Photographic proof of one of my fence vandals is below. This is Moonshine checking out the grass on the wrong side of the fence. Valentine and Cash do it too, though Valentine is such a giraffe, he goes over the top of the fence instead of through it. The fence posts are starting to loosen from all of that horse weight pushing against them. Electrifying is in our future, I think.
Hopefully there will be grass growing on the right side of the fence soon. Although, like the old saying goes, “the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence…”
You can erect a 2″x4″ mesh or diamond mesh woven wire hose fence, attaching it to the existing wood fence. This will prevent your horses from reaching through and pushing against the fence. You will also eliminated the possibility of hooves getting caught and potential damage to the horses.
Good point. We’ve been thinking about the wire fence anyway so we could allow the horses and goats to co-exist part of the time.
Amazing how he’ll ignore all that hay on his side of the fence…
We had the same problem with our 2 horses. After watching them damage the original fencing we put up the heavy cattle panels and they also bent those over in attempts to eat from the other side. I was resistant to putting up an electric fence, but it was getting to the point where we feared they would finally get out. We just started with phase one this weekend and so far so good-wish we would’ve done it last summer. Live and learn with horses!
What a stinker.
It’s too bad that the horizontal fence rails were placed on the outside of the fence. If they had been placed on the inside, it would be stronger at resisting a horse leaning on it.
We use 5.5 foot tall non-welded wire horse fence and haven’t had any problems since installation a year ago.
~Lisa