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See, I disagree that they can’t really move when they’re fenced with electric in narrow runs. Everyone I’ve ever had will stand right up next to it, poop within inches of it, play bitey face over it, and run along it. And my charger is big and my fencing is HOT.
I think it sort of depends on the horse, but that most will deal just fine. Clearly they don’t want to actually touch it, but the condition of the sections of no-climb and 3-rail fencing that I have leads me to say that I’d rather they not touch it. I’m going to have to completely re-do 100’ of no-climb next spring that they’ve used for scratching (my fault, I didn’t put a line of hot wire on it) and a previous tenant ate a lot of my 3-rail and I probably should replace those poles.[/QUOTE]
Sounds like you have one top hot wire, that is not as bad as the whole fence being hot wire, as I have seen.
I have seen those horses standing most of the day in the middle of their 12’ wide pen and being careful not to move too quickly around, so as not to by mistake touching their belly or hock to that hot wire.
Maybe horses don’t care, but I didn’t like how stiffly they moved in those small places.
Then, it could have been the horses there, a few doesn’t really mean that much, others could have been fine there.
I think that V-mesh is not as apt to be damaged when rubbed against, at least ours has been there well over 50 years and in heavy use for many years and still looks like new.
It was installed almost 12" off the ground and with a 2" pipe on the top and on 8’ from post to post, hard to damage that, even with stallions playing across it.
