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Yes it's electric. My husbands an electrician so it was pretty easy for him to run electric from our garage over to our lean to & fence. Is there not electric by your horses? They do make a solar powered fencer but I'm not sure how well that works, would have to check out the reviews.
 
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Yes it's electric. My husbands an electrician so it was pretty easy for him to run electric from our garage over to our lean to & fence. Is there not electric by your horses? They do make a solar powered fencer but I'm not sure how well that works, would have to check out the reviews.
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I am in the desert.... grounding is an issue. So in order to run hot wire I have to run a bipolar system... Positive and negative in a tape that keeps the two sides separated.

So when I do cross fence I will be using this product http://www.horseguardfence.com/

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My girl is 17.1 hands and 2000 lbs give or take.... shes a fence tester and somewhat an escape artist... LOL she doesnt go far but DANG she can disappear in the Chaparral in a nano second.

Last time I told a worker to keep the gate shut... I turned my back and he said "um.... your horse is out" this was back when I could walk.... I hollered Katee I heard her ear swivvel and she lengthened her stride at the walk.... at a brisk walk I had to follow her hoof prints. around the yard surrounding the house into the rocks and through Chapparal that is over her head.... She litterally threaded her way between two boulders that had a food wide space between them at the bottom... I swear she can walk a tight rope. I knew where she would head so I turned around and went back. she made her way in the Chaparal we heard her but never saw her.... Around the house around her corral and the big Storage container around the junk pile past the wire pile and she followed her nose to the hay pile which was right by her corral.

When she came out she was yellow covered in pollen from the Chaparal it was spring. She looked at me like "What!" and began disassembling an alfalfa bale.

I keep her in a hundred by hundred pipe corral built specifically for draft horses. I have eighteen acres but that is the only horse fence I have. I have been told by her previous owner that she only respects hot wire. Shes not stupid or slow either.... I have seen her do a roll back on the fence... Maybe not as quickly as a quarter horse but she can certainly swap ends enough to toss me off... she forgot I was there... LOL.


This was before her new shelter I put up two car ports her first year here.

I am five foot seven and a half... shes a half inch taller than me. I have to stand on the mounting block to see the top of her butt to get it bushed clean.

That pipe corral is fourteen gauge and 1 7/8 diameter And she has bent it in one place reaching for a bale of hay to do "self serve" LOL... she can lift a whole bale off the stack and ALMOST get it over the fence.... our alfalfa bales are around a 120 to 135 pounds... Since then I switched to Bermuda and Free feed.

deb

deb
 
This is my "job"...

It is a video of this fall's Trail Team at the therapeutic center that I work & volunteer at. This program is BEYOND amazing! In addition to offering typical indoor arena type lessons for both able-bodied and challenged riders, they also have this program that takes EVERY rider that wants to go out of the arena, out there. We haul riders and horses out to various trail venues within a 4 hour drive of the center. It doesn't matter the disability, the staff finds a way to get the rider on a horse. Even if that means using the van-mounted hydraulic wheelchair lift out in the middle of the woods.

I hope this video might inspire some of you to volunteer with your local therapeutic riding center. It really is an amazing and rewarding experience! Most centers LOVE to have volunteers, and those with horse experience are priceless!

 
res said:
This is my "job"...

It is a video of this fall's Trail Team at the therapeutic center that I work & volunteer at. This program is BEYOND amazing! In addition to offering typical indoor arena type lessons for both able-bodied and challenged riders, they also have this program that takes EVERY rider that wants to go out of the arena, out there. We haul riders and horses out to various trail venues within a 4 hour drive of the center. It doesn't matter the disability, the staff finds a way to get the rider on a horse. Even if that means using the van-mounted hydraulic wheelchair lift out in the middle of the woods.

I hope this video might inspire some of you to volunteer with your local therapeutic riding center. It really is an amazing and rewarding experience! Most centers LOVE to have volunteers, and those with horse experience are priceless!

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Awesome job Res. I have donated and volunteered over the years. I have to friens involved with Therapudic riding centers... One is in Santa Fe NM and the other is in Maryland The one in Maryland started her own called Calm Acres

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This woman is a force of nature.... LOL.

http://calmacres.com/

deb
 

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