Tank proof fencing

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I think my cob is actually cross Tank and today has been issued with a new show name 'The Dark (fence) Destroyer' after breaking yet another post int he temp field while I sort the one he trashed in the first place.

I have had him three years and have found myself replacing fencing every year. This year I took the plunge and spent out on on rope instead of tape (most the metal strips are knackered now in my tape). I have put two lines on the outside of the field and three on my seperating posts (three acre field split into three paddocks). I use a energiser which I have to keep on top of incase battery (and chained up to stop it getting nicked) gets low and he sees an escape route. If he just goes through again I am actually at wits end on the fencing front with him. All I have too do is take of the electric fence off for a day and its down on the floor.

Does anyone else have this problem with their horses? If so how do you go about it?
 
Go to a scrap yard and buy two big batteries, lorry ones are the best, keep one charged up at all times to replace the other one when it gets low. They are about £10 each from a scrappy.

Have a few strands on your fence and as long as they are fully powered up with a decent energiser I am sure it will make a difference.
 
Mains power and no rugs at all. I would also move to the broad plastic tape - about 3 inches deep with the wire in it and put 3 strips not just 2. and to proper fence posts - not electric fence posts.

I personally hate electric fencing and all my paddocks are post and railed, but we have had to put mains electric round one as I have one livery mare who lies down, edgest her way as far under the bottom rail as she cah then stands up using her weight to snap the rails - and they are not thin light weight rails. She then gets into the next field . I have had to run electric tap underneath my bottom rail in her paddock to stop her doing it. And the mains jolts are really hard so that has been totally effective.

Unfortunately cobs are notorious for not feeling the jolts and a rug makes it even less so.
 
My horse is an 18.1 shire who weighs a ton and suffers from sweetitch, and so likes to scratch his bum on the fencing = lots and lots of weight on fencing.
The best fencing is metal stock fencing - think post and rail but metal.
I don't know how much it costs to set up, but I would imagine fairly expensive. However, in the long run, you wont have to replace it so should work out cheaper.
 
If he wears a rug have you tried threading a piece of electric tape or a thin piece of chain through the chest of his rug to increase the "zap" he gets?
 
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