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spirit
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 Posted - 12 Feb 2009 : 2:41:10 PM
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Hi, I have checked the search section incase this has already been dissucssed, but I cant find what im looking for. 
We are having a young stallion move on our yard, but we only have general height fencing and we want to heighten the fence around the areas hes going to be turned out in as we have mares, geldings and foals in the area. 
At the moment all our fencing is post and rail with electric along the top post and half way down with Rylok fencing from bottom upwards (as we have a public footpath running through our land and dont want dogs getting in our horses fields under the fence). 
Ive been trying to come up with ways to add further height to the fence. I know a few people who have existing fencing that they have heightened have nailed another post on the existing one and put electric strands along it, has anyone got and pictures for example, or other ideas of what you have done.
Also, your experience of turning stallions/colts alonside other geldings mares whether they have been used for breeding or not??
Any help is much appreciated. We are trying to keep the cost down as much as possible.
Thanks 
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rosie
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England
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Posted - 12 Feb 2009 : 4:00:30 PM
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When we had a stallion, we attached small pieces of wood horizontally onto the top rail, so the wood stuck out about 3 feet on either side of the fence, & attched the electric fence to the edges. Does that make sense? It worked for him.
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Gerri
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England
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Posted - 12 Feb 2009 : 5:06:12 PM
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| We have our stallion turned out next to the mares and have two rows of electric fencing so that there is six feet between them and they are fine, but when we had our yard we used post and rail and then the same distance made around the perimeter of the stallions paddock with electric so that nothing could touch noses and they are happy with that because they can see the mares even if the cannot get near enough to touch noses and our fencing at the yard was five feet high with three rows of rails |
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pat ww
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 12 Feb 2009 : 8:13:12 PM
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| Electric fencing set out from the solid fence to leave the 6 foot gap as Gerri said. But i have had really daft colts / stallions here and had just electric fence between them and they stayed in, NOT RECOMMENDED on a yard where there are horse you don't want to mix. My entire males have bee next to mares that if they got out not a disaster if they were covered. |
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spirit
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England
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Posted - 13 Feb 2009 : 11:05:40 AM
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HI, THANKS FOR YOUR CURRENT REPLYS,
HAS NOBODY ELSE GOT ANY EXPERIENCE OF FENCING SOLUTIONS, I KNOW THERE ARE LOADS OF PEOPLE ON HERE WITH STALLIONS- I COULD REALLY DO WITH THE ADVICE???
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weirton
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Posted - 13 Feb 2009 : 11:12:28 AM
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We have always had stallions (all sorts) turned out in post and rail paddocks 4'6" high with electric wire on top and halfway down, in sight of everything else but with a 12ft wide walkway all the way round the outside of the fence.
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BabsR
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England
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Posted - 13 Feb 2009 : 11:43:23 AM
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Much the same here Jean. 4`6" high very stout post and Railed
with electric fence each side 4ft away from Post & Railed.
Our stallions then in close contact with the mares in adjoining paddocks but not able to actually touch noses. Keeps the boys happy and makes it much easier, as the mares `display` naturally to the stallions when in season 
This way, boys happy and relaxed, grazing in close proximity to their ladies, not shut away in stables, during the covering season.
Babs
www.SunrayAngloArabianStud.co.uk
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jasjmm
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Posted - 13 Feb 2009 : 6:06:10 PM
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Hi - I have post and rail, with electric fence extenders above that to make it higher with wide white tape running through the extenders. The extenders are about a foot high, so they do help and you can either screw them into the posts so they come inwards, (in effect bringing the electric inside the post and rail) or upwards as I have, which is just making the whole fencing higher. You obviously need to keep an eye on them to make sure they remain taught, but works for me and added about another foot onto height of my fencing (which was not as high as I had asked my landlord to do it, unfortunately...!).
I bought the extenders from our local Agricentre and I think they were just Rutland ones or something.
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kimzi
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Posted - 13 Feb 2009 : 6:08:39 PM
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| You can buy 12" long tensioners for electric fencing to go onto the top of post and rail, position them in toward the paddock he is in they are at / kind of angle, also fantastic for stopping fence chewers. |
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Emagetic
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England
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Posted - 13 Feb 2009 : 9:54:00 PM
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Hi Spirit
Firstly well done you for having stallions/ colts on your yard as most livery yard owners seem to think stallions are dangerous. Like any horse, they are only dangerous in the wrong hands.
One livery yard we moved from allowed stallions/colts to graze over night only and the geldings and mares during the day. This way they didn't interact so there were no complaints from none stallion owners - although some people will complain about anything.
When assessing fence height you should look at the jumping ability of the horses on your yard and I don't just mean the stallions. Mares in season may want to jump from field to field to get to the boys (yes this has happened to us). |
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barbara.gregory
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Posted - 14 Feb 2009 : 08:49:06 AM
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I have keepsafe fencing and my boys are across the road from the house, mares behind the house. I have a field between the stallions; the fields are about 3 and a half acres each and the middle one is empty with the boys either end. Before I had the field split into paddocks one of the boys went out during the day and the other one overnight. One of the stallions paces constantly if he can see the mares so being over the road is great for him.
I think a lot will depend on the stallion. One of mine would be happy next to the mares, the other one would constantly pace and lose weight and would also probably try and get over the fence. Could you just put geldings next to the stallion as I think mine would both be OK with geldings next to them? My old gelding had the run of the yard at night and they were happy to share a haynet with him. The stallions have haynets outside the stable doors as well as inside as they like to see what is going on and it stops them having to walk bakwards and forwards to their haynets while keeping an eye on everything. It is a stallion's job to look out for the herd and they love to see all that is happening. Once it is dark they tend to eat from the haynets in the stables.
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pat ww
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Posted - 14 Feb 2009 : 09:35:31 AM
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| When I had the couple of stables we also had haynets hung outside, he did like being nosey. |
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spirit
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England
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Posted - 14 Feb 2009 : 1:21:43 PM
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Hi guys, this is all very interesting and helpful thanks.
And yes, being a small livery yard I have to think about the customers and their horses as well as my own.
We do have quite alot of land but some of it is closed in Winter as it gets too wet and we grow and cut our hay and haylage off it. I should be able to keep the colt with a pony gelding(if they get on) as the colt is well socialised and only young, so that will help for company. I can also put it in a field next to geldings, and a couple of our fields have a river or pathway between them thats fenced off.
Do they tend to show any interest towards geldings?
Do many people leave their stallions out at night in summer?
Any other info or pics would be great. I like the sound of the fence extenders, we have screw in insulators that go on the top of the fencing, but they dont go high enough, i will look on the internet to see if i can see some higher ones.
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pat ww
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Posted - 14 Feb 2009 : 3:09:15 PM
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| All depends on the stallion. quite a few live very happily with a gelding companion, ours did, and even with his son who was 3 and still a colt. Others can be macho little so and sos as young as yearlings. |
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