Woven wire, barbed on top.

Stock fence with openings large enough for a hoof to go through is not safe for horses.

Top it with barbed wire (common practice to keep cattle from "riding" the fence down) and we've got double the danger here.

A horse kicking at another horse in a neighboring pasture could get a leg stuck in the fence. (Been there, seen it happen.)

A panicked horse attempting to jump a barbed wire fence and not quite clearing the top wire could result in worse than a big vet bill.

Woven wire with barbed top strand.

Barbed wire fence has its place and purpose. It is pretty darn good cattle fence.

It has no place in the horse world, except for possibly a reference for tooling the skirts of a custom Western saddle.

Introduction.

There is no 100% horse-safe fence.

Horses find inventive ways to harm themselves.

Even the most safety-obsessed stables where all bits of wire and horseshoe nails are picked up, and where all stall connections and feed bins have rounded corners, horses still get hurt.

One of the easiest ways to prevent common injuries is to provide the safest horse fencing available.

There are many options on the market today, but the biggest obstacle to safe horsekeeping is the existence of old, rusted, inadequate fence.