I am so annoyed at myself!

[FairyLights]

Have turned the yearlings out. As I was just closing the field gate the one I had hold of decided to chew the electric fence tape ,which has just had a new battery attached as it hasnt been working for a few days. You can guess what happened. He shot backwards at speed,pulled me and I let go of the lead rein. AAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I WASNT wearing gloves. How stupid is that! He then careered around the paddock coz the lead rein was chasing him , but after a couple of minutes I managed to catch him up and remove the head collar. I feel so stupid especially as I could have held on tighter I know,my instinct was not to get booted in the head,yes,no hat either. I am bl**dy fuming at myself.
I've no idea how it helps the situation posting this but need to let off steam. I only hope the yearling thinks the fence "got"him rather than me letting go.

 

[Chestnuttymare]

better letting him go than you being injured. Don't beat yourself up about it, all was fine and i bet he'll not try and chew the leccy fence again! lesson learned for him lol

 

[rhino]

It happens! Horse is fine, you are fine, good result

 

[ladyt25]

Maybe said yearling will now remember chewing those fences is NOT a good idea! lol. I know that panic feeling when then peg off in fear of the leadrope though - my youngster did it not long after I'd got him (my mean horsie decided to have a pop at him as i was leading him in). I thought he was going to kill himself but fortunately he was caught and was none the worse for his ordeal!

 

[forestfantasy]

Don't beat yourself up, these things happen!
I bet most people on here don't turn out in hats & gloves (unless its freezing), i know i don't!

 

[Apercrumbie]

Try not to worry about it too much. Even if he does associate you with that shock he will soon get over it. Far better to let go in certain situations and I don't think this one will have caused much if any damage.

 

[Piaffe63]

It happenes sometimes- dont worry! You did right to let go though- better than a nasty injury!!

 

[Tnavas]

The joys of cheeky youngsters! My Angloarab was silly enough to pick up a piece of the plastic off a baylage roll - I was opening it up for them. Of course it flapped at him and he ran in total panic with the plastic still in his mouth - one side of my paddock had a barbed wire fence with electric fencing in front of it - I had horrific visions of what might happen to him if he went through it - fortunately he finally droped the plastic and wandered back looking rather embarresed. Same horse had a panic attack when he noticed his front legs had white bandages on so ran backwards trying to get away from them. Surpridingly this horse is now competing succesfully in endurance.

Another time my Clydesdale mare put her nose on the fence by the gate as I was opening it - electrified Clydesdales take up a lot of space! not sure how I didn't get flattened there.