Horse limboing under stable chain

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Oops Pidge despite being 16.3hh has managed to limbo under his chain again this morning! Any idea where I can get a totally metal one as this one is metal at either end and rubber in the middle - still don't know how he gets under though. Was mucking out whilst he ate his breakfast this morning, heard a scrabbling and turned round to see an empty stable
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and Pidge's bum disappearing round the corner. Fortuantely he stopped to say hello to Sunny so managed to grab his rug and waited for someone to bring a headcollar!
 
I hate these bloody things. They were the bain of my life at my other yard. I can't tell you how many horses ducked under metal ones, full webbing ones etc. One horse was very badly injured in the process. In the end they were totally banned.

If you value your horse - don't use one full stop.
 
You need to get one of the webbing ones that stretches across more of the door, they're a bit more fiddly but prevent escapees!!
 
A friend's husband made one for us - it is a length of metal pole, which can be slid across the doorway, and fixed with a removable screw in a bracket screwed into the wall.

I can probably get pictures if you (or know someone) are handy enough to make it, if you can't find one to buy.
 
Ooh dear that sounds awful, I never leave him with it on I always close the door, it's just I had my back turned whilst starting mucking out whilst he had his breakfast.
 
Have seen those, but wasn't keen on them as they seem to have lots of holes that hooves could get stuck in. IMO!
 
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Ooh dear that sounds awful, I never leave him with it on I always close the door, it's just I had my back turned whilst starting mucking out whilst he had his breakfast.

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No one left them at my yard either..........................
 
Most of the escapees just wandered off round the yard.

However the one that was damaged bolted for his field - slipped on the yard tarmac and fell. Fractured his skull, bad laccerations along the length of his body, and buggered tendon in one of his front legs.

They were banned after that. Too much risk to the horses and people. If someone had been in the path of the bolting horse they'd have been mincemeat - the horse wasn't stopping for anything.

I may be being over cautious. But I've just never seen the need for them personally. And after the experiences mentioned I was put off for life.

My mission is to convert you all..........................
 
Oh boy that sounds awful, poor horse. will certainly be far more careful using it in the future, thanks for the words of warning.
 
You can get one which is a very short pair of chains at each end then a deep 18" rubber section in the middle, no way they can limbo under that. don't know the price but know Leslie Sutcliffe carries them in stock (google lesliesutcliffe.biz)
 
i use the rubber one at one height then a leadrope at a lower height - but only under supervision otherwise she will try and get over or under.
i never leave her unsupervised with the chain across as she is an escape artisit
 
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Most of the escapees just wandered off round the yard.

However the one that was damaged bolted for his field - slipped on the yard tarmac and fell. Fractured his skull, bad laccerations along the length of his body, and buggered tendon in one of his front legs.

They were banned after that. Too much risk to the horses and people. If someone had been in the path of the bolting horse they'd have been mincemeat - the horse wasn't stopping for anything.

I may be being over cautious. But I've just never seen the need for them personally. And after the experiences mentioned I was put off for life.

My mission is to convert you all..........................

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Surely a horse barging through its slightly open door with no chain up could potentially do the same thing....

At home the ones that are good with theirs have the chains up and doors open whilst people are on the yard. The ones that may go under dont have the door left open
 
You need to be careful with the chains - horse at our yard was rubbing her bum on it, and the stable wall started leaning inwards due to the pressure on the chains...

The solid metal poles are excellent, very safe (stopped my heavy horse from leaning on her door and pushing it out of the wall) and has stopped another door banger escapee (she tried chain, and canvas, and still got underneath them).
 
Sister's horse does that hence he has 2 chains which seems to stop him walking straight through it, lost count of how many clips we've had to put on the chain before we did this.
 
Cobby used to do this, old owners reverted to using a galvanised bike chain cos he kept on snapping them... he then pulled the doorframe down instead...
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Some horses will just escape... I wont use one for G cos don't trust him, he tries to sneak out at every available oppurtunity....
 
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Surely a horse barging through its slightly open door with no chain up could potentially do the same thing....

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Absolutely - and we've all had experience of that. And I know plenty of people who use door guards with success. They just give me the hee bee geebees - and just see them as accidents waiting to happen.
 
We use chains and haven't had a problem, Toff escaped once so we adjusted it and now they aren't left unattended. It's purely for ease when skipping out/feeding/tacking up etc
 
Must admit I had thought that myself, which is one of the reasons we use chains on sister's horse Sunnys door, he is built like a brick **** house and does just barge you out of the way if he wants to go somewhere. so for safety we put the chains on, come out and shut the door and then lean over and take the chains off. It does mean that you can come and go without him escaping from his stable - he would rather be out 24/7 all year round but we can't as fields are like a swamp at the moment, can't explain to him tho!
 
My pony has a rubber one. I will have it across with the stable door open as he is unlikely to try and escape. However I would never leave ANY horse/pony with just that across if I wasn't around them, no matter how trustworthey they may be.
 
We keep our bar across the whole time the horse is in the stable, even with the door shut (i.e. overnight). It has stopped her leaning and pulling the door out of the wall, and barging. We can just pull it across when we want to get her in or out.
It's so easy just being able to duck under as well whilst she's in to do jobs - saves a bit of time!
 
I love those chains, its so easy to skip out. All of ours have them even the little filly. Only one of ours used to escape and that was only if they'd been in for a day or two. She even did it when heavily in foal.
 
one of the horses at our yard always used to do that, she had the same one as you. So when we put that up we used to tie a leadrope round the bottom hinge and the kick bolt, so they cannot get through.!! It isn't a very good idea as she tried to barge through her stable chain, broke it off and nearly fell over as she didn't step over the leadrope, so i think either don't use one at all, or if you really want one get a thick webbing one.
 
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