The Xmas Furry
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Spent some time this morning retraining B......
I'm getting a little fed up with 3 deer who keep crashing through my top fence which consists of: 3 lines of barbed wire, then a 4 ft wide very thick hornbeam hedge, 5 strands of barbed wire tight against it on my side and 4 lines of tape inside that. I've been meaning to replace the inner fence with Tornado fence, just like I've done on other boundaries, but it's been too wet or ground too hard to get up there and I rarely use the top 2 paddocks.
The Fuzzies haven't been in there since early March, its standing hay. I've left all the connecting gates open to all unused paddocks with only the main one onto yard on the left closed.
This morning I lost it as they (the deer) were in there again. Tacked up B and instead of going out for a hack, we went deer tracking.....
She was very good and soon realised what I wanted, which was to keep them moving. We gently herded them round, then back up the fields, they made a dash down to the yard, crashing off the tornado fencing (its over 6ft and these small guys cant hop it even in panic) they also dodged the open gate to yard (main gate open too, to common).
We wheeled round and herded them back up the field again - this time with me calling 'on on on' lol, and B lightly cantered behind them slightly moving left and right to keep them from breaking away.
This time they went straight back through the fences and ran onwards.
I was v pleased with our impromptu deer herding trial, we then went out on our planned 90 min hack.
Have you taught yours something different recently? ?
I'm getting a little fed up with 3 deer who keep crashing through my top fence which consists of: 3 lines of barbed wire, then a 4 ft wide very thick hornbeam hedge, 5 strands of barbed wire tight against it on my side and 4 lines of tape inside that. I've been meaning to replace the inner fence with Tornado fence, just like I've done on other boundaries, but it's been too wet or ground too hard to get up there and I rarely use the top 2 paddocks.
The Fuzzies haven't been in there since early March, its standing hay. I've left all the connecting gates open to all unused paddocks with only the main one onto yard on the left closed.
This morning I lost it as they (the deer) were in there again. Tacked up B and instead of going out for a hack, we went deer tracking.....
She was very good and soon realised what I wanted, which was to keep them moving. We gently herded them round, then back up the fields, they made a dash down to the yard, crashing off the tornado fencing (its over 6ft and these small guys cant hop it even in panic) they also dodged the open gate to yard (main gate open too, to common).
We wheeled round and herded them back up the field again - this time with me calling 'on on on' lol, and B lightly cantered behind them slightly moving left and right to keep them from breaking away.
This time they went straight back through the fences and ran onwards.
I was v pleased with our impromptu deer herding trial, we then went out on our planned 90 min hack.
Have you taught yours something different recently? ?
