This message is from: GAIL RUSSELL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Gayle,
My vet showed up late for an appointment yesterday. Had to put down a horse with a broken leg. The horse had been in a stall (a manufactured stall setup DESIGNED for horses) and got something, probably his TOE, caught in a very narrow track that the door slides in. (This was with the stall door slid closed - and everything properly in place.) They had to sledge hammer the tracks down on the outside to even get the door open and get inside to free the horse. He said he could not imagine how the horse did it. While we are talking about fencing, you (or someone else on the list) probably know about all the accidents that can come with pipe panels. I have the kind with a bottom rail in the round pen. I gather you have to be VERY CAREFUL to make sure there are no holes under the bottom rail that feet can get caught under. I also have the kind that has a rail about ten inches off the ground. I gather that kind is safer for foals and feet, but horses that stick their heads through the bottom and next-up rails (to eat, of course) can end up wedging their heads in the panel and die that way. I've considering trying to find a way to attach an electric wire between the bottom two rails so they won;t do this. Have not found the a premanufactured insulator setup to mount on the 1 5/8 inch pipes - does anyone know if they exist? Are my fears well founded? Busy watching my maiden mare, Luisa, prepare to foal on our little in-house TV. At least I think that is what she plans. :) She looked like she was in labor early this morning - standing up, then lying down, then rolling over, shifting her weight. And the front part of her bag started to fill yesterday. She was due April 3. I've often jokingly said that if >you put them into a padded cell for their own protection, they would eat the >padding, colic, and die! > >Gayle Ware >Field of Dreams >Eugene, OR > > > > Gail Russell Forestville CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
