Fence Destroyer! What to do

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emmah1979

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We've got a pony at he yard that is quite happy to smash through the wooden fences when it wants to get to the other side. Starting to get expensive in replacing fencing. It has absolutely no respect for boundaries and the previous yard have said that it has the same disregard for electric fences!
What to do to discourage the little monkey. I suggested hobbling!
 
It needs to go into a training paddock for a spell.

That is a paddock about an acre with permanent electric fencing from a mains energiser. Every decent yard ought to have one. Put all the power through the fence -- end of problem.

I can probably get around 5,000 volts through the fence to mine. After that, horses come out fence shy -- and with frizzy hair! My fences are off a lot of the time but the horses never go and check!

Have a look at the electric fencing company sites (Gallagher, Hotline, Electric Shepherd, etc) and check that your fence is designed properly and is working as it should.
 
emmah1979 said:
We've got a pony at he yard that is quite happy to smash through the wooden fences when it wants to get to the other side. Starting to get expensive in replacing fencing. It has absolutely no respect for boundaries and the previous yard have said that it has the same disregard for electric fences!
What to do to discourage the little monkey. I suggested hobbling!
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Is the pony wearing a rug cause I have found that they very quickly come to realise that their rug gives them the protection they need from a shock? I have our fence running off the mains through an energiser which drops the mains voltage to 12v which gives them a nasty nip if they touch it but I have known several over the years to push through but on,y if they have a rug on so if this is the case take the rug off let it get a shock and that may sort the problem?failing that tell them to repair and pay for any damage or move off! Fencing is very expensive and other than wear and tear, it's not your responsibility to keep paying fir wanton destruction
 
WinkingWillow said:
Is the pony wearing a rug cause I have found that they very quickly come to realise that their rug gives them the protection they need from a shock? I have our fence running off the mains through an energiser which drops the mains voltage to 12v which gives them a nasty nip if they touch it but I have known several over the years to push through but on,y if they have a rug on so if this is the case take the rug off let it get a shock and that may sort the problem?failing that tell them to repair and pay for any damage or move off! Fencing is very expensive and other than wear and tear, it's not your responsibility to keep paying fir wanton destruction
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Meant to say we line our post and rAil with thick metal wire so their us a constant current going through it?tape is useless for ponies like this one!,
 
I saw an advertisement for a rug that has an electric conductor in it so if the pony touches an electric fence wearing it it still gets zapped. Don't know what they're called but they'd come up on Google I expect. probably not cheap though. But neither is permanently fixing fences!
 
We are about to try a cattle wire on our escapologist will report when we finish insulating the posts and getting it properly stretched. It will be on the mains energiser with maximum number of volts through it so we will see
 
windand rain said:
We are about to try a cattle wire on our escapologist will report when we finish insulating the posts and getting it properly stretched. It will be on the mains energiser with maximum number of volts through it so we will see
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Will a horse see it? I don't think there is anything special about cattle wire except it is almost invisible. Unless, of course, you mean steel wire?

Every yard should have at least one paddock fenced with 2.5mm high tensile galvanised steel wire with properly insulated posts and supplied from a mains energiser with a proper earth. To make the fence visible, cable tie white tape to the top wire.
 
Dry Rot said:
Will a horse see it? I don't think there is anything special about cattle wire except it is almost invisible. Unless, of course, you mean steel wire?

Every yard should have at least one paddock fenced with 2.5mm high tensile galvanised steel wire with properly insulated posts and supplied from a mains energiser with a proper earth. To make the fence visible, cable tie white tape to the top wire.
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this is an existing known fence that up to now has been a boundary fence we are removing it from the posts re tensioning it and replacing the wire staples with insulators The tape isnt holding him, it just doesnt give a big enough crack so hoping the high tensile wire will do the trick I have tried just about everything else short of wrapping him in tin foil (joke) I dont know what else to try I did seriously think if putting copper tape on a break free head collar but it was pointed out to me that that may be a risk due to possible lightening strike
 
Post and rail with a tape of electric along the top? Our fence-destroyer escaped one too many times so this is what we have recently resorted to... no escapes yet and I haven't seen him so much as consider it. In our case the horse was leaning on the rails to snap them. Even though he might have barged straight through tapes of electric, the electric on top of the rail means he doesn't lean and the fence has remained in tact (so far at least!).
 
Your very lucky mine decided the post and rail with electric on top made and excellent step ladder oh for a dumb blond rather than a wicked black. He then decided if he sat on the rails they would break so that ended in an expensive bill
will let you know if the cattle wire works as short of tying his legs together or tethering him we are running out of options
 
We bought a new field recently that has a shared post and rail boundary with a livery yard. When we looked over it it had several broken rails, which were replaced by the seller before we moved horses on. As I have some sheep to tidy up around the horses we decided that we needed to fence inside. Chatting to various fencing folk, we went for horse net on relatively narrow posts (with huge strainers at the corners) this was topped off with a strand of fixed solid wire, topped by another solid wire strand in insulators. Horse net is really strong with much smaller holes that sheep net. Next door horses finally managed to break one rail on their side but our have learnt to stay well away. Even if they do try to sit on the fencing it acts rather like motorway crash barrier and flexes. Another plus is that this fence seems to have defeated the local fox population as we haven't seen one since we switched the energiser on (good news for the hens).
 
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