escape artist, any tips!

china

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iv had my new mare a week now and she has been in a field with my gelding but they have been seperated by fencing. shes a tart and hes a perv! well on wednesday she escaped but the bottom strand of electric fence was down so she just went under it, fair enough.

i have half of a field and someone has the back half, the owner likes me to leave a path down one side so they can get through if they want, we do both have our own entrances and i havnt seen anyone go down there in ages so dont really think its necassary anymore. so i have got alot of fencing! they are tall stakes and just had 2 strands electrified all the way round but she was just walking in between them without breaking anything! but she was going through the lot into neigbours part which has very very very lush grass and she looks like shes about to drop a foal shes so fat!! put a new battery on there to see if that worked and i put and extra line of fence infront of that on small fence stakes, she STEPPED over that and through the next fence into my geldings bit last night, he was happy to have company but i didnt know wether i trusted her with him. thismorning she has done the same thing but gone into neighbours lush grass and taken my gelding with her! they are both overweight and on bear paddocks so que me pannicking thinking there both gonna come down with lami! YO suggests to put 3 strands round, so i spent 4 hours this morning redoing the whole field and putting two fencers on it, but as im adding the 3rd strand and just getting near the end she puts her head throught the top one and steps through it, que me screaming across the field telling her shes pedigree chum 2moro! iv electrified it and she has got her head next to it listening to it! they are both in together now so its not like she want company, she is just being greedy, it wont be long before she gets out of that! i dont know what else to do? and not really sure if putting them together was a good idea, my gelding worrys me sometimes as he acts like a stallion!!
 
Mine have four or five strands of tape and connected to the mains fencer. If they still try, I turn them out soaking wet - they usually get such a shock, they stop for a while.
 
what fencer are you using..... I would be really surprised if you need 2 as long as you can connect the fences up as most will do several thousand meters or wire. am not sure 2 would work on the same fencing anyway? or did you have the outside fencing on one and the run on the small stakes on another one?

do you have a fence tester? They arent expensive and are very useful for checking what is going through the fence at the far point of the fencer you might find it isnt a lot.

What are you using to earth? given this dry weather if just on a stand it is highly likely the fencer is struggling to earth which will sig affect the charge... you can buy long earthing stakes for about a fiver.... use one of these and chuck a bucket of water over it.

guessing you have the tall horse stakes then? tbh I think I would have a min 3 if not 4 runs on those. are you using tape? what thickness?

Once fence is 100% working and giving a kick....I'd be mean and make sure she touched it :rolleyes:

I wouldnt be too worried about them in together if they seem ok. :)
 
im using one of those mosquitoe fencers the £80 ones with a 12 volt car battery, iv got one fencer on the top 2 strands then another on the bottom but iv just moved that to another fence behind. she got a zap off it when she first arrived as shes only ever had post and rail. it well into the ground so has got plenty to earth on. i might get a fence tester to make sure it reaches right the way round. i re did all of the fencing to make sure the electric had a smooth run. im using medium sized white tape. they seem fine in together now, she is giving the odd squeal. and he when all stallion mode and got his willy out and got an erection :O but then drama over haha! there fine now
 
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