Thankfully the growth in Sonny's feet has slowed somewhat in the last couple of weeks. This enables my very sore back & arms to recover. However I don't get off so lightly!
There is the ongoing battle to keep Sonny in the part of the houseyard allocated for him on a given night. Usually I make sure he can see the other 2 mares. However due to the nature of the this hilly property he can often only see them when they are resting under a tree along a boundary of their paddock.
So unless the separating fences have extra electric tape along them, Sonny will have a good go at breaking out.
Below are a few photos from his excapades night before last. This fence has old grape vines growing all along it although they have lost their leaves for winter. The vines have permanent black bird mesh over them. So it should be (or rather, has been) a good fence. That is until Sonny wants to be somewhere else that this fence is preventing him from getting too.
He has obviously walked his feet up the fence until it yielded to his weight. He didn't have a mark on him even though he broke the mesh, bent star pickets, broke plain wires, tore the bird mesh in half & completely dragged one grape vine right out of the ground as he broke the mesh down. The other 3 sides of this orchard paddock have electric tape around them.
I knew he was out again because he didn't wake me during the night with his screaming everytime he lost sight of the mares. I'm running out of fences! And places to graze him as he destroys more sections of fence. The owners of this place won't pay for any repairs & the posts are getting weak & the wires are getting rusty.
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