What are good but cheap types of fencing for horses?

Question

What are good but cheap types of fencing for horses?

Answer 1

Barbed wire may be cheap to install but the vet bills are VERY EXPENSIVE.  Barbed wire is not a good choice for horses.

Answer 2

barb wire i suppose, or if you have your own land and depending where you live you can use trees you can cut down.

Answer 3

1 1/2" electric tape. The tape itself has 700+ pounds of break strength if the electricity goes out.

Answer 4

Elesctric wires is good and easy all you need is lots of electric wire and stakes. DO NOT use Barbed wire if it is a small paddock under 2 acres as a horse could easy cut himslf or get caught and face seruous damage.

Answer 5

http://www.horseguardfence.com/

It's electric tape, not nearly as expensive as you'd think.  Cheaper than wood/boards.  Also safer than wire so it cuts down on vet bills, if you count that as a factor in cost.  And you can run it on a solar charger for free.

Answer 6

Cheapest - but labor intensive - is barbed wire strung from post to post.  We used cedar posts from trees growing on the property.  You dig a hole with a fence hole digger, plant the post in concrete.  Ours are about 6 - 8 feet apart (can't remember).  Then you run barbed wire at the top, bottom and middle.  Works great.

Answer 7

u can get chicken wire

or wood

or those fences

or a really long chain

Answer 8

If you want cheap and labor-light (you don't want to dig a lot of holes for wooden fence posts), this is what we did.

We used a heavy gauge 5' tall welded wire, I believe 12 gauge, and stretched it ourselves to those cheap metal fence posts you just pound into the ground.  We attached the fence to the metal-posts with lighter gauge wire from a cheap roll of wire.

Since we were unable to stretch it tight enough to resist a really determined horse, at about the 3' or 3-1/2' level we ran one strand of strong tensile wire (again fairly cheap stuff) and wrapped it around every 2nd or 3rd T-post to attach it --  we were able to stretch that one strand of wire very tight with our bare hands, though every farm store has cheap fence pullers which could do the job easier for you.

Now the welded wire we used was a "rabbit fence" style with little wire-pricks at the bottom which dig into the ground.  If your welded wire has a smooth bottom, you'd probably want to run a second tensile wire low, maybe a foot off the ground, since the horse may push the bottom out with his nose.

It is VERY important that, if you use a wire fence with horses, you put colorful flags/tape along the wire where they can clearly see it.  Horses don't see wire very well and can run right into it if it is not clearly marked.  We bought the cheap yellow and red construction site marking ribbon and tied it to every section of fence.

For ultimate horse safety you might want to consider covering the tops of the metal fence posts with some protection like PVC-pipe  t-joints, or tennis balls, or wrapped in cloth/plastic -- anything to keep the horse from scraping his head on the metal tops.  However, we didn't go to that trouble and it never has been a problem for us.

Answer 9

trees

Answer 10

Personally I like electric fencing with wooden posts. I use the tape ( it will break in an emergency) and the charger unit runs off batteries.

Answer 11

posts and boards, pretty sturdy and you could get a discount if you buy in bulk. but make sure to take the horses into consideration, if they like to jump fences youd need taller ones.

Answer 12

The Wooden Poles with the wire that has 10am*10cm squares through it, I dont recomend eletric fences because if your horse is young it might get spooked from thje zap  and run into the fences and seriously injure itself spook it and will be a little jumpy after it gets shocked.

Answer 13

You can buy thick bands or electric wire and you can buy plastic poles with metal ends to put in the ground. The bands/wire need to be hooked to a solar powered battery that is mounted on a thick wooden post or tree in the sun. It is cheap, easy, and simple. Good luck! P.S. DO NOT USE BARBED WIRE!!!!