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griff · Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 7:53 pm Post subject:

I am very happy to report that my horses are not as smart as yours.

i can string a single starn of ribbon wire acorss a field and after I walk the horse to the new installation and introduce him to it to him I can cut it off..

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Shammy Davis · Chef de Race: Classic Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 4451

That's funny. Laughing

Shannon · Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 10:19 pm Post subject:

I had a mare who used to"test" the hotwire by using the buddy system. She'd find a "friend" usually a newbie in her group (or one of the denser geldings who didn't learn very fast). She'd sidle up along side and gradually inch the poor sucker closer to the fence. She'd get him just close enough then give him a shove and wait for the reaction. If he bounced off okay, she'd be at that fence in a heartbeat. If he reacted, she'd back off and try again another time. It was funny to watch her figure it out, she got zapped a few times through her test subject if she didn't bump him hard enough. Funny thing, it was always the boys she suckered into trying it out for her Laughing

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griff · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 1:39 am Post subject:

And when she found the fence was off what was the incentive to be at it?/

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Griff posted:

griff · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 1:55 pm Post subject:

Shammy

I have no doubt but that you are the smarter horseman..

Did you get the pictures of that Gunnerside filly i sent?/ looked like she was ready to wean at 10 days.

By the way, I once put a hot wire around my back yard to keep my Enlish setter from climbing the fence.. One day my 3 YO son came in the house mad as hell and grabed the bar-be-que tongs.. Seems like he had tried climing the fence and he was intent on getting revenge

The bar-be-que tongs were metal and I soon heard him let out another bellow.. he also never challenged the fence again..

griff

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Griff: When you said that you went out and cut the wire strand down after moving the horse, I thought "Hope Griff is smarter than his horses and turned the electricity off."

I did see the filly and she is beautiful. Still, I'd wait to wean her and if you use electric wire to pasture her don't let her near the barbecue tongs. Laughing

LKR · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 3:21 pm Post subject:

I agree. We have electric fencing, using T-posts that we have covered with PVC pipe, then drilled holes in the PVC to screw on the insulators. Put a cap on each one and they can't get hurt as easily if they run into one and they don't chew the PVC up. However, there are pens that most of this is going on in. We have to use posts to reinforce the panels at their junctions. Otherwise, it would cost 3 times as much for Noble panels. Eventually, that is our goal to have Noble panels throughout. However, no one has jumped up to win the Dubai World Cup yet, so we have to make do. Sad

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LKR wrote:

LKR · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 7:46 pm Post subject:

Boy, does THAT sound like a plan!!!
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Shammy Davis · Chef de Race: Classic Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 4451

LKR: If the plan works, you might want to think about sending your old electric fence to Griff so that he won't have to run old strands across his backyard anymore. I should have asked him how many horses you can pasture in a residential backyard. But that is another topic I'm sure.

Shannon · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 2:07 pm Post subject:

Griff: Her reason was anything she felt like...chew the boards, pick on the other horses across the rails, steal their hay if she could get close enough...pretty much whatever was on the other side, she wanted at it...anywhere we went. At shows, she would jump out of her temporary paddock and go steal the hay from the horses around her. Her paddock used to look like a jail to keep her in.
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griff · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 7:10 pm Post subject:

shammy davis

one horse per acre

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Griff: Your backyard is measured in acres? That's not a backyard, that is an estate.

griff · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 8:15 pm Post subject:

nope just 2 1/2 acres

Not really enough to do anythingwith butb I did raise one filly and her pet goat. back there several years ago.

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