Urgent help needed - Keeping my horse in the field

Further to my Earlier Post

I really need some ideas on how to keep Sol in her field as we are on a main road and she silly enought to run into the traffice (already had one death out there
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Haven't got a clue why
Its been over the last 2 weeks she's been a nightmare but only last night she decieded to take a wander round the whole farm .
Last summer she used to jump between paddocks but very un-occasionaly and we put it down to her being a baby and not used to paddocks
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The thing is once they know they can jump the fence they will keep doing it.. can you put electric fence inside the other fence so it makes the fence to wide to jump?
 
She will jump it
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Absoloutely nothing bothers her as said earlier she isn't bothered clearing the 5ft odd P&R fencing when she wants to
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Will ask YM if I can try it though
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Well, I can think of a few solutions....remember to evaluate the quality of advice though
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1. Hobble her so she is unable to jump.
2. Put her in foal - more of a long term solution, but next year, when she has the foal at foot, she won't want to jump out and leave it.
3. Tether her gypsy style.
4. Hire a JCB and dig 6 ft deep trenches inside the fencing in your field, effectively making them 11ft tall.
5. Buy the extra tall electric fence posts, a line of clearly visible tape, not wire, and run it all round your field at a decent height - attach line of fencing to power unit and battery so it has a kick...and tie strips of any plastic bag onto it to make it clearly visible. Turn horse out in daylight so she sees it.
6. Starve her til she is too weak to jump. Dehydration would also work. Bonus if you get her confiscated due to cruelty.
7. Firmly secure an anchor (easily bought from any chandlers) to her tail.

S
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Well, I can think of a few solutions....remember to evaluate the quality of advice though
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1. Hobble her so she is unable to jump.
2. Put her in foal - more of a long term solution, but next year, when she has the foal at foot, she won't want to jump out and leave it.
3. Tether her gypsy style.
4. Hire a JCB and dig 6 ft deep trenches inside the fencing in your field, effectively making them 11ft tall.
5. Buy the extra tall electric fence posts, a line of clearly visible tape, not wire, and run it all round your field at a decent height - attach line of fencing to power unit and battery so it has a kick...and tie strips of any plastic bag onto it to make it clearly visible. Turn horse out in daylight so she sees it.
6. Starve her til she is too weak to jump. Dehydration would also work. Bonus if you get her confiscated due to cruelty.
7. Firmly secure an anchor (easily bought from any chandlers) to her tail.

S
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Fantastic
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I'm going for option 6 shes already pretty lean so it won't take to long
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Silvershadow; could you please take off some of the photos at the end of your signature? They are distorting this thread and I have to scroll way over to the other side to read it. Thank you
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ISH - Ziggy is right again, trouble with horses like these are that once they know they can escape, they will start doing it with more frequency unless you can figure out how to nip it in the bud. I had an escape artist once - got rid of him as quickly as I could right after he decided to take my youngster out with him one day!

The poly bag idea is a good one though.
 
Sorry forgot to add my thoughts!
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* Ide ask YO/YM if you can make the fences higher
* Move to a field away from the road
* If none of the above are possible - move yards?
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Sorry can't help but I know how horrible this is.

I ended up keeping my mare in 24/7 for a couple of weeks and then sold her for £500 !! She did have a Kissing spine though, so I put it down to her not wanting to put her head down to graze - she did look very stressed at the time.

Hope you find your solution
 
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5. Buy the extra tall electric fence posts, a line of clearly visible tape, not wire, and run it all round your field at a decent height - attach line of fencing to power unit and battery so it has a kick...and tie strips of any plastic bag onto it to make it clearly visible. Turn horse out in daylight so she sees it.

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eeerrrmm exta tall electric posts... save the money and use the national grid electricity pylons?!
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they would sure give a bit of a kick if she touched them!
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no probs. :-)

I think i must have a larger than average sized monitor, so I hadnt realised that it was oversized (and I will admit that i never read instructions!!)
 
