Oh dear silly horse got stuck

[Boxers]

The owner of the field that my horses are in has recently put a row of huge straw bales, 2 high, along one of the fence lines. I taped it all off so that my two couldn't stand and eat it.

Today I went to get them in at lunchtime and found that they had broken through the tape (not electrified) and Manni has managed to walk up between the bales and the fence which has hawthorn hedge on it too!

He had walked to the end of the row and was stuck because there was no way out. I tried to get him to back up but he just kept leaning sideways against the bales and his feet slid under the bottom rail of the fence. Also I was worried that he might leap forward onto me.

In the end the YM and to men from the yard came to help and we managed to slowly back him all the way.

He is such a calm horse and never panics. Thank goodness it wasn't Toby, I think he might have panicked and tried to jump the fence or something.

Manni is in his stable now, nice and cosy munching his hay.

I've been back to the field and re-taped it and have blocked off the end where he entered the 'tunnel'. I don't think he had been there too long as there were no poos where he was standing.

And boy is hawthorn prickly!!

 

[BFG]

Horses who would have them.......... (me)

The really do know how to put us though it dont they....

 

[dunthing]

Some years ago, my oversized highland managed to walk round the back of the stables and out the other end. I don't know how he got through as he's 15.1 and built like a heavyweight cob. The gap was about 14" but he squeezed himself through it. There were lots of poos round the back so it looked as if he's been grazing on hedges for a while. He also got stuck in a deep ditch when he was two years old. It took three fire engines and a tractor to haul him out. They had to put airbags under him to lift him so they could get straps round his belly. His legs filled overnight but otherwise he was fine.

 

[Darkly_Dreaming_Dex]

Here is Jacob after he squeezed under the mains electric internal fence thats supposed to keep them away from the stock wire/newly planted hedge

Thankfully he just stood there calmly and whinnied until i let him out

 

[Rudey]

Somebody looks pleased with themselves roflmao xx

 

[flowerlady]

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Here is Jacob after he squeezed under the mains electric internal fence thats supposed to keep them away from the stock wire/newly planted hedge

Thankfully he just stood there calmly and whinnied until i let him out

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Ooooohh I like the look of Jacob he's lovely

 

[agreenhalgh]

Oh god, littlr rumman, glad hes ok!
My mare has a neat trick of climbing through electric fencing even when there are 2 or 3 strips of it!! She can also escape under her chain that is on her stable door when she wants to....i have never seen her do it though.. found her either in the wrong field or in the middle of the yard when my back is turned, i tell ya, they're like kids!!

 

[beechwoodbutch]

A few summers ago mine managed to get to the other side of electric fencing, over a wooden fence, lost two shoes, then fell in a dry ditch into nettles and stood at the top of the same ditch until I saw her and she called out to me, I thought where is she stood and we had to dismantle everything to get her back, she just stood there and never stressed once!....I was able to follow her trail of where she had been.

 

[debsflo]

dont they have a habit of keeping you on your toes.glad hes ok presumably hes a horse ruled by his stomach.

 

[Boxers]

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Here is Jacob after he squeezed under the mains electric internal fence thats supposed to keep them away from the stock wire/newly planted hedge

Thankfully he just stood there calmly and whinnied until i let him out

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That's probably a bit wider than the gap Manni got himself into! - Imagine that one of those fences by the side of him was 2 huge bales of straw high!