no fence?

[spotty_pony2]

www.nofence.co.uk

This just popped up on my facebook ads. I think it’s more for cattle but still - crazy how you can draw out and program where they can and can’t go with just your phone! I thought the collars they wear must be electric but apparently you have to teach them to respond to the noise it makes if they go in an off limits area.
not sure how successful this would be with horses? Mine would probably ignore it if they wanted the grass!

 

[Ddraig_wen]

Geofencing Is used quite successfully around the world for cattle, sheep and goats. The collars emit a noise as a warning and then a pulse/shock when the animal goes through the boundry line, it then turns off after a certain distance and allows the animal back into the enclosure without shocking them.
Ive come across a few individuals who've learnt to manipulate the collars by wearing down the battery or they've just plain ignored the collar because the grass was better. The boundary can drift too I've heard.
I remember asking the company at a show if they were thinking of doing horses but they didn't think so at the time.

 

[Equi]

I don’t think it would work for horses. They step back from a fence shock because they understand the fence has shocked them. If the shock was just on their neck, they would probably bolt to try and get away from the shock and all hell would break loose.

 

[little_critter]

Given my mare ignored electric fencing when she fancied, I don’t see this working for the more determined horses.

 

[LadyGascoyne]

Mimosa would be in Scotland by nightfall.

 

[GoldenWillow]

A neighbouring farmer has used similar but using the type Ddraig_wen mentioned rather than just noise. They use it for conservation grazing, their experience of it has been that it works to a degree, it generally keeps them in the area they are supposed to be in but cannot be 100% relied on. They would not use it without secure boundary fencing.

 

[Jenko109]

Horses are not stupid. If a cow or a sheep or a goat can learn how to navigate it, then I don't see why a horse can't.

That said, I'm not comfortable with it and would not use it with my own horses. Teaching a horse to be concerned at the sound of a beep, is IMO, setting them up to fail.

 

[DabDab]

Horses are not stupid. If a cow or a sheep or a goat can learn how to navigate it, then I don't see why a horse can't.

That said, I'm not comfortable with it and would not use it with my own horses. Teaching a horse to be concerned at the sound of a beep, is IMO, setting them up to fail.

Yes, this. Physical boundaries are something that horses instinctually understand and if that physical boundary also happens to be spiky or zappy then they can still rationalise it fairly easily. But geo fencing seems manipulative - you're introducing a source of pressure into their world and just hoping that they work out how to release that pressure with no physical cues to help them. The potential for unintended associations would I think be fairly high.

I can see it's place with purely grazing animals but not with horses. Well I certainly wouldn't do it with mine anyway...I want them to be able to trust the environment that I put them in and be able to relax in it.