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06/04/11, 09:06 PM
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talking about stupid
Meet Tuky the gelding who isn't too smart.
He sat on a T-post for the second time  . Last time we capped all the posts but he keeps knocking them off and putting them on is a full time job. This morning I had put them back on before feeding. Came back out to that.
1 vet trip, lots of drugs and 14 stiches later:
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06/04/11, 09:11 PM
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Oooh. OUCH!
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06/04/11, 09:34 PM
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Good grief, that is horrible!
Sounds like you need some heavy duty hot wire and a predator rated charger, that should keep him off the T posts!!
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06/04/11, 09:34 PM
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So, he has done this before? ouch! maybe switching to thick, flat top wood posts would work better. why does he 'sit' on them?
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06/04/11, 10:05 PM
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Owie!! Oh that is too bad  Is he scratching on them and slipped? boy oh boy
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06/04/11, 10:23 PM
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Be very careful vetwrapping the tail....it constricts over time and can cut off the blood supply to the tail...I have seen a horse who was vet wrapped too long....tail was only 2" long....it had fallen off, bone and all.
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06/04/11, 10:37 PM
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I've seen a few "he sat on a t-post" injuries... they usually heal pretty well. But why does he regularly do this, I wonder?
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06/04/11, 10:40 PM
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Yes I was careful about the vet wrap. I have a mare who has a bad leg from too tight of vet wrap (It wasn't me I rescued her that way). I just really didn't want the tail drying into the wound before the vet got there.
I need to get my electric fence back to working order (he is the reason it isn't working). He plays with it. It zaps him once the trips my gfci. He knows this and plays with the fencing after it trips. If I catch him at it I can reset it and zap him again but.........
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06/04/11, 10:41 PM
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I don't know why or how he does this. I have tall t-posts. 90% of them are atleast his wither hight the rest 2-3 inches lower.
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06/05/11, 06:27 AM
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Sounds to me like he might be scratching and inadvertently jabbing himself. My gypsy is ALWAYS scratching his chin, his neck or his butt on T-posts.
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06/05/11, 09:24 AM
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Was this horse by any chance a box stall baby?
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06/05/11, 10:16 AM
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No idea. He isn't registered so I have no idea where he was born. The lady I bought him from used him for english and western showing and drill team. Other than at shows he was kept in a pasture - but hers was smaller than mine and she could afford to use wooden fencing. The lady had had him for so long she couldn't remember where she bought him from.
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06/05/11, 10:58 AM
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Your hot wire shouldn't be tripping every time he touches it. Would look at replacing the fuses and checking to see if you have enough grounding rods.
At the old Farm, with the sand soil we had, I needed 10 grounding rods to make sure the fence worked properly. Here at this farm, we have clay and I just need 5. Makes a big difference. During the summer, I have to make sure to water them to keep the fence strong. So I have never had it trip because a horse, cougar or Bear touched it.
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06/05/11, 12:08 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bergere
Your hot wire shouldn't be tripping every time he touches it. Would look at replacing the fuses and checking to see if you have enough grounding rods.
At the old Farm, with the sand soil we had, I needed 10 grounding rods to make sure the fence worked properly. Here at this farm, we have clay and I just need 5. Makes a big difference. During the summer, I have to make sure to water them to keep the fence strong. So I have never had it trip because a horse, cougar or Bear touched it.
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I think the problem is that she has it hooked up to a GFCI. I missed that originally. A fencer needs to be plugged into a conventional outlet.
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06/05/11, 12:31 PM
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Mine is plugged into a GFCI.
Only time it trips, is if a tree falls on it and it is grounded out or we get lighting close to the fence.
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06/05/11, 01:53 PM
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06/05/11, 03:31 PM
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Better than when I first saw it. It was pretty dirty and bleeding fairly hard. He was pretty freaked out and didn't want me near him. It was pretty deep but thankfully it isn't effecting his movement.
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06/05/11, 04:02 PM
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Quote:
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Mine is plugged into a GFCI.
Only time it trips, is if a tree falls on it and it is grounded out or we get lighting close to the fence.
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Then either nothing is touching it, the GFCI is broken, or your fencer is not drawing enough juice to trip it.
When a fencer makes contact, it is creating a ground fault.
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06/07/11, 01:28 AM
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Why are you plugging the charger into a GFCI outlet? I always use just regular indoor outlets to plug in an electrical charger, then run the wire through conduit if I need to run it through a barn wall or something. My hotwire works great, and I'm using an old electric charger that was left behind when the old owners of our farm sold to us almost 8 years ago. Who knows how old the charger actually is.
I do have a solar powered charger in another area of the farm, and it works great, too. The solar one is made by ParMak. The Zareba brand ones are a waste of money IMO.
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06/07/11, 02:28 AM
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Oh my goodness - poor guy!
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