Livery yard has barb wire fencing

[Roasted Chestnuts]

Auslander! It cost £20 metre + VAT (about 3 years ago). The wooden posts are pressure treated. The rails are pre-drilled before nailing in place to avoid the wood from splitting.

so probably about £35/£40 a meter now. Yeah I wouldn’t be doing it as a yard owner unless it was written into every livery contract that your horse breaks the fencing you pay the £40 a meter to fix it, wouldn’t keep many liveries that’s for sure or the livery would be extortionate to oay

Also people want the top class facilities and perks but the problem with that is the top class prices. Can’t have it all. I’d just do as I have always done and put my own electric on In front of the wire.

You could always ask if you can snip and remove the ankle height line? I mean other than keeping in sheep that’s no use to anyone.

 

[bouncing_ball]

If you dont like the standards at that yard, choose another one. Simples!

That only works if there’s a better yard that’s similar distance. Rarely is, most yards have a list of pros and cons.

 

[sport horse]

That is pig netting and it nearly killed one of my horses that got a foot through the holes but could not get the foot back.In its struggles the wire had tightened around the leg and was cutting into the flesh. I found the horse lying on its side with the foot trapped. I would rather turn out with barbed wire than pig netting. The proper, safe, horse netting has graded holes - getting smaller towards the bottom so that an inadvertant hoof could not get through. Sadly, as with all things equine, it is far, far more expensive. My last run of about 600m cost nearly £10,000 with the correct posts, strained and erected - that included dismantling and removing the old fence.

We would all love perfect fencing but it is very expensive and not at all cost effective for the average livery yard.

 

[Snowfilly]

Wouldn’t have any horses in with barbed wire down low. One strand around the top you might get away with but fetlock hight is asking for trouble.

As a word of warning, I saw an insurance company wriggle out of paying for surgery and stitches for a barbed wire injury saying it was negligence on the part of the owner. You might want to check first that they’ll cover you.

 

[Auslander]

Auslander! It cost £20 metre + VAT (about 3 years ago). The wooden posts are pressure treated. The rails are pre-drilled before nailing in place to avoid the wood from splitting.

It would cost me £20k to put that up round the perimeter of my yard, without even considering splitting the individual fields with it. I'm lucky in that I have mostly hedges, so it's not a cost I have to think about, but there is no way I could afford to do that for a part livery yard which is probably mid-priced for this area.

I have post and rail with stock fence along one side of my land, which was professionally done about 4 years ago - and the horses have pretty much destroyed it.

 

[HashRouge]

I have been on very few yards where the fencing is absolutely perfect. The most common is sheep wire with either two strands of plain wire or two strands of barbed wire at the top. In a big enough field I don't mind the barbed wire at the top, but would always prefer to have an inner line of electric tape to keep the horses away (especially on the line where the gate is). I do this anyway as my gelding crib bites, so it protects the fencing from him. Post and rail of the sort PN has looks gorgeous, but my gelding would have a lot of fun trashing that! On my current yard we have wooden posts with two lines of thick electric tape, with the top line high enough that my gelding can't crib bite. I find that pretty good, but would always like something even more solid between horses and the road.

 

[ester]

That is pig netting and it nearly killed one of my horses that got a foot through the holes but could not get the foot back.In its struggles the wire had tightened around the leg and was cutting into the flesh. I found the horse lying on its side with the foot trapped. I would rather turn out with barbed wire than pig netting. The proper, safe, horse netting has graded holes - getting smaller towards the bottom so that an inadvertant hoof could not get through. Sadly, as with all things equine, it is far, far more expensive. My last run of about 600m cost nearly £10,000 with the correct posts, strained and erected - that included dismantling and removing the old fence.

We would all love perfect fencing but it is very expensive and not at all cost effective for the average livery yard.

It's not pig netting/stock fence it's equi fence- the hole size is made for horses to not get a hoof through (obv issue with shoes still)