My horse keeps destroying his fencing whatever it is!!! HELP

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Hello everyone

i have not ben on here n a while so a bit rusty, but well my 7 year old tb X sec d is on a sebatical at the mo as i am 8 months pregnant so he is not doing much.

But we have tried post and rails which he puts his head nder neath and actually pulls the posts out of he ground, we have tried putting barb wire where he puts his head and we have reluctantly tried plain barb wre fence which he leans over and ruins, he does not respect electric fencing even when its free range chicken voltage.

please can anyone help with any suggestions as to what i could do to keep him his side!!!

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I keep my horse on metal stock fencing and now swear by it. It's like post and rail but made of metal, and there are more horizontal bars, so I doubt he could get his head through it to pull it up, and if he did, its blooming heavy so he shouldn't be able to pull it out of the ground!
The downside? I think its fairly expensive.
 
Are you sure your fence is hot enough? Use very heavy duty barbLESS wire with enough currant and you can't go wrong so him leaning on it makes no sense to me. If it is hot and strung tight and proper he wou;d have to have no sense of feeling to want to lean on it.

I would never ever ever ever consider barbed wire as an option for a horse with no respect for the fence. That is a death or severe injury waiting to happen.


Is he alone? The friend suggestion is not bad either
 
Thanks guys for all your suggestions, the electric chicken fencing is 2000 volts, and when i had electric tape to it last summer he ran straight through it then had to go ino box rest as the white tape cut into his leg, he simply has no repsect for fencing!

i take him for walks and so does my family but he is the best horse ever to me of course!!! and helped my instructor break him in and my friends are not that conifdent to ride him as he is strong but you have to know how to give him his head which they dont understand and i am worried he will get nervous or hurt so would rather he has a holiday, a freind i have thought about a donkey but dont think that would stop him destroying fence!

he is mentally still young, as first year got turned away, second year i had kidney out, last year he hurt his leg and had the 9 stiches and now this year i am pregnant so every year so far he has had a rest, hmmm not great so dont want him spoiled. he has a super temperment and an amazing jump.
 
My horse DIED as a result of an accident involving barbed wire in his field. PLEASE don't use it, it is dangerous, potentially lethal stuff.

Electric fencing should be the way to go - when you say chicken strength, is it not strong enough voltage for a horse to be bothered by it?
 
Friend, friend friend.....he is lonely, has nobody to "look out" for him.
He is anxious and needy because of it.
Horses are herd animals, not really designed to live alone.
If he has a buddy in his field, he is far more likely to be settled and secure....and not so much into fence trashing!
 
Although 2000v sounds high it is not as high as mine. My fence tester reads 4000v. One of my ponies had no repsect for the electric fence and would just put his head down and canter through it when it was on a battery. I bought a mains electrifier and he hasn't touched it since!
 
I think the friend thing is looking more like a must, they need homes for donkeys during winter too, could see what he is like with a donkey first maybe before buying another. He has 12000 free range chickens around him an lives right outisde my parents house.
 
2000V is not enough. You need 4000-5000V going through the tape/rope. I find that some horses need really high posts (5ft) and at least 3, maybe 4 strands of tape/rope with the above voltage. The energiser probably needs to be more powerful if you are running a poultry fence and horse fence. Also check the ground line, posts and any hedging and remove anything that could cause shorting. Hopefullly he'll then learn to respect the fence.
 
He just needs some horse company hun. He's shouting as loud as he can but you're not hearing him. And if you succeed in finding some form of fencing that will keep him in, you run the very real risk of him getting more and more and more unhappy. Unhappiness can show in all sorts of ways: depression, cribbing, wind sucking, weaving, fence walking, losing condition, behavioural AND ridden problems and even ulcers and colic. Get him a friend or two and he'll forget the fence and settle down to be a horse.
 
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