Putting something on electric fencing so horses can see it ...?

[Porkie]

Does anyone know if tying something (ie, plastic bags) onto electric fencing (of the very thin wire variety

) would make it short out ??

Yard owner has just had new posts installed but joined it with the very thin wire electric fence rather than the tape sort - it's barely visible to us and we are worried that when the horses go out for the first few times they won't know its there and will run into it

- we want to tie something to it so they can see it, like plastic bags so they flap. But would that short it out ?? Or is there anything else we could tie to it that would be ok ??

 

[Nats_uk]

A friend recently made an electric pen in her field for her horse who was recovering from a tendon injury. White sports socks were tied to the electric fence at intervals so the horses could see it! They worked well as they didn't flap too much and they didn't short out the wire

 

[ReefurG]

I may be completely wrong

but I think the fence will only short out if whatever you attach to it is also in contact with the earth so I don't think tying plastic bags to it will short it out. How about using long strips of coloured electrical tape folded over the wire? (By that I mean folding strips in half on the short side so that they dangle, obviously not in half lengthways covering the wire!)

 

[NeilM]

As long as whatever you tie to the conductor cannot touch something to earth the fence, you'll be fine. Sports socks sound OK, but when wet they would conduct, so if they could touch a bramble / tree / bush they could short the fence to earth.

I would have thought that if you chop a few bags into strips and tie them on (scare crow style) they will do well, especially white bags.

 

[dunthing]

We cut up thick plastic feed bags like Alfa A bags. After a few weeks, you can take them off. We only put them on if there are new horses being introduced so that they know the boundaries.

 

[MillionDollar]

Is it this sort-

http://www.farmcareuk.com/shop/shop.php?...28dfbcf9146dd15

If it is the horses will have no problem seeing it. I use it everywhere and had 11 different horses so far in the paddocks and not had a problem. It is actually far better than the tape!

Even the foals are absolutely fine with it

 

[blackcob]

Ditto _Claire_, we use that sort to split our field into two paddocks and my blind-in-one-eye horse can see it just fine

 

[Cop-Pop]

I hang plastic bottles from mine but thats mostly coz she's just push thru it otherwise

 

[Enfys]

Strips of tin foil.

 

[milliepup]

Maybe I'm being mad but please tell me that it's not just the silver steel type wire and nothing else? If it is that type of wire that should only be used in conjunction with something else i.e. stock fencing underneath then the wire along the top or post and rail with a strip of the wire to stop them nibling the fence etc.
If it's the rope type then sainsburys bright orange bags do the trick!