My 4 year old is like this - all out fencing now is 5ft high (electrified) with another strip of electric tape 6ft away and also high (buy the really high electric fence posts - they're only a couple of quid each! Its all hooked up to the mains electric and has one hell of a kick to it so she is slowly starting to respect it - we bribe her onto the fencing with a carrot so she knows it bites!! She is also in a fenced off paddock within a fenced off field so if she jumps out her paddock she still has several more fences to negotiate before she gets out the yard and the whole thing baring 1 gate is enclosed by massive hedges so I don't really have to worry about her getting out on the road as I don't think she's stupid enough to try to jump the hedges!!!

I've also been bringing her in mid morning and keeping her in with just a lick (and water!) until about 5 - 5.30 and then when I put her out I give her a little fresh grass so that she is hungry and tempted by the grass not the fun of field hopping!!! The electric fencing seems to be doing its job - in the last week she has only gone over the bits that for some reason haven't been electrified and being wide and big she has a challenge in jumping them anyway and if she's not too sure she can make it and knows the fencing "bites" she won't try. That said I forgot to connect it up Wed evening and she cleared the fencing - quite happily. Atleast I know she can jump and has scope - not that I ever plan on jumping 5ft high, 6ft wide fences with her
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There's got to be a reason why it's only recently started happening. My girl does it on occasions and YO always says nothings changed but quite often I find out something did change on the day she jumped out
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Once it was because two horses were taken out of field
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Once because they changed her field and obviously she didn't like it
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Another time, a tractor had been doing something in the field next to her
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I agree electric fencing is worth a try
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Have you changed her routine, field companions, feed or anything else?
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Horses - aren't they a worry. Hope you manage to resolve it soon.
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Well, I can think of a few solutions....remember to evaluate the quality of advice though
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1. Hobble her so she is unable to jump.
2. Put her in foal - more of a long term solution, but next year, when she has the foal at foot, she won't want to jump out and leave it.
3. Tether her gypsy style.
4. Hire a JCB and dig 6 ft deep trenches inside the fencing in your field, effectively making them 11ft tall.
5. Buy the extra tall electric fence posts, a line of clearly visible tape, not wire, and run it all round your field at a decent height - attach line of fencing to power unit and battery so it has a kick...and tie strips of any plastic bag onto it to make it clearly visible. Turn horse out in daylight so she sees it.
6. Starve her til she is too weak to jump. Dehydration would also work. Bonus if you get her confiscated due to cruelty.
7. Firmly secure an anchor (easily bought from any chandlers) to her tail.

S
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I quite like boys toys so option 4 sounds good to me
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When I first had my horse, he jumped out of his field. He then proceeded to jump into and out of all the other fields with horses in, leaving chaos in his wake. Finally he jumped out onto common land where there was a railway track running through. I immediately moved yards. He easily popped a 5 bar gate, pretty much in walk.
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He has stopped doing it now as he had an accident doing it.
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I would suggest P&R and then a 4 or 5 feet gap to electric that is properly switched on. Both electric and P&R as high as you can get them. (You can get plastic posts for the electric that are approx 4 ft high). Either that or 2 strands of electric with 4 feet at least between them. I think your horse would be unlikely to jump that. Some people tie pieces of black plastic bag onto the fence so that it flaps and hopefully keeps the horse away. Didn't work with mine - He's too bold!!
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I guess you also need to think about WHY he is jumping out. Could it be to get the company of other horses, or perhaps better grass?
 
May I suggest that you erect 12 feet high Ostrich Fencing around the field(s) you keep her in.

If your horse escapes you are liable for any damage that she causes so make sure that you have third party public liability insurance of no less than £10,000,000. Please be aware that most policies do not offer this high level of cover so check your existing cover with care.
 
Ginn - Thats a good idea (re food ) as she has 3 haynets in the day and 3 feeds
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so she could be very bored in the field

Tiffany - Her routine hasn't changed that recently (8 weeks ago ),
field companions - Normally she is alone but she had been being turned out with another horse but she was also escaping when she was alone
feed - Hasnt changed atall except she now has seaweed and nettles
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Mickey - Thankyou I think I will have to ask YM to hook all the fencing up to the mains for a bit and see if that helps

PeterNatt - She would have to negotiate atleast 5 , 5bar gates or hedges to get onto the road so its unlikely she will be that stupid . But thankyou I will definately be checking her insurance
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