Ideas re jumping out of field?!

fibelle

fibelle

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Hi, just wondered if anyone had any ideas about how to stop this? My 6yo is turned out with a companion but jumps out of the field when his friends in the next field are taken in /when he thinks they've got better food than him/when it snows etc... There is plenty of grass & he has haylage when the weather is poor. I'm worried he's going to get out on to the road one of these days plus he's driving the YO mental! He's done it @ three different yards so it's not just our current place.

Any bright ideas?!
 
fibelle said:
Hi, just wondered if anyone had any ideas about how to stop this? My 6yo is turned out with a companion but jumps out of the field when his friends in the next field are taken in /when he thinks they've got better food than him/when it snows etc... There is plenty of grass & he has haylage when the weather is poor. I'm worried he's going to get out on to the road one of these days plus he's driving the YO mental! He's done it @ three different yards so it's not just our current place.

Any bright ideas?!
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The only thing I found to work is electric fencing around the inside of the fence. It should be about a metre and a half away from the outer fence.
 
Start entering him in SJ shows:

you get ribbons, he gets tired of jumping in and out (because itll seem more like work than play), win win! :P¨

sounds like you have a future GP youngster with you. good luck finding a real solution (although really, start competing him!)
 
My horse is also a field jumper........... and has jumped into gardens and on to the road to join another horses! He now has a 6ft fence and gate along the road side and a double fence with electric (thick white tape) as wagtail said. this has worked a treat and he no longer appears in the neighbours gardens or joins people out hacking without me!
 
My horse fence and gate hops again he has done it on three yards!!
We tried electirc fence both sides of the fence about 3 ft in making it about a 7ft spread - he still jumped just occasionaly brought the outer fence down. We then errected 8 foot post and electric fence which cured the problem on that side of the field so he jumped elswhere.

We seem to have cured the problem at the moment (touch wood) by turning him out with the mares!! He is quite happy in a 10 acre field with 7 mares!! Lucky boy!
 
I have the same problem, but just saw on Horse and Hound there's a rug that conducts electricity if they get close to the fence or touch it. Need a new winter rug so thinking about trying it, has anyone else used one? Not sure if it is new or if I am completely out of the loop!
 
My pony jumped out of his field today too over post and rail so I know how stressful it is when they do it (especially as my pony is meant to be taking it easy as he is recovering from an injury and had just started having a small amount of turnout after being on box rest for a few months). However he is on his own in a small paddock and jumped into a much bigger field with more grass (though his small paddock did have plenty of grass in it is as well). He is not used to being in a small paddock on his own where he cannot see other horses though as he normally lives in a huge field with a lot of friends.

Have you tried putting your horse in a bigger paddock with more horses so large choice of potential friends? My pony has only ever jumped out of his field once before when he has been in a big field in a large herd and that was when there was snow and the YO had not started to put hay out and he was probably hungry (he normally lives out).
 
Double fencing is definitely the way forward, plenty wide enough not to be an oxer but not wide enough for a bounce. mind you my buy then decided to jump the gate !?! Far too clever for his own good really.
 
Feel for you, my boy jumps out of fields then one day jumped out and fell in the wet weather and is now on box rest and has been for the last six-seven months as he has smashed his cartilage in his stifle! ):
 
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