Native ponies with rubber coats who dont feel electric...HELP (again!)

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My fields are post and rail around the outside and then divided into paddocks with wooden posts and double stranded thick electric tape. The electric is strong (the kind that makes your jaw lock if you get a zap) and the battery is replaced every 4 days as well as having a solar panel.

So my fencing works!

The trouble is, I have a very thick skinned native livery pony, whose hair clearly is made of rubber as he manages to escape on a daily basis from his field but going under/pulling down the fence. No other livery ponies do this, nor do any others escape (unless he has made a clear gap for them)

I am getting really fed up of pony retrieval/fence fixing. My question is - whose responsibility is it to do this? It is a DIY yard, I provide clean stable/nice fields/water troughs etc, but nothing else.

Also, how do I stop it? Any tips, other than tethering (!!!!!)
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Ooooh Kate you're evil!

She will then rug it which will have the same effect.

I am seriously contemplating just letting it roam free, it does anyway and will be safe, however if I do that no doubt it will want to be back IN the field and not on the path, and go the opposite way.

Seriously, why cant everyone have a thin skinned dopey tb?
 
Sorry, can't help you but I had a pony who used to trot up to the electric fence, bite it and hold on to it for a second or two and then leap in the air and shoot off....only to come back 30 seconds later. He clearly loved getting the shock! He would also roll under it to escape. It's easier not to bother trying to keep them in somewhere.
 
i knew of a pony that did this and they only answer was to put another line down but not too low of course and put stronger battery to it...never did it again! was a strong little so and so too who didnt care if you were in his way
 
Is the fence tensioned enough?It needs to be really tight so there is no give.
I would also clip his chest but as you say, if they'll just rug up then you'll gain nothing.
 
my lad did this at an old yard. In the end we left him in the field he jumped into. Problem solved, well it worked with him might be worth a go id possible.
 
Try running some more tape or polywire parallel to the live lines, ensure that they do not touch the live lines and connect them to the earth stake of the fencer. When neddy goes up against the fence, he will get a much better ZAP, because normally the current goes down the fence,through neddy and back through the soil to the earth stake. With the parallel wires, the shock goes down the fence ,through neddy and straight back on the return wire, this gives less resistance to the current and a greater shock. Possibly worth a try, also as mentioned by A N Other, make the tension tight, a slack fence is a bad fence...good luck.
 
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