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Following on from jumping pony post yesterday.... Im now feeling very sorry for myself.
Pony thinks its a right laugh to jump out of field.. Ignoring electric fence. i literally sat my bum in the car to come home and he popped out.
I have no idea what to do. He wont stay in... Broke all three doors over the past few days. Hubby in work till sunday and im doing a long day tomorrow.
Hes been out everytime i have gone there today (3 times) and is a danger to himself and others.. The farm is on a main road. plus the farmer who owns the place is getting a little miffed. What am i going to do with him??
 
showaddy1 said:
Following on from jumping pony post yesterday.... Im now feeling very sorry for myself.
Pony thinks its a right laugh to jump out of field.. Ignoring electric fence. i literally sat my bum in the car to come home and he popped out.
I have no idea what to do. He wont stay in... Broke all three doors over the past few days. Hubby in work till sunday and im doing a long day tomorrow.
Hes been out everytime i have gone there today (3 times) and is a danger to himself and others.. The farm is on a main road. plus the farmer who owns the place is getting a little miffed. What am i going to do with him??
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Double row of fencing? Only thing that stopped mine was creating a spread....
 
Sorry haven't read your previous post or other suggestions but as a short term emergancy measure to prevent him getting loose on the road - hobbles or a tether? but you'd still have to spend a little time getting him used to them so he doesn't hurt himself
 
Billie1007 said:
Double row of fencing? Only thing that stopped mine was creating a spread....
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Oh if you haven't tried this definitely - one of mine has to have 2 rows of fencing too wide for it to be a spread and too close for it to be bounce !!
You then just have to work out what happens at the gate - two gates is a pain we have lots of hardcore and I think he realises it'll be to painful to land on/ take off from.

Also I'm assuming you have three rows of electric one plenty high enough (or it should be) one low enough to prevent limbo (I've seen my 17.1hh go under 1.5 foot tape!) and one in the middle to prevent the step over the bottom row and let the top row slide over the top arrangement!
 
Aw... I just want an easy life!! The front gate is shut for tonight.. I'll go up before work, and just get as many ppl as I can checking on him tomorrow... I can't do anything to the fences until I'm off work. I have tried tethering.. He's built like a small bull and snapped the headcollar. I've never hobbled and wouldn't know how too.
 
Just read your second post polosmum... The pony learnt to jump out last week in a bid to follow the love of his life who was being ridden. Never happened before. The fence is what was previously there, I rent the yard. Its stock fencing with barbe on the top... I've run a strip of electric which must be about three and a half foot from the floor. Id be impressed with his jumping ability if it wasn't so stressful. He's only 11 hands?!
 
I'm not sure one strip would do it, especially at that height he'll just be nipping under (not over) then jumping the stock fence. I wish I had photos of my big horse sliding along on his belly to get under before I lowered the fence enough, you wouldn't believe how flat he could get until you saw it!

Tomorrow get some more tape and do three strips of electric on plastic posts about 4 feet inside the stock fence.
 
If you have permanent fencing & pony is still whistling over, then tie the plastic electric fence stakes to every other wooden post for the 1st 9inches or so, then fit tape to top of posts, 1 or 2 lines will do. (will need a step to reach as it ought to be about 7ft. Cable ties or baler twine work well :)
I then add another line of tape on the inside.
That usually stops most of them - had to keep a 12.2 entire like that for a full summer show season every time he was turned out.
He spent the 1st month trying to bust out of the stable, but I'd been a step ahead - had got a sheep hurdle on the inside AND on the outside - both tied together, tho only took less than a min to untie or cut strings to get him out ;)

By the time he went home, he could be left in the yard in a normal stable on his own & also could be turned out with a gelding for company. His owner was amazed as he'd been trouble with a capital T for his 1st 7 yrs.....

OP - if you are really worried, get a weave grill with an infill & get that on the door tomorrow and try & borrow a sheep or cattle hurdle to turn on end inside the box - so he cannot clatter the door (and feet cannot get stuck) till you can do proper fencing for him. He may get cross but he'll have to live with it for safety & your peace of mind.
 
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