There's quite a bit of yard work that needs to be done around my home, besides weeding the flower beds and vegetable gardens. I need to paint fences, tidy the run-in and look after that trench along the middle paddock fence. I recently had a boarder I was nervous about putting out with my own horses. As it turns out the horse was a fence walker, and in the time I kept it separated from the others, it 'walked' a trench along one fence line. Now the rain pools in the trench and the two holes the horse carved it as it turned around each time.

Once the horse was allowed in with the others, the fence walking stopped. Fence or stall walking is a common vice. Learn what causes fence walking, the effects of stall or fence walking and what you can do about it. And if anyone is looking for me, I'll be outside with my rake and shovel.

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