Has she seriously gone UNDER the fence?

[Not_so_brave_anymore]

As per the title really. Just found cheeky pony the wrong side of the electric, but only the BOTTOM strand has come loose- did a rather rotund 11.3 really wriggle underneath there?! (fence is battery powered, and yes- the battery was low!)

 

[Christmascinnamoncookie]

Probably. My mate’s Welshie used to regularly roll under the wooden fence.

 

[MissTyc]

Oh yes. We had a mesh section and every now and then the mesh was lifted ( the hole looks like it would fit a big dog) and the 12.2hh pony is missing ... Is immune to electricity, apparently. Now had a pallet fence!

 

[Not_so_brave_anymore]

Probably. My mate’s Welshie used to regularly roll under the wooden fence.

No way?? Good thing all the perimeter fences have sheep wire at least!

 

[NLPM]

Wouldn't surprise me... We had a little 13hh Houdini here who would go through every spider web I created for her. My fencing looked hideous!

Sometimes my neighbours would comment on how they'd seen her wiggling back through in the morning ("just about five minutes ago! You've only just missed seeing it yourself!") so I would find her where I expected... Could be coincidence and good timing on her part but I suspect that it was deliberate when she heard me coming - she was a smart little thing!

 

[Pedantic]

My boy learnt how to limbo dance under the bar at his stable, then trot off across the yard

 

[JJS]

My 16hh gelding did this as his party trick, although he was also quite happy to go over the top too! Electric fencing - even with the voltage turned up - was not an option if you wanted him to actually stay in the field.

 

[LadyGascoyne]

As per the title really. Just found cheeky pony the wrong side of the electric, but only the BOTTOM strand has come loose- did a rather rotund 11.3 really wriggle underneath there?! (fence is battery powered, and yes- the battery was low!)View attachment 55395

I am so glad I’m not alone ??

Mim has done that this week, and has actually pulled something doing it. She has crawled under, on her knees. I could see the mud on them. Not a care in the world about being electrocuted.

I have spent the whole weekend playing Pony Prison, and have fenced the entire place like Alcatraz.

 

[Christmascinnamoncookie]

No way?? Good thing all the perimeter fences have sheep wire at least!

She did it all the time, she’s 26 and still an absolute character!

 

[LadyGascoyne]

Prowling the perimeter this evening ?

She’s 15hh!

 

[criso]

My old tb used to put his head between top and bottom strands and step over the bottom strand so fence was round his belly then walk through. He didn't do it when the current was up but would wait for someone to turn off the electric. He also limboed under chain/rubber stable guards

 

[sue_ellen]

Some years ago now we had a section A who constantly escaped from his electric fenced paddock. The electric was from the mains, it had an extra low third strand, and he definitely didn't jump out but would constantly appear in the lush empty paddock next door within half an hour of being turned out. And he definitely wasn't crawling or rolling under either! And no one ever seemed to be able to actually catch him in the act either.

Until one afternoon when I had to go back down to the fields - just in time to see him hop down into the drainage ditch and walk straight under the fence!

So I spent the next hour trying to block the ditch off with old fence posts to put an end to his antics!

 

[misst]

We had a shetland who rolled/commando crawled under the bottom of his post and rail - he was another who would come back when he felt like it. Old girl jumped post and rail with electric on the inside to spend the night in with the geldings then jumped back in the morning - she was late teens and barely 14h. Where there's a will there's a way.

 

[Louby]

We have a 2 yr old Highland, I witnessed him jumping over the electric fence the other day! I could understand if we had no grass but the fields massive and theres plenty left. Im dreading Winter lol

 

[LadyGascoyne]

We have a 2 yr old Highland, I witnessed him jumping over the electric fence the other day! I could understand if we had no grass but the fields massive and theres plenty left. Im dreading Winter lol

At least yours jumps!

BSJ don’t do a class where the horse crawls under the jump yet. Mim and I are eagerly awaiting a change in the rules so we can start our competitive career.

 

[Louby]

At least yours jumps!

BSJ don’t do a class where the horse crawls under the jump yet. Mim and I are eagerly awaiting a change in the rules so we can start our competitive career.

Ha ha, he's meant to be a companion to our girls but is turning into a bloomin houdini and getting more cheeky every day

 

[Pippity]

At least yours jumps!

BSJ don’t do a class where the horse crawls under the jump yet. Mim and I are eagerly awaiting a change in the rules so we can start our competitive career.

I'm hoping for a class where the horse stops dead, carefully knocks down the fence with a front leg, then ambles over it.

 

[Not_so_brave_anymore]

I love all these stories of your various escape artists!

 

[teddypops]

My sec A would just go through that. No matter how tight you pull the tape, it still isn’t tight enough!

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

We had a Section A who rolled under fencing. She was lucky she didn't roll straight down the hill and into the dam at the bottom! She can only have done it to prove to herself that she could because the grass on the ohter side was no better than that in her field.

On one occasion, she was in a different field, a fellow livery was taking a feed bucket to her horse in the next field and suddenly the Welshie appeared behind her! She must have negotiated a drystone wall topped with wire, without causing any damage to the wall or letting us see her, which was bizarre as we were there to feed our 4.