Rug problems

J

Jadeloveshorses

Member
Joined
3 March 2018
Messages
20
Visit site
Hello
I’m Jade. A teenager with a pony. I’m fed up of my ponies rug getting ruined against the barbed wire fence. The rest of the fence is post and rail but there is a line of barb wire half way up and it’s constantly slashing up the rugs, third this year! Anyone know of good strong rugs that don’t rip or is this always going to be a problem?
Thanks!
Jade
 
1200D rugs - or 1600 if you can afford them - will be more resistant to rips. But really the best thing is to keep horses away from barbed wire if you can. At least at the moment it is only rugs ripping and not his skin. Is there any way you can fence away from the barbed wire?
 
Buy some electric fence insulators (the ones that offset the fence 15cm or so ) and run electric tape along the top of the fence to stop horses leaning over & catching rugs?
Barbed wire halfway up the fence sounds like a recipe for horses getting their legs caught in it, let alone trashing their rugs to be honest. If the rug doesn’t rip, horse would stay attached to barbed wire fence ......
 
Thank you. It’s a tricky field to manage as the majority of fence line is surrounded by dense woodland or hedgerows and the fence is submerged. It’s also many, many acres and completely rural but looking into how this can be changed/made into sections. Thank you, will look at the 1600 rug. Jade
 
Buy some electric fencing and posts - put electric fence up about 12inches away from the barb wire fence. This avoids it shorting on the hedgerows that the fence is submerged in
 
I was going to suggest as above. If the rest is post and rail, then just run an electric taped fence in front of the barbed wire so your pony can't reach it.
 
It would definitely be a better option to block off the barbed wire with electric tape in my option, it's much safer for your horse that way.

Also I've had 1200D rugs take on barbed wire and they will go eventually, yes they'll stand up more than your 600's but they still won't last you long.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top