Three strand high tensil wire fence, electrified. Wooden corners and t-posts.
Pros—Hard to break, it stretches instead of breaking when a horse or deer runs into it. Horses usually stay away because it's electrified 24/7.
Cons—Legs can get caught, horses can slip thru, and the wires can break under extreme pressure, resulting in cuts and dragging wire. Visibility is very low because the wire is thin.
All of our t-posts are uncapped, unsafe, but they were capped once many moons ago. Horses stay away from the fence, caps kept breaking due to weather, so we left them bare vs. shards laying in the pasture, never had any issues.
We do tie flags on the top and middle wire to increase visibility for the horses, and we always walk new horses around the edges before turning them loose, and horse by horse allow them to get acquainted to prevent any psychotic running that may result in a horse thru the fence.
All in all I think the fence is safe enough to keep horses in and prevent major injuries.
The 3 wires are spaced like they are for a good reason, each wire does a different thing.Any animal trying to get in or out will be shocked by our 100 mile fencer located on just 7 acres, about a 1/2 mile of fencing.
- Wire 1 keeps horses in/out.
- Wire 2 keeps foals in/out as well as larger dogs and other livestock.
- Wire 3 keeps out dogs, keeps foals in, and also keeps out any other predators.
—A.
Thanks again for your contribution. You covered the cons that I would have mentioned, and explained what you were doing to compensate for those factors.—XP
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Hey...loved the site. I was looking for info on T-posts and found this. Good site! I'm definitely going to have a talk about getting t-post caps with the barn owner. It's a smaller barn with large pasture but there is a possibility of new horses coming in and that makes me a little nervous as a new horse could really mess up the herd dynamics and could be flat out crazy. Write more!!!
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