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ReplyDeleteI grew up on a farm in rural Canada, and all we had were barbed wire fences. The horses grew up in them and lived their entire lives in them.
If barb wire fences are maintained perfectly, kept tight, no extra wire around, and the bottom wires not too low, there isn't too many serious injuries. But it still happened, then and now, even with horses that live their entire lives in barbed wire. Most horses can run directly into a barbed wire fence, and even be chased over them, and often get away with only a few cuts and scrapes (I say often because some are seriously hurt) But the most serious injuries are when a horse accidently gets a front foot over the bottom wire, either by playing, pawing at the fence or grazing too close. Then the horse goes to move away from the fence the foot is caught, often at the fetlock joint, and since a horse's natural reaction is to flee from danger they will pull back and literally "saw" off a huge amount of tissue. As a youth my family had two horses with life and death type wounds from barbwire fences - one horse did exactly what I described and ended up with proud flesh at his cornet band, the other horse ran his shoulder into the barbed wire fence and ripped out a huge chunk of flesh and muscle. As a young adult I've had two different horses hook front feet on barbwire fences, one ended up with a terrible scar, the other only had minor injuries but ended up living at risk because he just had to paw when it was time to be fed hay, and he was always getting his front foot on the wire.
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