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#1 ·
We just bought 6 acres, and are planning to house horses on it. We are planning on using t-posts (with caps of course) for sure, but everything else is up in the air for fencing. We would like it to be as cost effective as possible. We were planning on using some sort of electric too. Send your ideas my way!! :D
 
#5 ·
Depends on the wire. One part of my larger pasture is made from strands of double-twisted slick wire and that keeps them in just fine. The only reason that I want to replace it is because the fencing is really old and most of the posts are leaning/falling over LOL....and the tape looks better, IMHO.
 
#7 ·
Fact is, fence is more suggestion then physical barrier. They want out, their gonna get out. That's why electric works. They learn. I like tape too. But never had the chance to use it myself. Would save on pink streamers lol.
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#21 ·
Ok hmm... Love the pink streamers. :) I really can't see 2 wires lol without perfect spacing... Haha. I think I will really think about going with hot tape on top and 2 or 3 strands of high tinsile on bottom... Then I don't have to deal with hanging streamers!!! :)
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#36 ·
We use hot tape, but only as interior fencing, not boundaries. After seeing one of my horses bolt after chucking me
Off and run straight through it, snapping it like it wasn't there, I just don't trust it enough for boundaries. However all
Our other horses respect it just fine and we use it to restrict their grazing.

Two plain wires isn't enough for ours when they get hungry, they walk through.

We have about five plain wires and barb on top (cattle fencing) which works fine. On some fences we have an electric standoff which is even better as they can't lean on the fence at all. However make sure it is high enough, at the station one filly got her leg hooked over the hot wire, luckily it had shorted out or it would have been a disaster.

My ideal would be post and rail or the new plastic strip fencing, with either an electric stand off or you can get the top part of the plastic strip electrified. But that gets exxy!
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#37 ·
I have field fence adn t post around my entire place with one strand of hot wire Wide Tape . The center divider between the pastures is pipe post and top bar and two strands of hot wire tape, and the horses test the fence, and will crawl under to get to the other pasture. three pastures with T post and caps, even though the caps end up missing or off, and two strands of tape on 2 pastures and 3 strrands of tape on the front by the road.
 
#39 ·
my horses test the fence and will get out. They dont need anything. They have pasture, alfalfa hay morn and night, clean water tub that you can swim in, free choice mineral /salt. Room to run, roll , trees for shade . They are wormed on a regular basis. They are fat and sassy.
 
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