Fencing
Nov. 11th, 2025 08:16 pmFirefly got a good grooming and a tiny bit of work on backing and moving various bits of her body when asked. I really wanted a short ride, but it wasn't to be.
Maddie, her new husband Hunter along with Lily came to help with the new pasture. We ran a line up the hill from Winter Quarters to Upper Deadwood Pasture. The girls want to call the pasture Cow Patty Pasture. I'm voting no.
The new fence is just some t-posts with two strands of 3/4 inch electric tape, so it wasn't hard to build. While finishing up I noticed that the fence we were tying into had a brace wire run on the wrong diagonal. Oops. It took a couple of trips back to the Red Barn for the right supplies but that is now fixed.
Last but not least was to remove some most of the remaining electric fence that runs around Winter Quarters. That was only about 60 feet of very ugly old fence. I replaced it with equally ugly old metal fence panels. That allowed me to put a metal gate in the fence so we can get the horses into and out of the new pasture. Getting that done and the horses down the hill for the first time took until it was fully dark, but it is DONE.
Tomorrow I want to take some really good measurements and then order new fence panels to install. The temporary ones are a miserable lot of bent, badly dented, and miss-matched junk. In many cases the loops that allow panels to connect together are broken off. Some have lost their legs and have to be held up by the neighbors. There are at least 4 different manufacturers so the pattern and kind of connecting loops (if they are still there) don't match up. To top the misery off, the panels don't fit into the space correctly so my fence is zig zag with at least two different lengths of panels. The zig zag is fine as it helps hold the fence up, but it isn't something I want to look at forever.
