Spacing of T posts for Horse pasture?

[Soundguy]

i've had to help bury one that went thru a 3 board .. wod broke and made a spear.. horse didn't even have much time to thrash before bleeding out.

had to help burry a horse that stepped thru field fence and got hoof caught and worked it enough to near sever hoof under cannon bone.

helped haul a horse to the vet that tried to junp a chain link and speared itself on a line post with the pointy top.

have loaded a horse from a livestock pavilion event that jumped out of a round pen and got tangled int he 2" pipe railing and aluminum bleachers.


fact is.

a horse can find more ways to get hurt than we can think about.

they are a flight based animal. obstacles present special problems for them. heck. they percieve things differently out of each eye.

crazyy is hard to control. most horses are like women. IE.. they are some % crazy.. naturally.

i've helped get a horses halter unhooked from a buddies trailer.

horse found a very difficult way to rub it's face on his gooseneck hitch and get the hitch post between face and halter and pull trailer off front cribbing and actually drug it a few feet before deciding to thrash and twist and tightent he heck out of the halter.

once the horse exhausted itself and was left hanging by it's face we were able to get in and cut the halter free and get the horse hydrated and back up.

I can tell you similar stories about cattle and swine.

I can tell you worse stories about different poultry.. turkey being the most dumb animal on the face of the earth.. outside of beagles.

animals get hurt.

they TRY to get hurt.

you can make a pasture 'safe' at a very, very, very high $$ cost..and they get hurt. or you can make it at a low cost and still they get hurt.

if I owned a million dollar race horse I'd obviously opt for a different paddock containment than a grass pulling nag.

oh yeah.. another good story.

that white and orange tape for electric fences.. with the wire strands in it that are as tough as radial tire belting.. helped a guy free a horse that had charged an electric fence and got tied up in tape. had the vet out there.. hose ran thru that and then jumped a tube gate and went down the road. busting the electric tap e let another horse into an area that let it also get out. some friends went after that one and got it safely. the one going thru the tape made it a few miles. that tape bound and cut it so badly we had to ace it... linemans wire cutters had a hard time cutting that tape off and getting it out of the flesh...

horses CAUSE problems. it's in their nature.

just go with what you can go... btdt not getting any more when my herd is gone..

 

[whistlepig]

I have limited experience with hogs and cattle only as a hired hand. I have dealt with horses where ever we have lived for the past 40 years now. Every time I do something that involves horses I try to make it horse proof. I did a little fencing today. It's impossible to horse proof. For every safeguard that I could think of there are ten reasons in my head on how the horse can defeat this. Horses are not stupid. And as Soundguy says they are creatures of flight. And when they want to run, by gosh they will run. Fence beware. Our outer fence is no climb. Electric fence for pasture control and confining horses inside the outer perimeter of the no climb. And as Soundguy says horses do cause problems. Horses are still a mystery to me even after 40 years.

 

[Soundguy]

yep.. they are a weird sort.

Just for info. my main exterior fence on the property where most of my horses are is post and board over 2x4 V no climb redbrand. That fence cost as much as my detached 2 car garage and horse barn!

I have cattle in 5 strand and tpost barbwire on another property. I have poultry on both of those properties.. and I have swine on the 'cattle' property.

peremiter fence on most of the cattle prop is 5 strand as I mentioned one border is noclimb 2x4 wire on post.

i have cross fencing in both props using electrified wire.

I have some hi-ten in a couple paddocks the horses are put in, and otherwise a mule lives there pretty much full time. neighbor tot he rite and left have horses. one uses 2x4 no climb on wood post.. other uses 5 strand wire on wood post. thus depending on how things are shuffled between the? 6 paddocks on that property.. anims may see hi ten, barb woire or no climb.

on the pother property.. pretty much noclimb and wood or electric line ( aluminum wire ) on fiberglass step in posts.

feedlot is the most fun. get 1 feed boss and you have to make sure all troughs are faced away and spaced.. or you get musical chairs at feeding time.

all my stalls have the regualr stall latches ont hem that are usually horse proof.. but I have 2 devils that know how to reach over and unlock their or their neighbors single buck doors. those I have to bunji together.

I have some class A mini that will grab other equines halters and pony them around and chew and snatch on them. i generally have to go find halters out in the paddocks at least once a week.

heading to work this eveing I see one of my class A paint stallions has his halter off..

it never stops..

one of the worst swine problems I had was when they dug out under the hog panels I had.. had to root 2' deep to do so.

one got out.. a bigun.. maybee. 250# crossed a paddock and wedged under a round pen board and got hung up and DIED. I thought he had just escaped. after getting other hogs in.. didn't find him till I smelled him. he was on a back side.. so no way to get the tractor over. had to dig a hole right there by the pen.. a big hole.. then roll him in from out from under the boards.. yummy.. I thru them gloves away!

 

[whistlepig]

We did Red Brand no climb for our horse fences. My gosh I thought this stuff was expensive. But when I started stretching this stuff I knew I was dealing with the best fence that I had ever put up. After 5 years it is well worth the money spent. I simply will not do bare electric wire. Too many horses have ran through this over the years and wrapped it around their pasterns and cut tendons. We do board horses. When new horses are mixed is the worst for running through the fences. Who's going to be boss hog? For horses that don't get mixed maybe bare wire is OK. Bare wire scares me. Barbed is even worse. I have payed the vet bills. I have tried to explain to boarders how there horse got hurt. Even a nail sticking out of fence post can be a hundred dollar vet bill.

 

[Soundguy]

yep.. that redbrand is the best I've found.

neighbor put up some no name brand welded 2x4 not woven like redrand.

most of the time when they stretched it.. it broke runners out.!!

ditto ont he nails.

and how about the odd bale of hay with sticks in it.

again.. horses have all day outside to find ways to hurt themselves.

bare wire and no flags just asks for trouble... ok for established herd.. surely not for newbie turn outs