Help - something breaking fence - ideas?

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So got to the yard at stupid o clock this morning and discovered top strand of fencing down (tape with tensioned wire behind) and my horse in the wrong field. Had minor heart failure as not only did I have to be on a train but I was expecting to find lacerated legs where he had failed to jump the tape/wire. Bottom strand at about 2ft still intact.

Get to him - horses all fine. Clearly nothing to do with them, he'd obviously just hopped over the bottom strand when top was broken (phew!).

General consensus is that it was a particularly stupid and inept deer (I know they usually go over, but....it wasn't the neds, so this is the next most likely thing, I think? - any other ideas?!)

So what can I do to stop this happening again do we think? My horse isn't prone to jumping out and the lack of marks makes me assume it wasn't him.

Anyone had this happen and got any bright ideas about how to stop it? I was considering tying strips of plastic bag to the fence to make it more visible - though god knows how that would help as the tape is white and a couple of inches wide, so not exactly hard to see!
 
Tape isn't energised, couldn't see bite marks because it was dark (!). However there is tensioned wire behind the tape (or in front, depending on what side you are standing!), and that was snapped too - there is no way on this planet anything chewed through that unless it was caught up in it, which it couldn't have been as it is one tensioned strand (if that makes sense) - something has def snapped it, prob by trying to jump it I think.
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Unless something has leant or fallen into a post further up the line to have a scratch and the weakest point went.

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Posts all fine.

Joanne - I would agree IF it didn't have tensioned wire behind it - it really is more than just a strand of tape, it's a proper wire fence!!
 
Yes, but even a proper wire fence has a breaking point that isn't always noticeable to the naked eye when it is tensioned then when resisted against, it will twang and hopefully doesn't take anyone's head off as it goes, just ask OH! Lucky horses if that happened this morning.
 
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Yes, but even a proper wire fence has a breaking point that isn't always noticeable to the naked eye when it is tensioned then when resisted against, it will twang and hopefully doesn't take anyone's head off as it goes, just ask OH! Lucky horses if that happened this morning.

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I am not sure it is as well maintained as your OH might like...
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