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  • dpmule

    Looks more like slick wire than barbed.


    Mule

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  • BobJudy

    Looks like the horse had practice doing that before. Probably always heard the grass is always greener on the other side so went to check it out. Bob

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  • Mobuck

    Hot wire will cure that

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  • Bubba Jr.

    I think the horse just uses it for a back scratcher.

    Joe

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  • select-fire

    Horse has seen his handler do it.

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  • William81

    That wire needs to be tightened up a bit....

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  • Mr. Perfect

    That ain't no bob wahr.

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  • pulsarnc

    Agree it is not barb wire ! Hang a few strands of high tensile with new Zealand charger and the horse will not try that again

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  • SCOUT5

    Friend of mine had a horse that learned to grab the plastic handle and open the gap in an electric fence.

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  • dpmule
    SCOUT5: 30510504385947/comments/30510532781339

    Friend of mine had a horse that learned to grab the plastic handle and open the gap in an electric fence.

    I recently saw a video of a angus cow doing that.

    I have snaps and chains on my gates to keep the mules from opening them. They don’t mess with hot wire when in pastures where I utilize it though.


    Mule

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  • Okie

    That ain't no barbed wire.


    I've seen mules carefully smell when a fence charger wire was hot. They could detect it through their whiskers.

    I walked into a electric fence wire while wading fishing a creek once. britches were wet, was in thick brush going from one hole of water to the next, wire was about half way between my knees and my gonads. I detected it kinda fast with my whiskers. Only thing nice was I could not tell if I added any more dampness to the britches.

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  • SCOUT5

    Seen several horses through the years that would slow nose up to a wire to check if it was hot.

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  • montanajoe
    • Community moderator
    Mr. Perfect: 30510504385947/comments/30510520205979

    That ain't no bob wahr.

    + 1

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  • Mobuck

    "Friend of mine had a horse that learned to grab the plastic handle and open the gap in an electric fence."

    Yeah, I've heard about that. A few wraps of wire around the handle will cure that, too.

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  • wundudnee

    We had an old horse in a pasture with a single hot wire around it. In one corner the electric fence would snap across the insulater. Sometimes we would shut the charger off because it caused the house radio to click. That horse would stand in the corner and when it quit snapping out he would go.

    Another time we had a shed full of ear corn. The windows were just what they called isenglass, a plastic with mesh imbedded in it. The same horse broke in one of the windows and ate about a bushel of corm. We had to have the vet out to treat the horse. My Dad covered that window with hail screen on insulaters and hooked it to the fence charger. He then took the largest ear of corn he could find, wrapped it with copper wire and hung it on that hail screen. The horse immediately wrapped his mouth around that ear of corn. I never heard a sound like that come out of a horse. He reared back, farted and sat on his rear. He spent most of the day creeping up on that ear of corn then backing away.

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  • discusdad

    we had an Angus bull who would nose up to the weed chopper wire. only problem the copper ring in his nose sometimes hit before his whiskers. it wasn't a pretty sight seeing his bowels violently evacuating, his bladder emptying, and his vocal cords reaching a painful crescendo

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  • austin20

    Clever horse

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  • Captplaid

    I undersstand horses about as much a womans.... WTF? How? Why? An hour ago you were fine!


    Had a loader and a fall protection strap under her lower neck.... She spun 90 degrees as I lifted and climbed out... Then it was like "hey, you got any oats?"

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