JUMPING OUT HIS FIELD

[onthespotfine]

Any one have any ideas/tips how to stop my horse (15.2 irish sports) jumping out his field? Hes been at same yard for two years and has done it all the time ive had him which is two years.! is in no way being bullied as in large field with two other geldings only who he gets on great with. He jumps into the other fields with and without horses in but will always put himself back, stated to jump into the yard now.fencing is approx 4 foot,has never jumped into next doors land though has navicular in both fronts i know he jumped affiliated and has had a busy jumping/hunting life just want to stop him as hes annoying other liveries and is getting more frequent

[catkin]

sorry, but I don't think you can easily stop them except with high fences and perhaps electrified. My aged, wonderful section A has jumpted out of the school today where he was turned out with a friend an a big haynet. Over 4'. He does this from time to time and I don't think I could stop him!

[baggygirl]

What about some noisy eletric wire/tape that the horses can hear and they refuse to go near it?

[onthespotfine]

Have tried electric tape but he isnt bothered by it when he jumps it and its high hes actually split the tape where hes caught it so that gets worrying as can become dangerous, have also been told to hobble him but i think he would seriously injure himself, to make fence higher would cost a fortune and they dont stay permanently in one field i rotate. it may be that ive got to admit defeat with him as hes not actually causing any harm when he jumps out

[activerider]

Move yards to higher electric fence and buy a guardian rug

[sjm]

Our fell youngest jumps the fence for fun , but he hates white plastic bags , so we tied them on the fence it works .

[catkin]

My section A does it rarely and there is usually a good reason ie. not enough grass or (as in the latest case) he's just bored. He has been turned out for a couple of hours a day with a haynet and a friend because of the snow, in the school. He wasn't cold, he wasn't hungry and there wasn't anything to attract him elsewhere. For an 11'3hh sec a, 4'3'' you would think is a deterent, but not! If he wants to go, he wants to go. No amount of plastic would stop him. But, he does seem to respect electric fence on a very high zap. It just wasn't something I could easily/wanted to put round the school. I know he was bored because on closer inspection he had been jumping the fences left up in the school and had trashed two cones!

[sometime]

Only real solution which might work is another electric fence about 6ft inside the perimeter fence not enough gap between to land in but far enough to deter the jump. Could work out expensive thoughas you will have to do the entire perimeter

[dawnie]

It's a pain isn't it! My 17.2 used to do it regularly, I got used to the farmer ringing me "that big orse 'o your is out" but more often than not when I got there he had returned to his field by himself or depending on how his fancy took him ... back to the yard and in his stable. I never seemed to matter what he was out with or what the grass was like. We did have a two hour rule to bring him in as he always seemed to get wander lust after he had been turned out for two hours. He seems quite happy with the grazing where we are as it's interesting, a few mounds and a couple of ponds (and he does climb the mounds and wades into the ponds) and they are 3 ajoining large fields with the gates open to roam and edged by woodland on two and the two edges drop away at the fence. He does seem have stopped wandering, however he will still make own way in if it starts to rain or gets chilly. We really put it down to him being bored, he is a horse that likes work and loves the creature comforts of his stable, and that not because that's all he has been used to as I bought him as a two year old who had been happily living out since a foal and doing perfectly well in the Welsh elements.

[catkin]

Dawnie your 17'2hh sounds just like my 11'3hh!

[magpie]

My Highland jumps out from time to time, usually in the winter when he doesn't get ridden as much. In the summer, when he is ridden nearly every day, he never does, so we deduced that more riding = less jumping out and it's working so far. He also has a 3ft wide 5ft electric fence in front of the wooden post nd railing and we had to put it in front of the 5ft metal gate - both if these he has been seen to jump (though the gate he jumped a few times when the fencing wasn't up!)

Not sure if/how much you ride him, but might be worth just exercising him before he is out out?

[onthespotfine]

Its intresting reading what everyone has put,he can be turned out onto a new fresh field but will still jump out always had good grazing so dont think its the 'grass is greener' im def thinking hes bored but he has navicular and i worry how much he should do vet said no jumping to prolong his hacking life but i agree it sounds like exercise is the key as hes had a very busy competion life must be hard for him trying to adjust to do nothing.! and yes 6ft fencing should stop him otherwise he will be on borrowed time..

[mf]

I had a sj who did it and then used to chase the mares etc. He was 17 hand and a pest. We built him the 'rapter pen'. We fixed the tall electric fence posts to the top of the four foot post and rail and stuck 3 strands of electric on it. At over 7 foot it stopped him. Then he started jumping the 5'9 menage fence with me on board instead!!

[Deleted]

When you turn him out to graze, put him in a small paddock with an animal that is not likely to wind him up, and hobble him. Only remove hobbles when you are there so he can have a run around.