it as much of a deterrent,and will either lean over it and injure themselves or at the very least rip rugs on it.

I don't have a lot of it,but do have some in my small summer paddock.Luckily never had many injuries (few scrapes on their necks where lean over it,but nothing more serious thank goodness),but certainly had some sewing jobs on trashed rugs:mad:

Turnout rugs are bad enough but it makes mince meat out of fly rugs,PITA in my honest opinion,and would never have the stuff as fencing by choice.
 
we have it where our field borders one with cows and calves in. Without it the cows lean on the wire to get our grass and knock it over. It is ok if properly maintained like any wire.
 
We have it on our farm, we have to for the cows, and the horses share the same fields. It isn't ideal, but if maintained and taught we live with it. In an ideal world we would have our own equestrian property, lovely solid post and rails with a thick hedge, but alas, we don't!
 
It's illegal in Sweden and some states in the US I think. It's not always recommended for cattle either, as the wire damages the hide.

Evil stuff.
 
Having a coblet that goes through everything then Im saying yay.

usually Im saying nay but when you have had a horse uproot everything from plain wire to post and rail and ignoring leccy then you will try anything to keep a horse in a field.
 
We have it round our field, and i wont be changing it, we do have hedging as well in places, we also keep some ponies on common land with cattle grids!
 
Cattle grids! Eeek!

I saw a horse which degloved it's leg from fetlock to knee (including tendons severed) on one leg, the other legs were also scraped to the bone in places. It was a fatal injury. I'm pretty wary of cattle grids due to this and we have some on one of our local bridleways (gates next to the grids which I use and try to keep as far away from the grids as poss).

Yes, horses can hurt themselves on nothing, but I don't want to make it easy for them.
 
Faracat said:
Agreed.

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New Yrs day both my horse and I looked a lot like this after an accident on the bridlepath. I only had a strand or two on my fields which the previous owner strung between the trees around the borders but I ripped it all out the next day.
 
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Yes in certain places. I have one fence which borders a wood which is 3 strands of barbed wire, we did have a bit of a problem with dog walkers and asbo youths coming from the wood into the field and the barbs seem to be a good deterent. I also have it on other parts of my fences but as a combination with post and rail. I wouldn't use it as a dividing fence between horses though.
 
Part of our fields have barbed wire and while I don't like it, my horses have enough savvy to be respectful of it. They don't rip their rugs, unlike their field mates who seem to shred theirs.

I'm more bothered by barbed wire bordering bridlepaths, particularly along canter tracks. If the horse spooks or stumbles, the results could be nasty.
 
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