Electric fencing dilemmas

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elijahasgal

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Wondering if anyone can give me advice
I have a super horse (or two;) ) but my old boy drives me nuts

With electric fencing

The yard I am in does not have mains, which would solve the problem, BUT
this is where I am

I have to fence off some trees where he is at mo as per the request of owner. He seems to see it as a challenge

He is the ultimate electric fence destroyer

First port of call he pulls the posts out the ground with his mouth
soloution 1, wrap the tape below the top
his answer, be really really careful....the look on the old sods face......
so do it more thourghly
second attack....aim for the fence unit
me....hide it
him.....attack the fence more thourghly, so that it breaks, pinging the clips off the unit, and breaking them
me, put it more out his way
him, sulk....then onto phase 3
kick the posts till they break
me HELP!

then comes jumping if I divide field, which i can manage to a degree IF i run a second line about 8ft away BUT when he jumps he trails his back legs so that he pulls the fence down for everone. And often the posts go flying, and they got long nasty spikes.......

I hasten to add that these rounds of attacks come on fences that are ONLY a few feet in from the main fence, including a second line of fence 2ft from a boundary. He only jumps within "his" land, not out (thank God)

worse in his winter rugs

Any ideas anyone?!!!
 
Only suggestion I can think of is to properly fence off the trees with a solid fence.
If anyone can come ups with a cure for horses being too bright for the fence I would love some tips
Pony 1 carefully pulls the red lead of the fencer
Pony 2 climbs through on or off no difference now have 5 strans four inches apart on mains unit
Pony 3 the biggest challenge is a veteran 18 year old highland in a turnout rug showe walks up to a 5ft fence and pops over it just going out now to get soaked again adding the plastic posts to the top of the wooden ones in an attempt to stop her jumping over we will be about 6ft 6 at that point do you think that will stop her hate to think what she could do if she too a run at it
Pony 4 is terrified of the fence and caused a lot of fuss being taken through but at least doesnt trash it
 
Crumbs, I thought mine was bad and he only takes them down if they're off!
As a half-way house, I have several bits divided off using proper knocked-in fence posts but with electric rope rather than wire. You can obviously run a current through the rope, but you can also remove it fairly easily if you want to. It's much more secure than the plastic posts and tape.
 
You may well find that the shock from the fence is not enough to deter him. Especially as you are using a battery powered unit. You don't say which make or the important bit, IE How many Joules output. Second most important bit is the Earth post. I Metre deep at least. Then to give max shock effect, run a second fence line from the earth stake, run it parallel to the live wire, but one post notch or two away. Ensure this "earth line" does not touch the live wire in any position and ensure the wires are taught on their insulators. Now your horse has two ways to receive a shock. 1) Normal method=touch live wire, shock goes through horse into soil back to earth post=circuit complete=Zap (strength depends on resistance in soil, length of earth post etc) 2) Earth return method. Horse touches live fence wire and your new earth return wire at the same time=shock goes through horse and then will find the path of least resistance back to the energiser, this will be via the earth return wire and thus a more strong Zappp will be delivered to Neddy. Hopefully persuading him that fencers are no fun. Just an idea I have seen used to improve fencing.

regards

Ian (The Engineer)
 
Blimey - your boy really is a demolition expert. Please don't ever let him talk to mine! Two of them do a really neat bit of fence testing using their whiskers, and if it's turned off - then the fun begins! I've not had them pull fences up by the posts yet, but I know what you mean about the jumping with back legs trailing . . . and the shetland just walks straight through regardless. He even does it when the fence is on!

Might be worth investing in a fence tester so you can see where there are any breaks in the conductors within the fence - if you don't already have one. One thing that I've discovered thanks to the ponies testing with their whiskers is that they are very good at finding weak points to break through at. Even if the fence looks fine it often isn't especially if it is one that has had to be put together again fairly often.
 
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