Jägerzaun

Jägerzaun or rarely Scherenzaun, is a common site as a garden fence.

Jäger = hunter, Scheren = scissors, Zaun = fence.

The fence on the left, leaning against the horse trailer, is expanded out and for transport, it is easily pushed together as shown on the left. It is remarkably light. In days gone by the titled folk liked to artificially amass wild animals on their property so that they could have a decent days shoot. As compensation to the local peasant farmers whose small copices of young trees or vegetable patches may suffer damage, they were allowed to take wood out of his lordships forests to make these fences and protect their trees/crops.

I think it looks best as a vegetable patch fence. This fence had been situated in a village housing area and was being thrown out to make way for I guess one of the modern sparkling chrome, stainless steel types available at the DIY,. No longer "In" and certainly no match for the next door Jones'.

So we have offered it a new home but I have yet to decide where. There are four units each about 3 meters long, together with metal foundation irons and wooden posts. Initially, I was thinking of re-fencing the vegetable plot as the horses simply ignored the wire net fence last year. However, I have abandoned the plot this year to the weeds bee-friendly plants and it is now 2 meters high in thistles and the like. I also fear that the horses will chew at the wood, a nasty habit they have when bored or lacking in fresh lush green grass.

My next idea is to get some geese and fence off an area but we never fence in any of the poultry during the day so that would be a waste. Will have to give it some more thought.

A horsey UK Bliper may make the connection between the horse trailer and the fence.