Horse broke part of the garden fence!

[firebird]

My daughter's horse decided to rub her butt on my garden fence today and broke one of the cross boards :-( I guess wooden fencing is no match for a 2000 pound horse! Oh well, back to Lowe's for another board and maybe some electric wire if this keeps up.

[Summerthyme]

LOL! Wooden fences aren't even a match for a 1000 pound horse... which is probably closer to what you have! (unless she rides a big draft horse!)

Wooden fences are pretty, and safer than barbed wire most times.. but most horses can break them down fairly easily. You *may* want to consider putting an electric wire on there.. it will have to be supported on some type of insulators, obviously, but properly placed, it will help keep the horse from reaching over, leaning on, or scratching their butt on the fence!

Summerthyme

[momof23goats]

LOL! Wooden fences aren't even a match for a 1000 pound horse... which is probably closer to what you have! (unless she rides a big draft horse!)

Wooden fences are pretty, and safer than barbed wire most times.. but most horses can break them down fairly easily. You *may* want to consider putting an electric wire on there.. it will have to be supported on some type of insulators, obviously, but properly placed, it will help keep the horse from reaching over, leaning on, or scratching their butt on the fence!

Summerthyme
been there had that happen. mine jump the electric fence, yup they have a couple of times, to nibble on the new corn plants.
doesn't make me to happy in the least.

[susie]

Worm the horse.

[just me]

I have to agree with everything said including worming the horse. You need to switch wormers regularly.

We had a horse that would crawl under the electric - I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen her do it. So we had to put a 3rd strand much lower.

We use a solar charger and the battery has finally given out after about 10 years.

[firebird]

Thanks for the advice. I will try the change in brand of wormer. Any brands that you guys particularly like?

[Summerthyme]

Firebird... if you get a chance, ask your vet or the co-op extension folks in your area what wormer ROTATION they suggest.

Ivermectin has been great, but I think there is some resistance being built up to it in some species.

But... unless the horse is actually scratching enough to ruffle up the tail hair, it's likely it just had an itch. They can't reach their butts with their teeth, you know?

One which has bot problems or other worms sometimes will scratch/rub, but they do it enough that their tail hair (on the upper part of the dock) is tangled, flattened and broken.

Summerthyme

[firebird]

Firebird... if you get a chance, ask your vet or the co-op extension folks in your area what wormer ROTATION they suggest.

Ivermectin has been great, but I think there is some resistance being built up to it in some species.

But... unless the horse is actually scratching enough to ruffle up the tail hair, it's likely it just had an itch. They can't reach their butts with their teeth, you know?

One which has bot problems or other worms sometimes will scratch/rub, but they do it enough that their tail hair (on the upper part of the dock) is tangled, flattened and broken.

Summerthyme

Her tail hair is not ruffled up at all, her tail actually looks real good.

[just me]

Firebird, We alternate between Quest and Ivermectin. Quest gets worms that Ivermectin doesn't and vice versa. We learned that the hard way when we almost lost a weanling to worms that Ivermectin wasn't getting. It has been a while ago so I don't remember the specific type of worms.

[Zarathustra]

We had a remedy for the horses that rubbed their tails (if it's not worm related) we mixed together rubbing alcohol with glycerin from the drugstore(1/4 alcohol, 3/4 glycerin) put it one of those ketchup/mustard squirt bottles so that you can apply directly to the skin on the top of the tail where it meets the body. You might have to reapply every 3, 4, 5 days depending on the horse.

I learned this from an old horse trainer and took this secret with me to every stable I boarded at and they loved how it worked to keep horses from tearing up their tails from rubbing.