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It can't be beat for grazing off overgrown unfenced areas with mature 
sheep. I'm currently (well not right now, but when the grass grows) 
using it to clear hedgerows where I want to put permanent fence. I have 
never and won't ever take it to a ridecamp, unless of course I'm 
bringing sheep :-)
  Libby
sherman wrote:
> As an owner of a horse that will stay behind a piece of twine at home, 
> but will blast thru electric wire at a ride, it looks to me like a 
> like a recipe for disaster (:<( I'd say, if you have to use an 
> electric pen, use twine or tape, but having seen horses get tangled in 
> that too (not the horse that was behind it, but a passing loose horse) 
> I prefer tying my horse.
>  
> Kathy
>  
> I use and have used this for 30 years for my sheep. Occasionally I 
> have horses in it too, but I try not to. If a hoof went through the 
> horse would continue to be shocked as it pulled up the whole fence, 
> complete with 4" metal stakes. This kind of wire (plastic with small 
> metal filaments) cuts like a surgical saw. I have lost lambs in this 
> fence. They get a leg or neck through and become twisted and tangled 
> in it very easily. It is important to keep it taut and highly 
> electrified at all times. If I was pasturing a horse with it I would 
> not want to make an area smaller that 4 rolls. 165' x 165' Libby

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