What fencing do you use in your fields?

[3Beasties]

Apart from electric fencing what type of fencing do you use round your fields? If you had a choice would you go for something different?

 

[Seahorse]

We have traditional post and rail with a line of electric tape between the mares and geldings so they can't touch each other.

 

[kafrin181995]

we are the same as sea horse! we turn them out in a sand schoola nd have post and rail with a think strip of electric to stop them eating the new turf we have put down out side!!
piccie below!!
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[Tia]

My fields were previously fenced with post and rail or stock fencing. Did not like the stock fencing so tore it down and replaced most of it with super-safe vinyl fencing. The vinyl rails are 3-strand high tensile wire enveloped in vinyl. The vinyl wire, is high tensile wire covered with vinyl; some fields are vinyl rails, some are vinyl wire, and some fields have both. I still have the post and rail at the entrance to our farm, however this will be going at some point and will be replaced by vinyl rails to fit in with the rest of the farm.

Here are some photos of some of my fields.

 

[Enfys]

I have stock wire and post and rail. I'd love to get shot of the stock wire but I also have goats, cattle and dogs that really need a perimeter fence that they can't get through onto the road.

The Ring Fence will have to stay, but I am working on replacing the internal paddocks with vinyl fencing like Tia's.

 

[3Beasties]

I really like the look of the vinyl rails. Does anyone know if we can get them in the UK? Are they as expensive a they look?

 

[Tia]

Oh you won't regret refencing with the vinyl Enfys - it really is fantastic stuff. Don't buy it in Canada though as it is 4 times the price, for exactly the same make of fencing! If you need contact details of how to purchase it from the States, I can pass those onto you. You will need a broker to bring it in for you under NAFTA, otherwise you'll have to pay the tax and customs duty on it.

I priced it out, and the vinyl rails (3 rails and at the American price, not the Canadian price) cost the same as if you were putting up post and rail, however that is only short-term costing; if you think of how many wooden rails break or need replacing over 25 years, that makes post and rail much more expensive. The vinyl company I use, gives a guarantee of 25 years on this product.

The main reason I got it is because of all the foals and youngstock I carry and I do not like stock fencing or post and rail, too dangerous. This was the only fencing, when I researched it, which had no horse fatalities, so it's the safest fencing on the market.

 

[Tia]

You can get a similar type of fencing in the UK; it's stud rail and here's a link to a company who produce it. I don't know about the pricing, but it's likely on the website somewhere. Hope this helps.

http://www.peterperksltd.com/studrail.html

 

[JoBo]

Post and rail like this (ignore Bodey sleeping):

 

[amandaco2]

post and rail.would like the plastic type rails though as mine eat wood

 

[Gonetofrance]

Tia, is this the stuff you use?

HORSERAIL

 

[Tia]

Yes that's far more like the fencing I have. Here's the actual company I buy from;

http://www.centaurhtp.com/

 

[MistletoeMegan]

We have a mix of post and rail, post and high tensile electric wire, and post and thick electric tape (some of these are also in front of hedgelines).

The post and rail looks the nicest, until it gets broken or chewed - if I had the choice I would probably use post and thick electric tape exclusively. The green tape isn't as much of an eyesore as electric fencing normally is.

 

[Gonetofrance]

I really want it, but it's too expensive. I've seen it in use in Scotland on a private stud and the injury rate to youngsters stopped almost overnight.
I need a lottery win, I've too much land to fence...........

 

[Tia]

Yes that was why I started to install it, because of the foals and youngsters. But then I really found out so many more benefits and decided on a course of action to replace all of the fencing on the farm. We've done it in stages though as it is expensive, but then when you factor in that it is virtually impossible for the horses to ever injure themselves on this fencing, that probably adds extra weight and value to buying it.

We are pretty much at the tail end of refencing now, but it has taken a year to get here, and some of it we have had to compromise on ie. putting up the vinyl wire rather than the vinyl rails. Eventually we will take down the top wire and replace with a rail, but have too many other things to spend money on at the moment, so wont get round to doing this until end of the year at the earliest.

 

[LadyRascasse]

mine is main electric fencing so that does really help

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