Electric Fence Options of Mini Horses.

[bullbreaker]

I went yesterday with my 29 year old son to Rural King to buy aluminum fence wire and was "shocked" when I found out they had in stock every option but that. Will look online and weigh out my options money wise whether buying local or from net and pay shipping.

 

[joshuabardwell]

i have a zareba charger and it works fine for a few years now. lightning gets it eventually. i'm sure there are ways to prevent that.

Storm Guard < Electric Fence Accessories | Zareba

 

[whistlepig]

We simply won't use wire. Hard for the horses to see wire. Way too many stitched up horses using wire. One horse got wire wrapped around a pastern, cut a tendon, and is now permanently lane. Nylon tape can cut a tendon as easily as wire. But the horses can see the tape when it is down. And horses can and will run through an electric fence now and then.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

whistlepig that is our thought about wire. The biggest issue we have in this area are deer breaking the fence and dragging it off sometimes.

Kencove reported our charger left their warehouse at 5 pm today.

 

[whistlepig]

We have boarded horses for over 35 years now. Horses come and go. Geldings will fight a new gelding over a mare. We had a boarder bring a new gelding in Sunday. The geldings fought over the mare. The new horse got a good spanking and we had to sequester the new horse. Although no permanent damage done to the new horse it did show signs of a serious beating. The new boarder is not happy. These new horses sometimes get chased hard into fences. A horse being beaten up by another horse is understandable to horse people. But not my fence. Every steeple has to be seated in the post. Every cut piece of wire turned and tucked. A horse that needs stitches that is caused by my fence is solely on me. And I have learned this the very hard way.

 

[MikePA]

We simply won't use wire.

Agree, 100%. I'd never use wire with horses. We have deer here in PA, and they jump the horseguardfence fence.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

MikePA that is good to know about the deer. I think the thin wire just is not easy for them to see.

 

[RobA]

We have Horse Guard fence as well. We chose the "Bi-Polar" fence which requires no grounding rod. Very easy to install and the horses respect it. The deer jump over it but they also try to go between the 3 strands as well.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

RobA could you shed more light to the "Bi-Polar" electric fence technology?

 

[RobA]

RobA could you shed more light to the "Bi-Polar" electric fence technology?

The website does a better job of explaining it than I can...
HorseguardFence.com : the best electric fence for Horse

I fenced in 2 acre pasture last year and will be doing another this year.