The ten commandments of electrical fencing

Electrical fencing for horses – so helpful, but so infuriating. Whether or not it’s making an attempt to arrange your poles in a straight line, or making an attempt to untangle your tape, these 10 commandments are certain to sound acquainted to any horse proprietor who’s needed to take care of it.

1. Don’t covet thy neighbour’s electrical fence, with its pristine posts and completely straight tape with no knot to be seen, for it is not going to keep like that.

2. Nevertheless fastidiously thou coil the electrical tape, thou shall discover it in what’s technically often known as a “bugger’s muddle” when thou come to make use of it once more.

3. Ought to ye attempt to construct a fence with two strands of tape, nevertheless onerous ye strive, ye shall not obtain tautness in each strands. One shall for ever sag.

4. Nevertheless cautious ye shall be in disconnecting the ability provide, there shall come a time when ye will get a shock. And it’ll not be nice.

5. Thou shalt at all times neglect the ache of working the tape by way of thine palms as you coil it, till these spiky steel bits inside make their presence felt.

6. Blessed is he whose publish spikes don’t someway bend themselves at 45-degree angles whereas within the floor, to allow them to’t then be used anyplace else, for he’s actually uncommon.

7. At any time when ye maketh an try and create a fence, the bottom into which ye will attempt to stick thine posts shall be in one among two circumstances: too onerous or too moist.

8. Don’t be fooled by thy horse’s harmless face and the very fact he pretends to not strategy when thou disconnecteth thy battery to cost it. He’ll cost as quickly as the ability is off and thine again is turned… straight by way of the fence.

9. Nevertheless many posts you’ve, and nevertheless lengthy be your electrical tape, you should have simply too few of the previous and simply too in need of the latter to make the fence thy desired size.

10. In some unspecified time in the future in all horses’ lives will come the second of realisation: that with a thick rug on, it issues not whether or not the fence is galvanized as they’ll stroll straight by way of it. So all of the above factors are tutorial, anyway.

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Eleanor is an skilled journalist who spent over eight years working for native and nationwide newspapers earlier than becoming a member of H&H as information editor in March 2016. Captivated with equine welfare and exposing the reality, Eleanor has reported on all elements of the trade, from Brexit to anti-bullying campaigns, and from dressage guidelines to mules. Her sport of alternative is showjumping, by which she competes her personal horses, and she or he additionally enjoys reporting at native leaping reveals by way of to worldwide championships.