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TelH

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How do you keep the little b*ggers in? Or is it just ours who is descended from Houdini?
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She is strip grazed like our other 4 ponies but they stay put without having to put a battery on the elec fence. We are having a major battle to keep Elspeth the mini Sh1tland where she should be though, last week we bought a new battery, energiser etc that should have given her more of a shock than the last one. Yesterday she went through the fence twice and today she has been out 3 times already
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I put her back in the stable with some hay for a bit and cue one very cross little pony...trotting round her stable throwing herself about and getting sweated up (We are going through the terrible twos
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) So just let her back out...she had a roll, a buck and a squeal and then ran through the fence...

So apart from connecting her fence to the nearest pylon (joke) any ideas as to how to contain her
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The fence is definitely connected properly...OH touched it to check
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Sorry I can't be much help, but I know it's not just yours. our YO has one that absolutely will not stay put in whichever field he's put in. He's so small he climbs under the fences, electric and all, and does off to wherever he fancies. I'm sure he must get on his knees to get under some of the fences. One minute he's running the length of the fence and it's far too low for him to get under, I blink and he's on the other side!
 
I had a similar problem with my sh1tland in the end the only way I found to stop the little toad from escaping was to just muzzle her and check her out with the horses - if I put her in the stable by herself she starts doing the wall of death around the walls and trashes the beds
 
Im really sorry to dissappoint you but they are not going through the terrible two's stage.....Mine is 32!! Oh yes...32 and he is exactly the same!
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Uncontrolable.....
So I have around 10 acres seperated into 3 fields with proper wood fencing and then smaller paddocks within these done with electric fencing. Last winter was when he was at his worst, he used to roam through the whole 10 acres going through the wood and the electric fencing and sometimes would never return home! We had to put the car headlights on to try and find the litttle sod. Turned out he was in the hay field instead!
I have no idea what you can do mines just kinda learnt because he got a really nasty shock once due to my other horse trying to barge past us (me and sh1tland) and jammed me against fence which trapped tape on sh1tlands bum and on my arm! Was awful only for a few seconds but hes never got out again, hes pretty wary of it now, poor little baby but in a way big horse has done me a favour.

He also regulary breaks into the feedroom and trashes everyones stuff. Drags wheel barrows across the yard and pulls everyones equipment over.

Good luck with them however I do feel for you!
 
It is in their genes >g< We've just spent £5,000 to divide our paddock into areas for grazing. Electric fencing was a waste of time because the Shetties just barged through, clearly oblivious to the shocks.
 
hehe i have a little tiny welshie just like her, never stays in always out!! i started putting electric tape through every space in the electric poles - about 5 strips of tape, she cant get under it now!
 
I use this stuff and was the only way to stop anything going through. No chance to get neck between strands. Do have to be doubly sure that there is a current going through it as would hate a horse to get tangled up in it. I think I got 50m for £60 off ebay - comes with uprights and everything. I was seceptical as it is not usually seen with horses but I guess no difference to stock fencing....

I also heard that if its wet / pony wet then the current is stronger and will give more zap. Could also try clipping chest so more contact with flesh than wooly winter coats!
 
Netting of some variety or other as JM says, and then if it isn't electrified it has to be to the ground because the little darlings root underneath like bloody pigs!

The only thing that reliably keeps mine in one place is stock wire, I am not keen on it but the last time Charley did the under/over/through the hot wire thing he almost got himself killed going in with the wrong horse.
 
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Yep. I am sure the winter coats and excessive hair will be protecting them against the electric current.

They are little bggrs!

I am sure my highland and sh1tlands are the devils ponies.
 
I have a shEtland
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He's never got out.
Make sure the posts are close together and the wire is tensioned properly. The closer the posts the less movement in the wire.
If that still doesn't work then use electric chicken mesh.
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We have a miniature noggin', who was the smallest devil ever to start with when we got him at 10 months old, who went through a car battery powered 3 string fence and almost got charged down by our 16.3hh mare
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boy could he run!

We found the only way to keep the beast in was a small paddock with wood posts, stock fencing and electric tape, including a gate. We then put the battery on the stock fencing.. worked wonders! Now he will stand in the same field he's put in even if the other cheeky devils have escaped and left him calling his head off! They are real sweethearts though
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Mine does not escape even if you left the gate open, but a friend shetty does but only internal paddocks within a permanent fence boundry. He gallops like billyho ducks his head then straight under the electric tape he will go. Only suggestion i can think of is more lines of tape so he will have to weave his way through them hopfully resulting in him getting a good shock of the tape. They are not all escape artists mine is only 33in and in with a nf who got in to the next paddock poor shettie just stood looking at a huge gap in the fence shouting for his mate to come back. When i turned up he ran over to me shouting his head off then took me straight to the gap and grassed his mate up.
 
Ours was a horror, he used to rub on posts until loose, get on his knees stand up underneath the wire and pull the post out and let all 11 ponies out with him, once he got impounded by the police.
 
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Little monkey!!

Mine has been known to push the posts until loose too, easy when the ground is wet! then jump over.

I have three stands all connected to to a very large battery. As someone as suggested I would clip under his neck and chest
 
My Shetland (who's 9.1hh, not sure if that makes any difference) used to be a sod with post and rail fencing and would just limbo under it. I moved her in with my other horses - who are strip grazed with electric fencing. I added another strand to make it 2 strands, powered by a 12v leisure battery and she's been generally good (that does it - jinxed now!)

I would recommend getting a fence tester (around £10) and checking the whole of the electric tape. If you have any joins in the tape it may prevent the currant getting through.
 
I know someone who erected some 4 rail post and rail at great expense with closer gaps down below for her newly arrived Sh1tland...who almost immediately got through it.
I tried 4 strand elec fencing - def. working but still not a prob for the short chap!!! The only thing that has worked is the Electrified Poultry/Sheep Netting.
I think its not just the thick coats...they seem to have a very low pain threshold...and like a challenge!!!
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I gave up! Had to spend out on post and rail with stud netting. Cost was a killer but with five minis the peace of mind was definitely worth it. Having said that my 34 ins stallion got over the four foot fence into the mares without an invite!!! You've got to admire determination like that!!!!
 
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