Strong, cold winds came in overnight, again, waking up to freezing weather after our beautiful 60’s yesterday, darn it! Wind rattled around so much it kept us awake during the night for a while. Even the sun didn’t seem to warm it up much, with bitterly cold winds from the north. I can’t even imagine how bad it must be in the northern plains right now! Regardless of the chilly weather, Hubby and I were determined to put up our new electric corral, a kit we bought from Valley Vet and had had delivered last week. We bought the largest portable corral we could, as most of them only seemed to provide about a 30′ by 30′ space, which would be a bit crowded for our two guys. The most time-consuming thing about it was wrapping the polytape onto the spindle provided! We put up the 12 plastic posts in no time, counting about 5 yards between them as recommended, and wound two strands of the poly tape, with PLENTY leftover for even a bigger corral, or extra strands as needed. Despite the wind blowing at about 25 mph, the posts and strands held easily, and it only took moments to stick in the ground post and hook up the charger, which claims to achieve 6000 V with just two D batteries! Not wanting to draw anything off the batteries, we didn’t actually test it by touching it, because the only thing it needs to do is deter the horses, and the strands themselves will do that, hopefully, even without the charger. The whole process only took about 10-15 minutes or so, and that was trying to figure it all out as we went. Now we could easily do it in a fraction of that time. We retrieved the horses from their anchors and put them inside, Clio first, and Apollo got so excited he kicked and leaped and jumped around like a kid, glad to be off this anchor. They spent the rest of the day grazing around the space, which we figure is easily about 60′ by 60′. No one tried to escape, and they seemed quite happy at the whole idea. Now we can easily move the corral around my brother’s big yard every few days, so that it won’t get too worn down, and the “fertilizer” will be more easily spread around : -). Glad to get it finished and get back in to the warmth indoors! Enjoyed some football and dinner with my brother before retiring back to the RV, bracing for 20 degree weather. Brrrr!
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