Portable medical paddock

Looking for ideas on building a temp/moveable medical paddock. I don’t trust this particular horse with any kind of tape/tensioned wire. Regular round-pen type panels scare me (getting legs caught).

Mesh-filled fencing is my first idea, but I am not finding anything taller than 4’–does this exist? I’m almost picturing a dog-kennel type setup.

Needs to be somewhat portable as we will have to set it up at the rehab barn, then take it down and move it to regular boarding barn.

Open to any ideas–thanks!

They are called welded wire horse panels.

I’ve seen them used as small paddocks and around horse walkers.

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I had to make an adjustable pen for a horse recovery from surgery (gradually adding panels to give him more space as he healed). I did use round pen panels, ones that had square upper corners so they fit tightly together, with much less chance of a foot being caught than could possibly happen in the gap between panels with curved upper corners. Mine also had legs at the bottom, not the loops that some panels have, again, nothing to catch a leg.

Best wishes with your horse’s recovery,

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