StockGuard Fencing is a Mental Barrier    

    
The pain associated with the electrified tape creates a mental barrier for the horse!

These electric impulses are painful but harmless.

For the foal, that mental barrier training teaches him to respect  his electrified fence and will exist for the rest of his life..
        
To maintain a respect for the fence, the horse must receive a shock whenever he attemps to touch it, for that reason the fence charger must be kept on at all times !

Horses have varying dispositions, and when faced with a narrow tape (or worse, a wire fence) they can react differently.  Lets address the situations when the horse is hot or scared:

a) The horse does not see the wire and runs right into it. As we all know, injuries due to wire fences provide vets with a lot of business.

b) The horse sees the wire or narrow tape, but is agitated enough (perhaps his mate is leaving) that he tries to break through the tiny obstacle that he perceives to be only the size of a twig.  Sometimes the horse will dance or even stand there trembling with indecision.  Some horses will actually bump the fence to test it.

When we can take action, we generally try to distract the horse to discourage him from going on.

You can find a lot of lucky horse owners who have never had to cope with such critical situations as (a) and (b), or deal with the resulting injuries, but there are so many other possible critical fence situations that could happen.

It is best to be prepared and to use your knowledge to prevent whatever you can.


   

       
AN ELECTRIC FENCE SHOULD ALWAYS BE KEPT ON AND SHOULD CARRY PERMANENTLY BETWEEN 4 TO 7 VOLTS.

 

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