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Sorry about this iv got to have a rant my stupid nineteen year old horse has just gone though four eletric fenced fields to get into his summer grazing like he not fat enough god when do they ever grow up my six year old standing there looking at him in disgust at how naughty he is anyone got suggestion how to stop this because he rugged he cant feel it and he knows it. Thing is he in a lightweight i would take it of but he white and clipped I now have a problem now he knows the grass is there he will keep doing
 
Definately meat man.. I've told mt TB 9 year old gelding that if he keeps coming in with ripped rugs from playing with the others he's going to the meat man!! Stopped him straight away!!! hehehe!! Geldings never grow up!!
 
You attach some electric tape to his rug.
Around the widest part and up inside.

If he respects the fence when not rugged this should work.
 
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but I have a 24 year old just the same and the older she gets the worse she starts behaving, almost like for every year she matures she regreses a few mentally, nightmare. But at least he's not a doddery old thing, thats what I keep telling my self, plus I have come to the conclussion that not even the meat man is desperate enough to want my old mare, she would take a bit of chewing!!!!! and I would have to pay someone to take her so she'll just have to stay with me!!
 
a horse on our yard did this - he was clipped but owner took his rug off

he go tthe message pretty qiuckly when he got zapped lol

just take the rug off imo just for a short while.
 
They NEVER grow up! My old girl will be 30 in January. She still prances to the field, rears bolt upright, spins and double barrels, and charges round the field at any excuse. She demonstrates a beautiful piaffe and passage, and can still leap and buck, and generally misbehave. I keep telling myself she'll grow up when she hits 30. But it just isn't going to happen, is it? Oh well, I'll just have to keep laughing at her antics then :D
 
Oh rana please dont tell me iv got another ten years of it.Im now going of to kill myself i would really take his rug of but hes white likes mud and i hate grooming i should be gratefull he lived this long when you read of so many loseing theirs i just wish he was more grown up
 
Sorry....

My oldie was 37 when she was PTS. Yep, still cantankerous til the end - bouncing and leaping as I hand grazed her on the lush grass (she was laminitic so it was a nice treat for her!). She was also cream and loved mud.

How do I end up with these mad old animals?? Even the cat is prone to kitten-ish outbursts :D
 
Yep, more bad tidings. My girl was 39 when she died and the day before she died she decided I wasn't making breakfast fast enough so demolished a 4 strand electric fence to come trotting up to the yard.
 
Have you checked there is enough power to the fence and it is not being 'lost' on say wooden fence posts or anything like that? My sister's horse had little respect for electric fencing and I realised some of the electric was going donw the wooden post (I think, it was a while back). We recharged the battery and made sure the electric wasn't diverting off elsewhere and i stood and watched as he yet again tried to walk through it - he had a rug on at the time but blimey, they was a pretty loud crack of the fence - he certainly felt it! He has had more respect for it since - although, as it's only low, if he is in a smallish paddock and gets giddy he will just jump over it! I would double check what power is going down the fence.

However, as others said - they don't improve with age, they just get bolder!!! Lol
 
Interesting, some of the stories here about horses breaking through fencing, and it's intriguing what makes them behave like this. Obviously, the reasons are myriad and related to the individuality of the particular horse.

When I first got my mare a few years ago, her behaviour was awful initially, and I thought I'd made a dreadful mistake in buying her. I'd broken a couple of ribs at the time (non horse related incident), so was not very nimble, and finding riding impossible. Anyway, the horse itself was just a maniac and had a penchant for galloping full tilt from wherever she was to the field gate in a straight line. One afternoon she was a couple of fields away and decided to gallop to the gate. Unfortunately, her route took her through a dry stone wall, which she crashed through as though it wasn't there, scattering stone blocks in all directions, a stock fence was also flattened, snapping the wooden posts like matchwood. Having arrived at the five bar wooden field gate this too was left a pile of kindling. This took only a few seconds from start to finish. Although, she was so wild and unmanageable, she received not a scratch, you can imagine my relief, having witnessed all this. Once in her stable eating hay, calm as you please.

