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Thunder, here's the solution to your horse-chasing dogs! 



I run a boarding kennel. Everything is commercial grade chainlink. I recently had a 4000 sq. ft. area put in so large dogs can stretch their legs. It's 6 ft. high with angle brackets and wire on top to foil jumpers, which adds another foot of height. The wire is also buried a foot in the ground. I haven't had it long enough to really test it on the escape artists, but from what I've read on this board, no matter what sort of fencing you put in, or how much you pay, eventually there will be a dog that will find a way out, if it's really determined.

My suggestion to you would be to put up what you think might work, but is still affordable. I have yet to have a dog rip its way through chainlink, except where it was already damaged by age or lack of maintenance. I have had a couple of jumpers go over a 6' run. One wound up on the roof, then jumped to the ground from there. The other just hopscotched from run to run until it was in the one nearest the kennel door! 

The area I fenced off cost around $8,600 Canadian.

And right now, you could probably get up a good game of hockey on it, but it's bloody useless for turning out dogs, unless THEY know how to skate!

@#$%^$!! WINTER!! 

What a pic!

I have 5 ft fencing with horse fencer on top.   my girl was going over 3ft gates at 8 weeks old.  It didn't take her long to go over top 5ft so we strung wire.  she was eyeballing that wire as we were putting it up and she knew she wasn't going to like it.  After getting zapped once was about all it took to take a healthy respect for the wire. 

i have met a few horses like that in the pic i didnt think they were that uncommon seems to be one in every field in the horse boarding stable
pretty scary for the dogs lol

We went with the post and rail fencing, with fence guard mesh. Like in the pic above.  Its more attractive then chain link.  But not many dogs will chew thru 10 guage galvanized chain link.  The thin 14 guage chain link was like candy for a couple of our dogs.

Kyle

When I moved to my farm there was already horse board/plank fencing around the house and down to the barn. Expensive, but I added buried invisible fencing along the fenceline to keep dogs away from horses and away from the board fence. This gives them a secure area to play but does allow neighboring dogs to come inside.

Since there is already a visible barrier (horse fencing) the invisible electric fence works well to keep my dogs contained. I would not use it by itself or for very high prey dogs.

Then for my stud dog I built a pen using 6' tall 2x4 welded wire backed up w/ electric wire at nose height and cattle panels cut in half length-wise along the bottom of the wire fence to prevent digging. Not the prettiest thing but there are no break outs from the pen. The dog I keep in the pen isn't even trained on the invisible fencing, but he stays in it because the other dogs do and because of the visible barrier (horse fencing) He is always watched when outside his pen.

If I could afford it I'd do the board fencing w/ mesh wire and backup w/ electric.

Haha, Sunsilver, that looks QUITE SIMILAR to what our horses think of the dogs. Well...a few. Most of them are too fat to move that fast. I'm sure winters ARE pretty lousy up there. Still I wouldn't mind living in Canada. 

Thanks for the suggestions everyone!

Not sure what gage our chain link is in the runs, but it certainly is candy for my two pups as well. It's because the darn stuff unravels. 

I'm going to look around a bit. Never imagined fencing would be such a pain before I actually had need of it.