Barbed wire is UNSAFE for horses!

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UNSUITABLE for horse fence!


I don't care if you say your family has used it for hundreds of years and you've never had a horse get hurt, there's always a first time and it is preventable ... there is simply no excuse for using barbed wire to contain horses in the 21st century!

ANY HORSE, but especially the young and nervous, can crash into barbed wire and severely lacerate their skin, ripping flesh to the bone.

Permanent scarring and disabilities are common, and injuries may result in the horse being humanely destroyed.

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Barbed wire is unsuitable for horse fence!

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ashley says:

barbed wire should be no where near a horse, and i speak from experience my mom had a horse that got chased through a barbed wire fence by another horse and the horses back leg was ripped 7 inches lone around the front of the horses back leg and it was riped right to the bone. If it had been any other kinda of fence thats not wire, the injurey would have not been nearly as bad, because of a barbed wire fence the horse is most likey going to have to be put down. Thats not even the first case of accident like this that i have hurd about.

Posted November 23, 2009

Jay says:

I had my horses get out once and my mare got tangled in my neighbors barbed wire. Sliced her up and left horrible scaring. Electric tape and rope are much safer, easier to put up, repair and cheaper then barbed wire. There is NO reason to use that hateful sh*t. Cattle respect voltage better then they do barbed wire anyway. It is out dated and needs to go.
If you use barbed wire with horses you are just asking for trouble. I don't care how long you have had your horses on it.

Posted October 29, 2009

Debbie says:

And just to continue, those of you lucky not to have had he problem and feel that your animals are safe, your time may come (and I hope it does not) that you experience the other side of this debate........ Believe me your views will change, when you witness the pain and suffering; not to mention the amount of flesh severed and damaged, god and the amount of blood that covered me today.. So think on it as this way, it was my horse today it could be yours tomorrow. Just have a look on the web pictures on barb wire injuries. Just to let you all know we had this beautiful old boy in 5 hecters... and still this evil wire got him....

Posted October 19, 2009

Debbie says:

I have just spent the day with the vet with my sensible 19 year old boy. He got a hoof caught in the wire, something must of spooked him.. I found him shaking and in obvious shock. He may make it! as it has severed both legs top to bottom. so those of you who think that barbed wire is something we need, we do NOT. we also had a dog many years go through barb wire, ripped his shoulder open like a tin of beans, never heeled, as every time he walked it ripped open again and again, we re-stiched until we no longer could, the infection killed that poor dog in the end.
So who ever invented that evil stuff......for the purpose of what!! what good does it really do, against the damage it does to real live animals that do not understand this stuff can kill you!!!!!

Posted October 19, 2009

CP-Idaho says:

There ought to be a law against barbed wire use for horses and anyone leaving behind wads of old wire out in no mans land ought to be punished as well. My horse and I were injured 2 evenings ago on our evening trail ride after becoming caught in a ball of barbed wire that was hidden in the deep grass. Unfortunately, my horse is cut much worse than I and thank the Lord she is quiet and manageable, If she'd of fought me on holding still, it would have been a much worse injury. As it is, she is out of commission for 4 - 6 weeks and I have much work ahead of me, cleaning, bandaging, antibiotics and etc. All the things that go with such an injury. I say BAN BARBEDWIRE!!

Posted August 06, 2009

Lucy says:

I dont agree with using barbed wire, as i have seen the injuries that can occur. My own horse just recently got tangles up in a barbed wire fence and had to be cut out, luckily for him he got out ok and didnt need too much treatment. I personaly believe in post and rail with elctric tape, less chance of injury.

Posted May 21, 2009

Banditt says:

I HATE Barbed Wire. Within 4 months my guy has had 3 cuts. One on his neck, back left leg, and now front right leg above his bulb hairline. I'm looking for a new place to move him.

Posted January 06, 2009

awesome... says:

My friend's dad saw a horse get cut in half while it was trying to jump a barbed wire fence.

Posted September 30, 2008

missytreff says:

My horse was cut on a barbed wire fence and had to be put down. I'd only had him 3 days and he spent next 2 weeks at vets, 2 ops and lots of painrelief. It was so preventable! Didn't know fence surrounded fields at livery yard.

Posted July 20, 2008

The_Homeopath says:

See? This is one of those questions that I automatically say "DUH" when I hear it.

Posted July 02, 2008

bob says:

If you use barbed wire to keep your horses in you are the stuipedest person in the world

Posted March 03, 2008

freelief says:

I've seen barbed wire lacerations firsthand. If you can afford to keep a horse, you can afford to keep them safe by making it so that they cannot come in contact with barbed wire!

Posted February 15, 2008

No way, Monkeybrain!

Tommy says:

never had a problem with barb wire and I have owned horses for 20 years. Just don't get why all the fuss is about. There are many other things more important to worry about than what type of fence your using when it comes to horses.

Posted May 27, 2009

Debbie says:

We have barbed wire. So far our horses have been safe with it. Electric wire has been known to sever limbs. Barbed wire makes an animal stop in their tracks. If a horse isn't power fed and is turned out daily, there is no reason for them to run into a fence. Ours respect it and we have 50 horses and a few cows.

Posted March 27, 2009

barb says:

I'd use barbed wire over smooth wire any day of the week. The injuries I have seen first hand have been much worse with smooth wire. The barbed wire has bite when a horse is leaning into it; the smooth wire doesn't which makes it easier for a horse to get cut "pushing" through it, they don't feel the slice.

Posted January 25, 2009

niqua says:

i love barbed wire and i think it works great, once they see it can be painfull they dont go back near the fence.

Posted September 17, 2008

XP says:

Recently, I observed a blog comment that claimed the author's horses were smarter than everyone else's and so it was fine for her to use barbed wire, because her superior, brainy horses would never come near it. Ooooooooohkaaaaaaay.

Posted May 05, 2008

 

even quiet horses that respect fence can have ACCIDENTS - just remove it!

MY OPINION

I understand that barbed wire is costly to remove and replace.

AT MINIMUM, protect your horses by installing a safer fence within the perimeter of your existing fence that will help keep horses from making ANY contact with the barbed wire.

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