dreadfull accident

[almonds]

our horse got caught in some electric fencing which could happen to any horse, it got stuck on him and was chaseing him about the feild, he decided to jump a metal 6ft gate which is all bent, a wooden 5 bar gate which snapped in the middle and into the road, and over a 8ft headge made up of thornes and barbed wire and still lives! i honestly though he would be dead until i saw this head over the headge looking at me! i had to take the frount gate of by the pins, get him out of a farmers feild and get him back.lucky for him no broken bones but muscle strain and some nasty scrapes his kness took all the force and have blown up, the vet out and all the usual, i took him out of his stable and not as stiff as i predicted.the truma knocked me for six, but we live to tell the tail.it seemed carnage and when i saw blood on the wooden gate i felt sick.doesnt get much worse but have gone through some rough stuff with them but this one caps the lot!

[poohsmate]

Well that sounds horrendous, i know how you feel!!!
my horse pulled the side of a horsebox once and went around the lorry park dragging it behind him, luckily he did not do much damage to himself!!! but it does make you feel sick!!!!

Hope it's nothing to serious, and he gets better soon....

Tell you what though if he can jump a 6' gate and a 8' hedge id have him entered in the Grand National next year

[Maggiemooo]

I feel for you, and thank god it could have been so so much worse. Speedy recovery to both of you.

[Kimmy C]

OMG poor horse and poor you!!! Bet you both HATE electric fencing now. Have only ever had one of the ponies on the yard run through the electric spring gate and run up the yard with it in tow! My horse wont even cross a piece of rope as she thinks its electric!! When she first experienced electric fencing I had to put her on a lunge line to coax her through the opening to the paddock.

[pmcc]

Hope he is ok and forgets about it. Maybe a day or two before the stiffness creeps in but hopefully not.

had a really bad experience of electric fencing and sheep wire.
Had a my mare and foal on restricted grazing and one night after dark our dogs go crazy and won't stop barking so I went out to see what was going on and heard like stampeding and our mare calling.
Can't see anything so go get flash light and couldnt believe what I saw. The mare (with electric tape round her leg) going daft trying to jump the sheep wire between us and our neighbours field and the foal wrapped up in the wire on the other side of it.
Husband had to cut him out of it, foal going nuts and me trying to settle the mare. OH had to cut all way down with wire cutters and through a row of barb, the other two rows the foal had snapped..

Put a pallet over the hole in the wire and had to leave them out cos I had no stables. Foal didnt look to bad by torch light. Next morning vet put 4 stitches on his rump.
We reckon the mare got caught in the electric tape and ran herding the foal between her and the wire and straight into it.
Frightening to think what they can do to themselves.
Had to get farmer to agree to let us replace the wire, which he had no problems with cos we paid and put up the fencing but it was worth it for peace of mind.

[Cortrasna]

Thats terrible! How stressful and poor horse One of my worst fears is getting one of them wrapped up in the electric. Had a friends horse do that and the wire had cut and burnt so deeply into his leg he had to be PTS Thank God yours seems to be relatively OK.

Do agree though - you obviously have an awesome show jumper there!

PMCC!! Another horror story! Blimey we think this electric fencing is so great dont we but tales like this do make me wonder?

[Collina]

How aweful so glad that there is no permanent damage. I worry about electric fencing as my mare must have got a shock off it and ran and tried to jump a 5 bar metal gate. I was not there at the time but when I went to get her in saw her in the next field and the gate had a very large V in it. I really thought broken leg but when I got to her she had only taken the coat off her back legs. I now have no gates on the paddocks and the hedge is about 10ft high.

[Luna Corona]

I'm sure we all have horror stories to tell either of our own, or that happened to someone's horse we know. What poor horses have to put up with, with us constricting their grazing and movement, how dare we

My Roxy got caught in electric fencing when she was a yearling not long after I got her. We don't know how she did it but she'd obviously tried to jump into the tiny restrictive paddock with my mum's laminitic mare. The tape was not electrified, and perhaps if it was, she wouldn't have made such a mess of herself. It had been wrapped three times round her near hind, cutting right into the flesh in a spiral all the way to her pastern. Not much blood but a nice mess. I can't rate Summer Cream highly enough for protecting against flies and keeping the scarring to a bare minimum.

[Ceiron]

poor boy

[pauline w]

Even with well charged batteries ours still escape sometimes, they haven't jumped out but do a good job trashing just established trees. Friends have tied thier horses to a metal gate and stable door.Both were startled and took off with gate and door attached. One , at least, ended up in the horsey hospital. I used to ride NH and pt to pt horses. I had to pull ones mane ready for an important sale, owner was on holiday. I couldn't see very well as the electric light cast a shadow so I tied him to a very heavy duty, old fashioned manger closer to the door. He pulled back and the manger came off the wall and was dragging round on the end of his lead rope. My knees were jelly and I felt sick to the end of my toes. He was a flighty, mad sort too. Luckily he seemed to listen and , with shaking fingers, I undid his headcollar. Needless to say I pulled his mane in the dark. He didn't sell but went on to win a big race at the cheltenham festival. 22,000 pounds and is still in the same home.
I went a bit off topic but so glad everything turned out ok. Sadly electric fencing is a necessary evil.