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    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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