breaking stable doors down

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asbo

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new yard has huge cattle gates for doors , jay knows if he leans on them he can take them down, be it taking hinges of the wall or sheering the bolt in 2
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any good ideas on keeping the beggar in ?

cant change the doors as its open fronted stables & this is the only thing that fits
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lol i thought about it along with connecting the metal gate to a energizer & fry the bugger
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have moved him so he doesnt think his girls are going out without him but he still trys to barge out them
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doesnt do it with normal doors, wonder if blocking them on both sides would help?
 
Is it possible to put something really uncomfortable on the door, like a line of prickly stuff? So he pricks his chest. Racking my brains as to what -

Or train him that when he presses he gets a face full of water? You'd have to be there then though....
 
hes a sneaky bugger, he does it when your backs turned, if you face him he hardly ever does it, just worried he will do it when i have gone for the night, hes taken 1 door down this week & has been out since due to him being needed in a emergency to be a companion to a 2 year old mare
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Hope this is a helpful suggestion as I don't know what a cattle gate looks like! My horse did this at one yard we were at and just kept breaking his door. We got a log (thickness of telegraph pole!) and hung it from baler twine loops across the inside of his door. It was impossible to barge through and easy enough to move by taking one end out of the baler twine loop and just swinging it into the stable. This could be rather heavy for you though if your gates are wide!
 
might be worth thinking about. thanks
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they are 12 ft long gates with 5 bars on them, pretty heavy, but for a 17hh id x tb its nothing
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Do you use electrical tape fencing? If you do then why not get a strand of electric tape connected to an electric fencer and run this across with some wood strips to hold it in place about 2-3 inches in from the gate, you should only need 6 small strips of timber and could even tape them together in place on the gate (thinking sandwich the gate with 2 bits of timber then attach an insulator to prevent it from earthing) not frying him but at least giving him a shock if he touches it?
 
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they are 12 ft long gates with 5 bars on them, pretty heavy, but for a 17hh id x tb its nothing

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TELL me about it! My 3 year old ID colt (currently 16.2) will walk through stable doors snapping the bolts in half! A top grill sorts THAT problem.

Your's is a bit harder - MIGHT be worth rigging an electric fence unit to power a rope 'gate' above the metal gate. Two benefits - keep him in - and teach him that metal gates bite back!
 
what really worries me is what if he gets his legs in the gates, i have seen horses get their legs in field gates and always worry when gates are used on stables, and auction pens, other than that i feel sure the electric tape will work you can buy portable fencer units quite cheaply, they run off 2 torch batteries
 
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