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At the end of my tether with another livery and her pony getting into my field, eating my hay, drinking my water dry, happens several times per week. I want to move but options limited. YO doesn’t do anything.

Fencing is all electric and pretty knackered. Other livery doesn’t have her electric on that much and sometimes ‘accidentally’ attaches hers to mine and sometimes my battery gets turned off!

Thinking of redoing my electric to make extra secure or secondary fencing. This pony is ducking through somehow. I’m so desperate was even looking at sheep mesh (I can’t use this can I, due to danger of legs getting stuck?). Any advice on how to make my fencing better or more secure greatfully received. Currently got 4 strands. I’m assuming the mesh that goes around arenas is a no go?

Thanks
 
Make sure you have the minimum amount of joins, as this can reduce the amount of charge going through.

This is probably why hers isn't as effective ( when it's actually switched on).

Have your battery well charged and check you've no long grass touching either. Drive your earth well into the ground too, and keep it damp, again to maximise the charge.
 
I don’t like mondays said:
At the end of my tether with another livery and her pony getting into my field, eating my hay, drinking my water dry, happens several times per week. I want to move but options limited. YO doesn’t do anything.

Fencing is all electric and pretty knackered. Other livery doesn’t have her electric on that much and sometimes ‘accidentally’ attaches hers to mine and sometimes my battery gets turned off!

Thinking of redoing my electric to make extra secure or secondary fencing. This pony is ducking through somehow. I’m so desperate was even looking at sheep mesh (I can’t use this can I, due to danger of legs getting stuck?). Any advice on how to make my fencing better or more secure greatfully received. Currently got 4 strands. I’m assuming the mesh that goes around arenas is a no go?

Thanks
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Well, there’s poultry mesh electric fencing? Shouldn’t get a horse hoof thru that.
My sister has an Alsatian dog, garden fenced with 2metre high panels down one side, behind which a very full of itself male retriever came to live - loads of aggressive barking, and one /both of them burst through - dog shaped hole in the fence, fighting.
Did the same with the replacement fence panel, so bought roll of poultry mesh the full length of the garden, she borrowed a beefy energiser we use for the cattle, both dogs instantly stung their noses and decided to stand back, from then on.
I know someone who uses this below a normal strand of electric, to corridor a public footpath, keep dogs from roaming his field, need to put signs up for FP, but that would probably do what you need. However, if someone keeps turning off your current - any electric fencing will have limited value against a determined pony.
Maybe you deliberately let yours into her patch to eat everything available, to make the point?
 
ItIsILeclucer said:
Can you get a solar panel charger to keep the battery charged at all times, they aren’t overly expensive and do work well
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My battery is always charged but someone switches it off
Exasperated said:
Well, there’s poultry mesh electric fencing? Shouldn’t get a horse hoof thru that.
My sister has an Alsatian dog, garden fenced with 2metre high panels down one side, behind which a very full of itself male retriever came to live - loads of aggressive barking, and one /both of them burst through - dog shaped hole in the fence, fighting.
Did the same with the replacement fence panel, so bought roll of poultry mesh the full length of the garden, she borrowed a beefy energiser we use for the cattle, both dogs instantly stung their noses and decided to stand back, from then on.
I know someone who uses this below a normal strand of electric, to corridor a public footpath, keep dogs from roaming his field, need to put signs up for FP, but that would probably do what you need. However, if someone keeps turning off your current - any electric fencing will have limited value against a determined pony.
Maybe you deliberately let yours into her patch to eat everything available, to make the point?
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that’s a good idea I might see if I can buy some and maybe cut to run along the bottom. Frustratingly the wooden posts of my boundary to hers are rotten and go wobbly in winter
 
Do they live out full time?

Are there stables?

Every time the pony breaks in, put it in a stable and tell the owner she has to come down and sort it.

She may be more keen to resolve the situation after a few trips to turn her pony back out.
 
You can get low ohm resistance electric fence rope. It will deliver a zap far stronger than standard rope and tape. I’ve used/use it. I also beefed-up my energiser so it delivers 6K-8K. I keep the tape/rope very tight. Have the 5foot tall fence stakes 3 paces apart for determined ‘breach’ areas!
My horse is much better but used to escape anything - remedy was tight lines, 4 of them, and more post stakes than usual, aswell as a strong zap, caused him to retreat from even thinking of going through.
 
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I'd get one of these, doubt it will get accidentally turned off again 😉
 
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I'd get one of these, doubt it will get accidentally turned off again 😉
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Definitely won’t get turned off, but one hill farmer has had the entire vandal proof box complete with energiser stolen from his moorland! They’ve used a quad to getaway, apparently.
Presumably not likely with your fellow livery?!
 
PurBee said:
You can get low ohm resistance electric fence rope. It will deliver a zap far stronger than standard rope and tape. I’ve used/use it. I also beefed-up my energiser so it delivers 6K-8K. I keep the tape/rope very tight. Have the 5foot tall fence stakes 3 paces apart for determined ‘breach’ areas!
My horse is much better but used to escape anything - remedy was tight lines, 4 of them, and more post stakes than usual, aswell as a strong zap, caused him to retreat from even thinking of going through.
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Thank you. Does rope give a better zap than tape? Good point about sagging wire as mine sometimes does that
 
I don’t like mondays said:
Thank you. Does rope give a better zap than tape? Good point about sagging wire as mine sometimes does that
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Many budget tapes have a high ohm resistance, but there are tapes out there with a lower ohm resistance and therefore more zappy. There’s also some budget ropes out there with not many strands and high ohm resistance so it’s a questions of comparing the resistance numbers given by the suppliers.

Having very tight lines really did/does put off my gelding. Saggy lines showed him they move, tight lines looks more solid and impenetrable. Tight lines also give a zap quicker than loose lines, as the lines need to press against the furry body to deliver the zap. Their bare noses get zapped more easily with light contact but the body requires actual pressed contact to deliver the zap, so tight lines help to deliver this more efficiently.
 
PurBee said:
You can get low ohm resistance electric fence rope. It will deliver a zap far stronger than standard rope and tape. I’ve used/use it. I also beefed-up my energiser so it delivers 6K-8K. I keep the tape/rope very tight. Have the 5foot tall fence stakes 3 paces apart for determined ‘breach’ areas!
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This one is supposed to be the best

https://www.farmcareuk.com/turbo-rope.html
 
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