You could invest in one of those rugs that has electric conductor material on the front, then run two rows of electric fencing inside the main fence around 3/4 of a metre between each.
If she is such a good jumper would it be possible to let her go to a jumping home where she will be getting a lot of work, and stabled at night in winter .......... does she jump out in summer?
I feel your pain as my gelding used to be an absolute horror for escaping! The YO had electric fencing and it was useless! One day he got out of his field into the woods behind the yard. It was a terrifying hour trying to catch him as he hooned around having the time of his life while I had a meltdown!
Once caught I went out and bought the most powerful battery energiser I could find and a leisure battery. I bought brand new tape and proper connectors and I built him a 5ft tall fence, with 4 strings of tape. It was only a small paddock of about a 1/4 of an acre as I wanted it to hurt him. After I built it (and I feel awful saying this, but I was at my witts end and it worked) I wrapped tape around his nose, the top of his neck, bottom of his neck and chest and joined it all up to make a mesh. I then hosed him all over until soaked, put him in the paddock and then held a bucket of feed on my side of the fence. The shock he got was awful! He went straight up in the air about 4 ft, galloped off, screeched to a halt and skidded into the fence again, getting a further shock. He then stood in the middle, snorting and wide eyed and would not come any near it, not even for treats. I left him in there for a week or so (plenty of ad lib hay) while I re fenced his real paddock (double fenced in the area he got into the woods) and it completely cured him. He has only got out once or twice in the following 18 months and both were when the battery was flat.
This was him a few days after the fence was installed, and this is as close as he would come to it.
A friend of mine struggles to keep her Sec A in, so she has put up heras fencing on the outside of her post and rail with electric as a barrier. The pony used to barge the fence.
There are ways, but I wouldn't give up hope. Have you used a fence tester to see what you currently have going through your fence?
OP in your case bearing in mind potential fatal accident I would also hobble I know it won't be a popular answer but a friend of mine had to hobble a gypsy cob mare that she also rescued from a bad situation and the mare was fine with the hobbles
Thank you. I am not ready to take this step yet but if other suggestions fail I shall give it some thought. I do understand why it has been suggested, but having never done it before I am very unwilling to consider it at this point.
get some thick cable ties and secure the electric fence posts to the uprights of the post and rail, then run 2 or 3 strands of electric along it. This should make the fence about 8 foot high and should back her off if she gets to it.
This is how i am setting up my stallion paddock. I am removing the metal stakes from the bottom but in an emergency if you wrap them in duct tape and secure those posts to the outside of the post and rail you should be ok.
Then fence inside that (several feet) on the 6ft posts and 4 strands of electric.
Do most horses not need some sort of hobble training before using them though? I did think maybe tethering until fence sorted if OP could do so safely and fenced separately to the others.
The rugs are no different to using a strip of thick tape yourself or the horse not wearing anything.
I would definitely bib clip (so that in future fence can still get her) and go with a similar set up to haffychristmas - only danger is if they presume it is because you have put electric tape on them so when it is off they think ok again (hence bib clipping too).
He did touch it again once the tape was off and it still hurt him Even now, I get satisfaction from seeing him (or my ASBO mare) get a zap off the fence
This is how I fenced my small nursery paddocks, looks a mess but did stop fence hopping. The horses in the picture are not the fence hoppers. The horse it was set up for would not touch electric so would not jump through the wire.
AA, how did you fix the electric posts to the fence, I'm squinting at the pic and do I see the metal foot spike slotted through staples knocked into the post?This is how I fenced my small nursery paddocks, looks a mess but did stop fence hopping. The horses in the picture are not the fence hoppers. The horse it was set up for would not touch electric so would not jump through the wire.
I feel your pain as my gelding used to be an absolute horror for escaping! The YO had electric fencing and it was useless! One day he got out of his field into the woods behind the yard. It was a terrifying hour trying to catch him as he hooned around having the time of his life while I had a meltdown!
Once caught I went out and bought the most powerful battery energiser I could find and a leisure battery. I bought brand new tape and proper connectors and I built him a 5ft tall fence, with 4 strings of tape. It was only a small paddock of about a 1/4 of an acre as I wanted it to hurt him. After I built it (and I feel awful saying this, but I was at my witts end and it worked) I wrapped tape around his nose, the top of his neck, bottom of his neck and chest and joined it all up to make a mesh. I then hosed him all over until soaked, put him in the paddock and then held a bucket of feed on my side of the fence. The shock he got was awful! He went straight up in the air about 4 ft, galloped off, screeched to a halt and skidded into the fence again, getting a further shock. He then stood in the middle, snorting and wide eyed and would not come any near it, not even for treats. I left him in there for a week or so (plenty of ad lib hay) while I re fenced his real paddock (double fenced in the area he got into the woods) and it completely cured him. He has only got out once or twice in the following 18 months and both were when the battery was flat.
This was him a few days after the fence was installed, and this is as close as he would come to it.
A friend of mine struggles to keep her Sec A in, so she has put up heras fencing on the outside of her post and rail with electric as a barrier. The pony used to barge the fence.
There are ways, but I wouldn't give up hope. Have you used a fence tester to see what you currently have going through your fence?
This is how I fenced my small nursery paddocks, looks a mess but did stop fence hopping. The horses in the picture are not the fence hoppers. The horse it was set up for would not touch electric so would not jump through the wire.
get some thick cable ties and secure the electric fence posts to the uprights of the post and rail, then run 2 or 3 strands of electric along it. This should make the fence about 8 foot high and should back her off if she gets to it.
This is how i am setting up my stallion paddock. I am removing the metal stakes from the bottom but in an emergency if you wrap them in duct tape and secure those posts to the outside of the post and rail you should be ok.
Then fence inside that (several feet) on the 6ft posts and 4 strands of electric.
My mare was bought as a hacker when she was a yearling , she's been kicked off farms etc since I've had her as she jumps everything . The only tape that kept her in was double stranded and then another set of five foot posts two foot away form the first ones all connected to mains . She sponge in livery behingpd metal wire on mains fence , one hedge is 4 foot high with a 4-6 foot hedge and she was popping that from a standstill so now has wire in front of it , she checks the fence all of the time and gets a bang off of it and stays away she's rising 5 now and hops jumps in the school from trot at 95cm plus with me on board . See it as potential and embrace it when she's broken in . She will make a scooby hunter or Xc horse . My mare is awesome acorss country . Hay haylage even buckets of feed didn't keep her in she was a knob . She's growing out of it now too . She will let you take horses away from her too now ! She's jumo out of stables before for fun now she will stay in there for weeks of needs be