trendybraincell
Well-Known Member
I keep my horse on DIY at a lovely competition yard. He's a native so managing his weight is always at the forefront of my mind, because of this he has his own paddock which is smaller than the others. All the DIY paddocks are in one big field and done using electric fencing. I strip grazed my boys paddock as I didn't want him going straight out into a lush green field. This worked fine and he now has access to the whole paddock.
The problem now, is that it has all been eaten. I got in from work a couple of weeks ago and he was in his stable in a fowl coltish mood, turns out there had been a problem with the engergiser and he went through the fencing. Lucky another livery was onsight and caught him and told YO. They very kindly put him in stable, but he was given no hay from 10am till I got there from work, no one called me and no one told me what happened when I arrived.
Last week I arrived to find him practically crawling under the fence to eat grass in his neighbours field, so I inform YO and he takes line tester up to check, next day I'm told there is nothing wrong and fencing working. 2 days later I arrive from work to find him going over the fencing, has stretched all the tape so his neighbour could have escaped had he been in there too! However this time someone had switched the energiser off!
I turned him out on monday, and just get the feeling fencing is not electricfied, think to myself the only way to know for sure is try it myself, so after long internal argument I touch the tape...and nothing I could have swung off it! SO once agin I tell YO, electric tape not working. But the same thing yesterday and this morning, I have touched the tape everyday and its not working!!!
Now do I out my own tape and energiser inside the other tape (which is clearly not working) or do I leave it and keep telling YO its not working, which also means my horse is more than likely to go through the fencing again and maybe hurt himself of someone elses horse.
Thank you for reading, sorry it's a bit long, wanted to try and get all the info in.
The problem now, is that it has all been eaten. I got in from work a couple of weeks ago and he was in his stable in a fowl coltish mood, turns out there had been a problem with the engergiser and he went through the fencing. Lucky another livery was onsight and caught him and told YO. They very kindly put him in stable, but he was given no hay from 10am till I got there from work, no one called me and no one told me what happened when I arrived.
Last week I arrived to find him practically crawling under the fence to eat grass in his neighbours field, so I inform YO and he takes line tester up to check, next day I'm told there is nothing wrong and fencing working. 2 days later I arrive from work to find him going over the fencing, has stretched all the tape so his neighbour could have escaped had he been in there too! However this time someone had switched the energiser off!
I turned him out on monday, and just get the feeling fencing is not electricfied, think to myself the only way to know for sure is try it myself, so after long internal argument I touch the tape...and nothing I could have swung off it! SO once agin I tell YO, electric tape not working. But the same thing yesterday and this morning, I have touched the tape everyday and its not working!!!
Now do I out my own tape and energiser inside the other tape (which is clearly not working) or do I leave it and keep telling YO its not working, which also means my horse is more than likely to go through the fencing again and maybe hurt himself of someone elses horse.
Thank you for reading, sorry it's a bit long, wanted to try and get all the info in.
