A couple years ago, I dragged Bob to the Horse Expo in Minneapolis. We picked up some brochures on horse fencing. It was mind boggling the number of options, most of them very expensive. Three lines or four lines? How many electric? Braided rope, hi-tensile wire, tape or mesh? Plastic or wood?
Art, our neighbor just up the road, has several horses, so he seemed a good source of information for fencing and I'v e been peppering him with questions. I hope I've not been too much of a pest. He stopped by the house last week and spent some time looking over the outbuildings and the lay of the land and gave me some good suggestions. He says with horses, you can make it easy or you can make it difficult. He opts for the former.
We have barbed wire fence on the perimiter of our property which is very horse unfriendly and most sources of information will tell you never to use barbed wire to fence in a horse. But I do see horses in it occasionally. What I will do is put extender brackets on the T-posts and stretch a hot line of tape to the top. Any new fence will be have 4 foot T-posts with 2 rows of electrified tape. This will be temporary until we can do something more permanent. I don't know what that will be.
I found just what I needed at Stockman's today. The 1 1/2" poly tape and insulators. I hope to have everything ready by the time I bring the horses home.
