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I also use the truck/trailer/woods and anything no one else wants to park by (like the construction material with a tarp on it for the future bathroom), etc to block horses from tearing thru my paddock.  I also prefer an electic pen with two strands of Tape versus tied to the trailer or picket line.  I just have bad visions of worse things happening being tied versus breaking out of the pen from some other cause. 

 

During this discussion, a thought occured to me...Has anyone ever used the glo-sticks and hung them from the posts on the electric pen to 'help' a horse running thru camp see it before it blows thru your pen..?  

 

Stacy

mkrumlaw@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> This is an interesting thread. Over the years I've seen horses hurt and
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> loose that have been tied to the trailer, on hi ties, on picket lines, in 
> metal pens, in the roll up vinyl pens, and in electric pens. Horses are 
> always going to be horses and Murphy's law applies. 
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> My best suggestion, regardless of your choice, is to practice at home and 
> or camping before you come to a ride. *Most* of the time I've found the 
> problems start when a novice horse becomes untied during the night or has 
> never seen the electric pen he's been placed in. At some point he ends 
> up loose and goes visiting.
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> Based on the sounds I heard just before all of the horses got loose at 
> the Chicken Chase, mine included, a single *something* was loose, ran 
> through the woods and into and through a group of electric paddocks on 
> the other side.
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> I normally use Truman's method of using the trailer, truck and if 
> possible a fence line or other trailer to provide barriers between my 
> horses and others. The muddy
>  conditions in base camp didn't allow for 
> normal trailer parking, so my horses ended up *exposed* and subject to 
> the stampede. Even after this happening I still prefer the electric 
> fence, though mine is always double strung, and on at night. This is the 
> first time mine have been out of the fence when it's double strung, 
> though as I said they had some help as did my immediate neighbors.
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> MKS
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