ridecamp@endurance.net: Tying to trailer

Tying to trailer

Virginia Rice (ricevb@inxpress.net)
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There is another side to the discussion about tying vs electric
pens. My horses are in tie stalls when they are in the barn so
tie well. Once at a ride I was rudely awaken when a horse ran by
my truck and trailer dragging the electric fence from his pen.
He spooked my horse but my horse stayed put and was trembling but
safe. The loose horse ran into a parked truck and died instantly
of a broken neck. Sometimes being tied to the trailer is safer!

Ginny
Wisconsin

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I'm responding because it is something of a sore subject for me.
For every story of a horse that ran through a electric pen, I can
come up with one of a horse that got badly hurt with portable pipe
panels, or tied on a picket line, or tied to a trailer!! We could
trade stories endlessly! I'll bet you, there are probably just
equal numbers of horses that get injured or cause problems to
others, by each method.\

I use electric corrals because they are convenient, and they work
for me and my horses. I have never had a problem with MY horses, in
4 years of using them-despite buckling my mares blanket surcincle
around the electric wire last year, which fortunately I noticed
BEFORE we turned on the fence!

Why don't we just use what works for us,and stop criticizing what
everyone else does!

Karen

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