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Chasin97canz Reg. Dec 2014	Posted 2016-02-01 9:38 AM Subject: Escape artist
Regular Posts: 96 Location: Rocky Mountains	Ok not some much of an artist but am I the only one that has a horse that opens the gates that are closed by a chain!? I had to throw a lot of 4 horses into a panel pen for a few days and every single night one of them opens it! It's rather annoying considering I has to tromp through several feet of snow to get them back because I have a downed fence that needed fixing. Lol needless to say I'm going to need to get a carabiner to lock them in the next time I need to do this.
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cheryl makofka Reg. Jan 2011	Posted 2016-02-01 10:00 AM Subject: RE: Escape artist
The Advice Guru Posts: 6419	Nope I had a horse where I had to chain below the top wire and above the bottom, or he would undo it
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Fun2Run Reg. Jul 2005	Posted 2016-02-01 10:07 AM Subject: RE: Escape artist
A Barrel Of Monkeys Posts: 12972 Location: Texas	I have one like that. He respects electric fence tho, and that's the only way I can keep him in.
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just4fun Reg. Mar 2007	Posted 2016-02-01 10:08 AM Subject: RE: Escape artist
Worst.Housekeeper.EVER. Location: Missouri	None of mine mess with the chain, but I do have one that does this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8-FUhInE58 I use it to my advantage... lock him up to eat so no one steals his food, then he lets himself out when he's done! Yea! One less trip for me! lol!
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Tmain Reg. Sep 2013	Posted 2016-02-01 10:41 AM Subject: RE: Escape artist
Veteran Posts: 154	Yep- chains on the gate, door latches, double ended snaps. Carabiners are pretty good- I think he still can get that open if he really wants to
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Red Raider Reg. Jul 2010	Posted 2016-02-01 10:48 AM Subject: RE: Escape artist
Toastest with the Mostest Posts: 5712 Location: That part of Texas	When I was younger, I had a pony/small horse that was running buddies with my Dad's roping horses. My Dad would catch his heading and heeling horse, put them up in the barn in the stalls and have them ready to head out in the morning before the sun was up. That little brat pony would go over to the stalls (they faced outward towards an open pen) and he would be able to undo any rope, latch, chain or other thing my Dad put on there to free his friends. We tried sliding bars to keep him from being able to open them but he figured out how to pull those out of the doors too. We finally had to employ a lock/pad-lock option on a chain (big tractor pulling chain) to keep him from opening the doors. I spent many a morning in my childhood running down our pasture on the 4-wheeler to retrieve Dad's horses and yelling, "Don't kill Ernie!!" because my Dad was threatening to.
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