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Fw: [RC] Horrible Accident- Long - Karen Sullivan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Raven" <iceponygoddess@xxxxxxxxx>

A woman and her three teenage girls set up a portable electric corral
next to our campsites. The corral was small and only one (1) single
strand of thin rope fencing.>
She placed her five (5) horses in this corral, the corral was very
small, IMHO, not big enough for two horses, let alone five.

*Horrible story; the stupidity was not in using the electric, but haveing
all the horses together...mistake to even put to together....

*AND, perhaps not training horses in advance to be kept in electric corral
(do it at home
first).

AND make sure the CHARGER WORKS!

*I have camped with at least 10 different horses in electric corrals over
the past 15 years with no problems!  They all respect it, have more room
to
move around and lie down.

Over the years have seen more horse injuries due to high lines or portable
panels than horses getting out of electric corrals and causing problems.
In
fact, this past weekend camping; one horse horribly cut and lamed by
getting
hind leg over high line rope.  And a friends mule somehow got caught up in
rope and lamed himself....this highline was HIGH, and tightened by come
along...how the heck did he do it?

Worst electric pen disaster I saw was from person putting two horses in
one
corral........they did get out,and took a friends horse with them...

Previous camping trip horse got badly hurt by portable metal corral...cut
leg severely.

I generally use only one strand of wire also....but in response to
Kat...perhaps two lines of wider
white tape might be a deterrent to loose horses running through camp?

Karen



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