Never seen anything like this - Brocken Fence

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My horse must have had a serious fright today. I don't know what caused it. I found a broken section of fence today with three broken rails and one broken post . Never seen so much damage caused by a horse. I dread to think of the damage that would have been caused to the horse if it had been barbed wire. Horse appears un-injured and without a mark on it. (Luckily I had rugged it up that morning because of heavy rain).

 
Yes many times until I got sick and put electricity on all our fences that stopped the little wreckers .
 
Typical horse crash into fence - look at the skid marks and be glad it wasn't the gate as that would have probably injured the horse.
 
Glad your horse is o.k. - looks like he didn't stop in time after hooning around the field, you should have seen my stable a few years ago, itchy pony managed to demolish the front wall :eek:
 
Mine can move a stable just rubbing her big bum so post and rail would last about 5 minutes without electric fencing inside it
 
So sorry to hear that your horse suffered a life ending injury SpottyDottyPony. My deepest sympathies.

From the hoof prints it looked as if he was quietly grazing and then suddenly took fright at something and took off heading blindly toward the fence, put on the breaks too late and skidded on the wet ground colliding with the fence.
 
Patterdale said:
If you've never seen such damage caused by a horse, your horse must be much better behaved than mine! :D
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Very much this ^^^

My houdini gradually widened the bars of an old 5 bar gate and then magically one day he climbed through the middle of it to greet me in a field he wasn't meant to be in!:D I was peed off at the time but hats off to him...I was impressed!
 
This is the main reason I have been slowly but surely replacing all post and rail fencing on my farm. I became so fed up of horses bombing around and not being able to stop in time so they crash into the post and rail fencing. I have mostly all vinyl fencing on my farm now and when the youngsters do find they don't have enough room to stop they just ping off the vinyl fencing with no injuries and no repairing fences for me.
 
When we used to keep ponies at home they destroyed our fencing and demolished an entire section I think by leaning on it to reach long grass. We were always coming home to ponies escaped onto our lawn!
 
I've spent half my life repairing fences - many broken far worse than this! Very sorry to hear SpottyDotty's terrible news. The thing happened to a dear friend's horse and I had the job of staying with him till the Vet came - I've done that for six others too - it never gets any easier.
 
We had a yearling filly in our field who crashed through a solid wood gate (5 bar plus diaganols) and left it hanging on the hinges in multiple peices - not a scratch on the horse somehow!
 
My old boy did this, with my daughter on top. Literally slid into the fence. Luckily, we have horse netting, and he sort of bounced off it, throwing her clear.
Hate post and rail, your horse was fortunate to escape unharmed. I too have seen nasty injuries caused by rails splitting and going into the horse.
 
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