TomPenny
Bronze Member
This story is all too familiar to me. In 2001 we had Twister , beautiful Tenn Walker, just a few months when got hung up in some wire. It cut his leg 360 degrees into bone. Horse $5000.00. Vet $2500.00, Electric wire $100.00
Experience Priceless.
It's a long long heaing process requiring constant daily care like harv said. The quality of healing depends directly on the quality of care.
Twister is fine now. You would have never thought he'd heal. It cut right through a tendon. I don't understand but the vet in Poetry Tx did a fantastic job.
When building the house my neighbor came and asked if I'd split the cost of a fence between our property. I said sure lets do barbless wire. One day maybe replaced by pipe.
He said no he's got to have barbed. Why? are you going to have cattle. He said no but anything less than barbed is a waste of money. We couldn't agree and a few days later I came out to find a barbed wire fence up. about 400'
The day came when my horses and his horses were getting cut up kissing each other over this razor sharp fence. I got tired of the cuts and put up a temporary fence using electric wire and t-posts.
Bad Idea...as electic fences do, it got turned off. Twister figured it out and got in it. It was so sad and to this day I am mad at Ronnie and myself. Both of us were stupid.
I still have the electric fence but it is now using ribbon instead of wire. It won't hurt the horse if they get in it.
Ron's barbed wire fence is all torn up. I now know why he insisted on barbed. He has a mule. Rooster. Rooster eats fence for lunch. Ron won't maintain his fence. It has many broken wires. I have to go out and wrap them up to keep them off my side.
One of these days I'm going to take my FEL and knock the whole thing down and say Ron look what my tractor did.
Experience Priceless.
It's a long long heaing process requiring constant daily care like harv said. The quality of healing depends directly on the quality of care.
Twister is fine now. You would have never thought he'd heal. It cut right through a tendon. I don't understand but the vet in Poetry Tx did a fantastic job.
When building the house my neighbor came and asked if I'd split the cost of a fence between our property. I said sure lets do barbless wire. One day maybe replaced by pipe.
He said no he's got to have barbed. Why? are you going to have cattle. He said no but anything less than barbed is a waste of money. We couldn't agree and a few days later I came out to find a barbed wire fence up. about 400'
The day came when my horses and his horses were getting cut up kissing each other over this razor sharp fence. I got tired of the cuts and put up a temporary fence using electric wire and t-posts.
Bad Idea...as electic fences do, it got turned off. Twister figured it out and got in it. It was so sad and to this day I am mad at Ronnie and myself. Both of us were stupid.
I still have the electric fence but it is now using ribbon instead of wire. It won't hurt the horse if they get in it.
Ron's barbed wire fence is all torn up. I now know why he insisted on barbed. He has a mule. Rooster. Rooster eats fence for lunch. Ron won't maintain his fence. It has many broken wires. I have to go out and wrap them up to keep them off my side.
One of these days I'm going to take my FEL and knock the whole thing down and say Ron look what my tractor did.