It turned out though, through a bit of experimentation, that she was intolerant to sugar, and once her diet was changed, she became a lot easier to handle, though riding was always exciting as she was still a bit unpredictable.

Anyway, she's had a lot of work put into her over the last couple of years and all the problems she exhibited are thankfully a thing of the past.

The conclusion I drew from her power and capability for destruction was that, little apart from eight foot motorway crash barriers, would stop her if she decided that she was going to go for it. Obviously this was not really an option.

Now our fencing consists of, polyprop electric around the perimeter of the fields, fixed to the top of stock fencing. At night she and my other halfs horse are brought in and have access to their stables which are left open and the yard area of hard standing. The yard area, which is quite an expance is secured with nothing more than two strands of 6mm polyprop rope stapled to three inch round wooden posts which are about eight feet apart. This has been in place since her intolerance to sugar was addressed, and she has never broken out, though either horse could if they so wished.

Only once have they broken through the ropes and this was on the night of a raging storm. The winds were later estimated at gusts of over 100mph. A neighbours trampoline was taken by the wind and blown over the field, as luck would have it, it was dropped on the roof of the OH horses stable. Panic ensued, and my horse followed her through the ropes. By the time they had got 20 yards down the drive, panic over and time to graze the lawn.

That night the winds were so bad we thought it safer to put the horses back out in the fields, as I thought the stables themselves would be damaged by the storm. In fact they were both a bit apprehensive about going back in the stables for a day or two after, quite understandable, really.
 
Another bearer of bad tidings. My 26yr old, one-eyed, COPD ned has built up about 100 ASBOs against him (in 5 yrs) for breaking through/squeezing under/jumping over every type of fencing known to man. He's reduced my long-suffering YO to tears when he crashed through a 300 yr old hedge just coz the grass looked a bit better the other side. YO keeps threatening to tie him up at the end of the drive with a selection of pointy sticks so any local children passing that way can poke him. He's as fat as a pig - it would take about 2 years for him to starve to death. Sigh.
 
well put out this morning true to form back though four fences in summer grazeing then my normally good to catch horse had me chasing him for a hour in the snow trying to catch him i could kill him finally got him and put grazing muzzle on ill teach him yer right decided to go back though all four fences now all fences are down running round 15 acres like something on speed surley theirs a meat man who wants him my poor six year is standing in the corner in sheer shock she french would never dream of being naughty
 
Perhaps get an electric fence tester and check it is going to that part of the fence? If not could be for a variety of reasons, bad tape, its touching some hedge/plant, its earthed by being wrapped aroud a wooden post, could be anything. A fence checker is brill as I found out last year when I had the same problem!
 
I would be interested to hear how you get on with the tape. My boy started doing this and we tried reducing rugs, bare horse, upping the electric but came to the conclusion that he is quite bright and knew that brief pain would be rewarded by all the lovely haylage stored near the fields.

In his case, he stopped being turned out at night at all (even in the summer), and was moved to a different field and brought in early. Now he knows he is only out for 3 - 4 hours he will stay put. However if the girls leave him longer he starts to yell for room service. Greedy b**ger!!
 
how high is the electric fencing on him? i had to buy the longest posts i could. now they are level with her nose and if she tries to go through i twinges her nose as well as the lower ones near her chest (with rug on she cant feel the one near her chest but now there is one nose high and she has been caught by it a few times she has learned (i took the top one down the other day and she just barged right through like normal , so the higher one went back up) and she hasnt been "playing" in other fields in a morning anymore. xxx
 
Your are right yorkshire dumpling they are chest height just where the rug is and im am going to get higher eletric poles hopefully he will hurt his nose but i stuck in at the moment because of the snow but will be bought as soon as i get out and can someone show me how eletric and rug thing works would be very interested in that. At the moment he won as he in my summer grazing with muzzle but i was hoping to have it cut for hay this year. Then he gonna moan because he got no summer grazing. IM very sorry for the horse who got hurt this morning hoping a speedy recovery horses hey cant live with them cant live without them
 
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