Horsey Houdini

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Does anyone have any advice on horses escaping from fields? No matter what I do, every winter my horse barges out of his field. He has company and I even put hay out when the grass isn't great. He doesn't go anywhere really just wanders around the yard but obviously its a concern - he could get run over in the car park or eat something he shouldn't. I use electric tape fencing, I am too scared to use wire in case it cuts him or gets stuck around his legs. He is a TB so I can't leave him without a rug - he doesn't do it in the summer as he can feel the shock when he is rugless! I have increased the height of my fencing but nothing seems to stop him.

Help needed! I can't keep him stabled all day as he hates it.

 

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Does anyone have any advice on horses escaping from fields? No matter what I do, every winter my horse barges out of his field. He has company and I even put hay out when the grass isn't great. He doesn't go anywhere really just wanders around the yard but obviously its a concern - he could get run over in the car park or eat something he shouldn't. I use electric tape fencing, I am too scared to use wire in case it cuts him or gets stuck around his legs. He is a TB so I can't leave him without a rug - he doesn't do it in the summer as he can feel the shock when he is rugless! I have increased the height of my fencing but nothing seems to stop him.

Help needed! I can't keep him stabled all day as he hates it.

Make sure your fencer is working to maximum efficiency and then wrap tape round the front of his rug and then next to his skin so he gets a belt.

 

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Thanks I have checked my fencing and it's all working perfectly.

You mean wrap the tape around his rug at the front? How will it make contact with his skin though? Or do you feed it through so that some of the tape goes inside? I'm going to get him a rug made of tin foil at this rate haha!

Thanks for your reply, it's just such a worry.

 

[Luci07]

Up the current as well. Presume he is in at night? I had one who went through a stage of that so YO upped the charge to his field massively and then let him zap himself. Did work, and he didn't do it again...

 

[Archiepoo]

my friend has a cob who breaks out of anywhere -but he just smashes the fencing down like tank. he only does it when hes hungry, i had him on loan for several years and he didnt do it once because i always made sure he had enough haylage. she has him now and all of her fencing is down and he wanders off to feed himself.! the only other thing i though of is he could be bored-maybe give him a jolly ball or a field lick or a few tubtrugs to sling about in the field.