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| Slave 2 Magic |
Posted - 30 Jun 2013 : 08:10:02 AM
Not an arab but I am worried about my 2 year old IDx. His default behaviour seems to be jumping. He has jumped out of the arena while having a run round with the others. Yesterday though he jumped a stone wall out of the field and onto the main road! 3 of his field mates were being taken out and he decided to follow. He still had 3 left in with him. He has cut his back legs in the process. Do they grow out of this and become more accepting of staying put? I have now made it clear that no horse goes out without calling me to bring my lad in as well. Not ideal but its too big a risk not to. |
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| proctorclaire |
Posted - 09 Jul 2013 : 3:30:46 PM
I sympathise with you. My mare jumps anything that you put in front of her. Electric or not. The biggest fencing I could get was 5ft and she jumped that. I have now given up trying to stop her. She has jumped out of the yard before at my old place and thankfully the yard owner caught her after she galloped through the yard. |
| jillandlomond |
Posted - 30 Jun 2013 : 7:06:03 PM
When my youngster was that age, he regularly used to jump a 4' fence whenever I took his pal Lomond away for a hack. I never actually seen him executing the jumps, but was forever finding him in the neighbouring farmer's field watching and waiting for us to return. Never a mark on him and fortunately he did outgrow this habit by the time he'd reached 3 |
| martha615 |
Posted - 30 Jun 2013 : 1:19:59 PM
Is there a field with tall hedges? that might be the best option. However, another would be to try to reduce his dependence on the herd....that is laborious, but ultimately what he may need, unless he is jumping for fun!! |
| Pasch |
Posted - 30 Jun 2013 : 11:40:37 AM
Was going to say electric,too!
Heathermcbreen,my boy Pasch(purebred) knows very well when it's on or off,they can hear the buzzing i think,their hearing is better than ours and they can hear frequencies we can't hear.When it's off,he will find the way to get out.
Slave 2 Magic I don't know if you can fix the issue without changing the surroundings and maybe it would be a shame to scare him off jumps? A friend had a horse (a Freisian stallion!!) that used to play jumping logs and ditches in the paddock all by himself  |
| Slave 2 Magic |
Posted - 30 Jun 2013 : 10:23:44 AM
Unfortunately electric isn't an option. They are on a very large farm with very large fields. Ideal for youngsters but not when they decide to jump out
The YO is very decent and has moved them into the next field which has much higher fencing. Long term though I need to fix the issue and not just change the surroundngs. Yes when he is older at least I know he can jump and jump big! |
| Pop |
Posted - 30 Jun 2013 : 09:33:31 AM
I think they can hear the electric fence, and some work out that it doesn't sting when they cannot hear it; other just don't even want to risk it. |
| heathermcbreen |
Posted - 30 Jun 2013 : 09:14:07 AM
I have had this ... the only solution was a higher fence with electric on the top... once they know their jumping capabilities, and if they want to get out, they will. Having said that I am surprised he does it when he still has company... just one horse/pony/goat is usually enough to keep them happy. On the up side perhaps he will be famous .... he obviously loves jumping. I think it is the ID bit ... I have found that most horses with this blood are a nice mix of very bold and sensible. Thats why there are so many sports horses with ID. My 3yr old Palomino Part bred Arab is one quarter ID and after always having pure or high percent arabs she is just so different. Actually..... at my age now ... it's quite a relief....I still love pure breds the most for their beauty though.
Do you think he gets really stressed and that is why he does it... ?? I would have said it is just because he can do it... he is clever and he makes the decision to do it but not in a panic. If he thinks at all like most IDx I know, he will be intelligent and not be one bit stressed... just a clever boy who has worked out he can jump rather well. Whereas a pure bred often injure themselves in a high adrenaline panic without thinking things through.
I guess this does not help much .. but if you could run electric around the top of all fences..... oh and if he is like my filly... the electric MUST be on.... I do not know how she knows but she does. If it is not on she will duck under or step over a single dividing electric tape. My pure bred will not do this. |
