Posted 2008-02-16 9:16 AM (#76969 - in reply to #76651) Subject: RE: Silly Non-Horse Folk
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Location: Roanoke IL
Why do horses escape??! LOL, It's not like we aren't good to them!
I found a little gadget that clips on to the fence and will flash a bright light when there is not enough charge going through the wire to stop your animals. It has caught fence failures several times for me. Daisy knows when that fence isn't hot, and she will try to escape over to greener pastures now that she knows how. The little Mini horse could possibly squeeze between the wires, but the half draft....well...she mastered it. At least she doesn't always break the fence on the way out. BTW I have 4 strands of that electrobraid style rope. Not a crappy horse-containment system. She can limbo under it, or weasel through it. Not a hair displaced on the horse, and not a strand of wire out of place. I thought someone was playing a joke and letting her out of the pasture. Thankfully she's the easiest horse to catch. But boy, after several escapes and thinking of how bad it would be if she was on the road.....I like my little fence light.
Posted 2008-02-23 8:32 PM (#77775 - in reply to #76651) Subject: RE: Silly Non-Horse Folk
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Location: CA
We had a mare show up in our pasture several years ago. She was nice looking, young, and Andalusian-y or Lusitano-y. Not a scratch on her and our fence was still intact. Anyway, we only had one close horse neighbor and she had Iberians....So I went to her house, nobody home. Fed the horse. Went again that night. Nobody home. Fed again. Went late at night, and though there were now cars and music, nobody answered the door. Creepy. Next morning, no answer, fed again! Midday I went with my husband and finally got a real person. She reeked of alcohol...really bad, and really sad. She wouldn't believe that we had one of her horses, so my husband convinced her to go take a look. Sure enough, the mare was hers and had cost her 35K a few months earlier. People!!!!!!! I guess I was the "good neighbor" in this case.