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Everyone loves to chase loose horses in a mini-dress when it's 15 degrees!

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    Everyone loves to chase loose horses in a mini-dress when it's 15 degrees!

    Friday night I was all dressed up to head to a fancy event - black sequined mini dress, knee-high boots with heels, nylons, makeup, etc....

    As I was walking out the door, my dad comes back from watering the cows and says "I need help...the horses and cows are loose and they are running EVERYWHERE!" [I keep the horses at their house and got ready for the event there after doing my horse chores]

    GREAT!

    I yank off my knee-high heeled boots, slip on my Bogs, throw on a coat, and run out the door.

    I head to the barn to grab halters and a bucket of grain and I can hear my gelding blowing/snorting WAY OUT in the big field, two fields over from where he belongs and across what should've been two fence lines... My mare was still in her paddock where she belonged, bless her heart! I grabbed her and put her in the barn and headed out across the paddock to find my gelding. No flashlight.

    Trudge through the heifer paddock, no heifers in sight. I can still hear my gelding running like a maniac out in the dark...

    Get to the next fence line, a 5-strand Gallagher fence...which is FLAT. I pick my way through the wire which was not broken anywhere, it was just literally flattened onto the ground, and get out in the big field, where I can hear him blowing and snorting out his nose. I shake some grain and yell to him, and cross my fingers that he doesn't plow over the top of me in the dark...

    Then I hear him carefully walking towards me. When he finally got to me, I put his halter on, and then headed back towards the barn, through two different gates.

    Get to the barn, check him over. Thank God, no scratches anywhere!

    Meanwhile, the parents are out trying to locate 30-something black angus that are scattered to the hills.

    He went through a 2-strand fence which put him in the heifer paddock that bordered the horse paddock, then went through another 5 strands and took the heifers with him, which brought him into the big field with the rest of the cattle. From there, we think he took out another 3 strand fence that brought all of them into the hayfield out back. We KNOW he took out the first two lines, but the 3 strand may have been taken out by the cows and he just followed.

    I have NO IDEA what spooked him, but dad said he heard him take off and then heard the fences snapping and all hell breaking loose but he couldn't really see what was going on. He was not impressed!

    So, he is on night-time stall confinement for a while because dad doesn't want a repeat of Friday night!

    Doesn't everyone love chasing down loose horses in the dark, when it's 15 degrees, and in a dress?!?!
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    Can't believe he was ok! Sounds like you both got very, very lucky.

    Did your dad find all the cows?
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    • #3
      Never fun! Glad you caught him fairly easily. Hope all the cows are found.

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      • #4
        Wonder if you didn't have some type of nocturnal visitor? Even known to be idiot horses don't get that violently panicked that quick and flee without regard for their safety.

        Doesn't have to be anything that dramatic. Have personally seen a random group of 4 or 5 young deer jump into and out of a line of four 1 acre, adjoining paddocks and send the about 10 horses simultaneously crashing into or jumping out over the 4 board fence. Mercifully, nobody hurt and the ones that jumped out ran into the barn right to their stalls. Fence lost a few boards but stayed in one piece.

        No idea what got into the deer but they appeared to be young males and it was right about this time of year. One might suppose they were cruising looking for does, or were just stupid. Or both, nothing was chasing them and heard no gunshots.

        When I lived in So. Texas, a good friend bred and trained very nice Arabs. They had a horrible problem with their yearlings who lived out in a big hill country pasture-young deer would get in and run around and around with the yearlings, cost them a couple to fractures and nearly lost another to exhaustion and colic. Again, happened in late fall. Had to modify hundreds of yards of fence at a substantial expense and you bet she lost her distaste for venison.

        Reminds me why I like boarding out though. Better them chasing them me
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        • #5
          That sounds so scary-- to hear him galloping, knowing there are all those wire fences out there. So glad he got lucky!

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            Originally posted by Polydor View Post
            Never fun! Glad you caught him fairly easily. Hope all the cows are found.

            P.
            The field they ended up in was also enclosed with 5 strand perimeter fencing, and quite large, as in, 80 acres or so, so they were still contained, just scattered far and wide within the field!

            The location of their paddock is like, right in the front yard, so it would be unlikely that something was right there that spooked him.

            Last week our neighbor up the road had a big pig get loose, and it was wandering in the large field across the road. It was far enough away that you couldn't really tell it was a pig (I knew because another neighbor called me to tell me there was a wandering pig and when I got to the barn, I kept an eye out for it, and saw it barely across the street at the top of the hay field). Ever since then, he's been a little edgy so I think any small noise or something moving could've set him off. He doesn't like pigs, and even though it was far away, he was very weirded out when he saw it up there wandering about
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              Yeah, I couldn't believe he was okay either. As I was running to the barn to get grain, I yelled to my mom to shut the fence off in case he, or any of the cows, were tangled in it. It's a super duper electric fence and anything tangled would be getting shocked really bad. The wire didn't even break, it was just layed flat.

              It's a Gallagher fence that covers several hundred acres and the box itself is hard wired into a 220 line. It's a serious fence. Which is why I was so surprised he ran right through it not once, but three times...he's gotten shocked before and is VERY respectful of it, so to run through that much of it, he had to of been really freaked out.
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              • #8
                Did you still make it to your event okay and have a good time?

                Glad your horses are okay!
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                  Originally posted by AmarachAcres View Post
                  Did you still make it to your event okay and have a good time?

                  Glad your horses are okay!
                  Yes! I had to fill hay nets and carry water buckets into their stalls in my dress and nylons, but by the time I was done that, my ride was there to get me!

                  I normally leave them out, with a choice to go in the aisle of the barn at night, so all the hay was already put down outside, and their water tub is also outside; so I had to re-feed and water in the stalls!

                  My dad, who was just starting to like my gelding, now thinks he's an a**hole
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