While the leccie fencing is switched off temporarily

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The retired senior PPID mare steps in to 'helpfully' trim under the bottom strand of electric string. We don't want any shorting out once the power's switched back on, do we.

Bearing in mind that said senior mare has just had her 6 monthly vet review, and we have agreed to 1. No further increases in Prascend dose from the current 2 tablets per day. 2. Any non trivial colic, she will be pts. and 3. If she gets laminitis, she will be pts, she's looking quite cheeky and perky, isn't she.

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The other two neds wouldn't dream of going so near to the fence, hence the one that I'd rather ate the least grass (due to lami risk) ends up getting the most :rolleyes:.
 
I have a couple of Shetlands that know the very second the fence stops clicking and they are through it like a shot! Normally taking most of it with them, tangling it all up in knots in the process! Little twats.

At least your mare is being delicate and respectful of her short opportunity!
 
EKW said:
I have a couple of Shetlands that know the very second the fence stops clicking and they are through it like a shot! Normally taking most of it with them, tangling it all up in knots in the process! Little twats.

At least your mare is being delicate and respectful of her short opportunity!
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Not only shitlands, cobs are pretty good at that too. We all need a clicking machine for when it is turned off :)
 
JillA said:
Not only shitlands, cobs are pretty good at that too. We all need a clicking machine for when it is turned off :)
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My Dartmoor goes through too but only when the Shetlands have tested it out first! It is purely the noise they listen out for! So next time I get another unit and battery nicked I am just going to put an iPod up that repeats the clicking sound over and over!
 
Lol, not only Shitty's and cobs but Arabs too!! only mine would have been through there in 2 seconds with nothing disturbed at all, just him happily munching with the other one bleating pathetically from the other side.
Gorgeous old mare Tiddlypom, bet she's scoffing that as fast as possible. :D
 
Caught Little Fatty on the wrong side of the electric fence this afternoon and it is double stranded and on the mains. got him back and he went straight through again. I wouldn't mind so much but I'd moved the fence so that he had some grass to eat. Having tolerated a muzzle for most of the spring and summer, he now whips it off the minute he thinks I've disappeared. I despair of him, he's too fat and I definately need to get some weight off him this winter or we will be in big trouble next spring!
 
Non respectors of fencing can be a pita, can't they. In her younger days, it took 5 strands all pumping 4-5 kV from the mains to keep her in. Her modus operandii was to get her head in underneath the bottom strand then barge her way through underneath it. She gave herself a bit of a fright a couple of years ago though, she misjudged it and ended up pulling up and breaking a dozen white plastic posts and lots of string. There were skid marks and debris everywhere. By the time I found them next next morning, calm was restored and all 3 were happily munching the hay which had been rowed up ready for baling... Senior mare seems to have shoved the young rescue filly ahead on her to take the flack. The trashed fly rug was a big clue as to who was guilty, though ;).

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quality control obviously!

Mum's mare does similar positioning though we don't have that low a strand, it's always worked quite well as Frank's neck isn't long enough to contort that much so she gets more grass!
 
Spare a thought for those of us whose ponies just hop over electric fencing whenever the mood takes them! Even the tallest available fence posts and a strong electric current are no match for my boy!
 
And for those of us with ponies who spent some time watching the staff get in and out of the field, to learn how to use the handles to open the gate of the leccy fence.
...there were three of them in the field so no evidence it was mine, but he's the only one who enjoys that sort of puzzle.
 
tatty_v said:
Spare a thought for those of us whose ponies just hop over electric fencing whenever the mood takes them! Even the tallest available fence posts and a strong electric current are no match for my boy!
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My Houdini is just crawling under and through! It’s mains electric that really zaps too!! I’ve just bought yet more tape to make the gaps even smaller! Why do they have to cost a fortune!
 
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