Hopping fences

["Sarah Roxanne Zawacki" <zawackis@pilot.msu.edu>]

    Thanks for all the response on hobbling.  I think I'll try to train
Elliot *slowly* whenever I get a chance to buy some hobbles.
    I have another question.  We put up the no-climb horse safe fencing,
which has been pretty nice overall.  Our "starving" old mare managed to
lean over part of the fencing, to reach some grass on a hill on the other
side.  I think I see some hotwire in her future...  However, one has to
walk around to gates everywhere, which drives me nuts.  We used to have
a two rail board fence, and if you wanted to go somewhere, you could go
in a basically straight line, ducking through fences as needed.  But
it's impossible to climb over wire mesh without doing damage, so I was
wondering how people dealt with this.  I'm thinking about taking some
two-by-fours, sawing them into smallish pieces, and nailing them to
high-traffic posts on both sides, tree fort style, to make ladders that
go up one side and down the other.  I'm not sure that this would be
horse safe.  I can't think of how a horse could hurt himself on two-by-
fours firmly nailed to a post (assuming the two-by-fours weren't
particularly long), but they never consult me before wounding themselves,
either.  Does anyone have ideas?

                            Thanks,
                            Sarah & Elliot & Holly (I'm hungry!)
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