Re: [RC] [RC] re:portable corrals - Kelli Kirchner
Electric corrals do work for some people myself being one of them. On every
endurance ride I have been to, I see quite a few people using eletric tape
corrals. Sure, I have been at a couple rides where I have seen a horse get
out, but for the most part, I think they do a pretty good job. A horse has
to respect the electric corral in order to be kept in one safely. If you
have a horse who doesn't respect it an has run through it on more than one
occasion, an electric corral might not be the way to go for you. Myself and
the person I go to rides with have used electric corrals all summer without
any problems with our horses getting out of them. My horse has been spooked
plenty of times while standing inside his and has yet to run out of one. At
the S2S this past summer, some horses got out around 2am and ran through our
eletric corrals which 3 of our horses were occupying. Instead of getting
scared (which they were) and bolting through them and taking off after the
other horses, our horses stood as close together as they could get in the
back of their corrals after having the #@!& scared out of them when the
other horses ran through. Like I said, they might not work for everyone,
but I have not had a problem with them yet. Plus, they are inexpensive and
easy to put up and take down.
Kelli
Ooooh, yeah, I can second that (and probably with three different dead
horses....)....I just cringe when somebody parks near me with an electric
corral. I think they should not be allowed, but that is just because I
have seen far too many tragedies occur because of them. Other horses run
into them or thru them, and it creates a pretty big mess. Been there, seen
it, lived to tell about it. Barely. I just love the people who set
theirs up right in the thruway in the middle of camp, then have their
anchor lines going all over the place for people to trip over......:+/ k
My advice is don't get one, especially not an electric one. Use a trailer
tie instead. I know we could get into all kinds of arguments, but my
reasoning is because I personally know of three dead endurance horses who
got out of electric corrals (often when their owner put a blanket on them)
and where either run over on the highway or in one case, fell off a cliff
in the dark. Cindy
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