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My 4 year old 16.1hh cob x tb has a horrible habit of ploughing through my eletric fencing.
It is pulsing at every second, so turned up to full power run off a fully charged car battery.
I have three strands on tall poly posts, one at the top, middle and fairly low down. But she seems to bend in half and duck right under all three stands!?

Anyone have any tips, getting concerned with the grass coming through as she is pretty curvy as it is so really need to curb this habit. Energiser is supposed to be powerful enough to run 3000m of tape. I certainly don't have anywhere near that amount of tape on the energiser.
 
Does your horse wear a rug? If it does remove it . My cob has to go out rugless because if he has a rug on he does n't feel a thing from the fence. Does your horse escape to get food or company? Or is it random?
 
A horse on a yard I used to be on did this all the time. She touched his nose on it for a quick reminder and he never went near it again!
 
I agree if she wears a rug take it off but also when I had one that done this I made her touch it several times even if I had to push her into it and gave her a couple off shocks on purpose and she never went near it again.
 
My pony is like yours.... unfortunately If the fence is not the tallest posts you can get, he jumps it and I have to have 5 strands of wire with 2 energizers.
Can you put two lines of fence one inside the other?
 
It sounds bizarre but my lad will lie down and wiggle under the bottom strand. If I hadn't photographed him doing it I wouldn't believe it either. Your's might be doing the same thing. We have a strand about 6 inches from the floor to stop him. However he will also charge at a temporary fence knowing that it only hurts for a minute before it breaks. Great in Pony Club Picket lines!

You can either take the rug off - or I have known people sew conductive material into the rugs which is supposed to help conduct the charge to the skin if rugged. But you may need to lower the bottom strand to what seems to be a ridiculously low height. Of course she may then take to either jumping it or barging through it!
 
I think it very much depends on how she is getting through the strands, she really shouldn't be able to get under the bottom strand, if she is you need it lower or another one?

get a fence tester, they are cheap and you you can check the charge is going through, is it continous tape? are there lots of notes? is it touching much vegetation? is it well earthed? (should be at this time of year as damp enough but can be a problem in dry/frozen ground) all will reduce the charge.

Is she rugged? can it come off? if not I have been known (well rigged up for missc on here!) some of the really thick 40mm tape around the front of the rug to transfer the charge.
 
I totally sympathise with this problem as my welsh D Luna is an evil genius when it comes to electric tape – in fact; she is an evil genius when it comes to escaping full stop.

On my previous yards we tried everything – no rugs (one second of pain doesn’t matter), tape at three different heights (she just jumped it), tried the rope and thicker tape to try and deter her (“I don’t think so mum” as she cantered gaily through it).

With her, it’s mostly food orientated as she is prone to being barrel shaped and so has to be kept on the ‘fatty field’. Although, at one point, she was on decent grass, but all the paddocks were individual and she preferred to be with another horse and so just daily trotted through fence after fence until she found a paddock with another horse in it!!

At the last yard we were one, we resorted to putting her in the one fully fenced paddock. But she kept leaning over the top rail and breaking it…hence not very happy YO. So he then put a strand of electric tape on the top (can you hear my welshie sniggering??) and eventually, he ran a strand of barbed wire on the inside. This did stop her leaning over, but not to be outdone, and determined to eat her weight in grass each day, she used to kneel down like a goat and put her head sideways under the bottom rail!!!!!

On the new yard she is in another fully fenced paddock, but the grass is marginally better so she is not so bothered about trying to escape…just means I have to give her the tiniest handful of hay for the entire night otherwise her belly might explode!!!!!!

Sorry not to be more help….with ones that have figured out that one second of pain equals freedom, there is not much you can do to stop them!!! But hope Luna’s antics have at least raised a smile!!
 
Luna sounds exactly like my Haffie, Liesel. She will get her nose under the bottom electric (which is on) ignore the pain of the electric shock and just turf up the fence and dive underneath it, all 3 strands. She isnt rugged at all so that isnt insulating her, she just wants more grass. Ive seen her do it.

She is currently in a 7 foot high fenced (horsemesh hahaha!!!) field with a grazing muzzle on :-))) Nightmare!
 
Totally sympathise I have a welsh section A (also an evil genius) who just gallops through electric fencing or jumps it. I have had to resort to a naughty paddock with stock fencing.

she's too clever for electric fencing!
 
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