If your horse escaped from the paddock?

Ours have escaped a couple of times as one of the horses rubs his bum on the gate and then he opens the look :@ and all the horses run out and run into the feed room eat each others feed and then run back into the field - its a good job they no when to stop and only eat a bit otherwise we'd have a stable yard of poorly horses. So now we are getting heavy duty chains and lock for all the gates so the little monkey will leave the gate alone lol.
 
Mine escaped once though I blame it all on the pony he was turned out with. I think the pony leaned on the gate, broke the fastening (it wouldn't even occur to mine to do this on his own) and they scarpered. And got about 10m away to some nice grass, where they were found the next morning, fat as pigs and lying down exhausted. They then decided they liked their new found freedom and didn't want to be caught but unfortunately my horse has to take the blame for leading the refusals to be caught as he was the one cantering around and evading people with headcollars!
 
At her current yard I think Annie would just stick her head down an eat.

When I first got her as a 4 year old she was a master at jumping out, be it a 5 bar gate or a hedge with a 6 foot drop on the other side. The first night I had her she escaped and managed to get in with other horses. They were running around in the dark until 11:30.

A few weeks later my Mum was driving us to school and heard on the local radio station that someone in the village had found a bay mare in their field matching Aniseed's description. Over night she had broken out, taken herself about a mile and a half down the road and jumped an electric fence to get in with some geldings. The poor lady had looked out her window in the morning to find an extra horse in the field and thought she had been dumped. Thankfully she had the sense to call the police and the radio, otherwise I don't know what I would have done if I'd got there in the evening and found her missing.

Thankfully she seems to have grown out of that habit!
 
Mouse once got away from me out riding, galloped down several main roads until he found some walkers, to whom he trotted up and licked their faces (??!) I found them holding his reins in a lane while he dozed, resting a leg.

Kitty gets out of her field all the time, she sneaks through the electric fencing onto the grassy bank. She is skilled at doing this :D she ducks and weaves veru nimbly.

My cousins horse jumped out of his field over a hedge bigger than him (and he was 17hh) and there was a drop on the other side. He broke his back on landing and was found the next morning. A farmer shot him :(
 
My friend's pony escaped yesterday lunchtime. He broke through his fence, scaled the muck heap, and over the fence at the end of it, which allowed him to get onto the A36, which he crossed and walked along and then went down the lane to the railway crossing - luckily he could not get onto the railway line. He had never been over to that side of the road before, being an unbroken youngster but must have sensed that there were horses down there. Luckily he was totally unscathed and had not caused an accident. Bit surprised tho' that no one had phoned the police, or if anyone had they didn't turn up, (actually I'm not surprised that they didn't turn up, lol!) because the A36 is a very busy road and the bit he was on is approached by a sharp bend. We couldn't believe that he had managed to get out. We are just thankful that he went down the lane which rarely has traffic, rather than carrying on up the main road.
 
When Titch escapes (very regularly unfortunately) she just goes into the nearest field and eats. If the others move away she then goes back in with them.

Genie has escaped on ocassion, and again it's for food.
 
My old horse used to escape out of his stable, go to his field and wait to be let in..... jumping the gate would of involved way to much effort!!
 
My old mare once escaped from the field by jumping through the fence onto the road. She went down the road to the main road, then decided she'd actually rather be at home and came back again to meet a very worried YO going to try and catch her at the gates to the yard.

My new boy has never escaped, but if he does I think he'll probably canter around the yard tracks to see all his new friends, and eventually stop to eat the grass. I doubt he'd leave as he hates being on his own.

As for the old pony, she'd go straight for were the open haylege bale is kept.
 
Mine would either go back to her stable, or the more likely option would be to stop off at the better grass.

My first pony got out with his field mates more than once. Once they were found on the village cricket green :eek::o and we were severely reprimanded.
 
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