What kind of fencing should I use for my horses?

I am replacing the fencing on my land, taking out the barbed wire. What is a good and cheap alternative to barbed wire that I can use with my wooden fence posts, that is also safe for horses, but will also keep any other kind of livestock in as well.|||Post and rail is your best with a line of electric to stop them rubbing on the rails but depending on the other livestock you can just use electric.


Electric on it's own wouldn't stop sheep or cattle so you would need something else. Stock fencing (the wire grids) is good as long as you have a line of electric inside that to prevent the horse getting close enough to the stock fence to put their foot through. You can get attachments which you screw onto the fence posts and they hold the electric fence about a foot inside the posts.|||Electric fencing is the best, thick white tape so they can see it easily and depending on how much land you have to cover you can either hook it up to mains elecricity or you can get special electric fencing solar panels. About three rows of tape going across (one at top, middle, and bottom of fence post) this means foals wownt go under it and all horses will respect it more.


Post and rail fencing is the best kind but it is much more expensive! This would mean puttilg rails of wood between fence posts.|||Electric Fencing. BTW Barbed wire is more for cattle cause they have tougher skin. When we first got horses one of them would always get out, cause we used barbed wire, but the second we got electric fencing she hasn't even attempted to get out.|||Good on you for taking out the barbed wire. A old fashioned post and rail fence are the best for horses but it's not exactly the cheapest. But a cheaper type would a 6-8 strand electric fence.|||Any electric fencing will work. And it's cheap!