Okay, so my new mare likes to chew the fence, which i didn't kow about it when we bought her. She by now has taught my weanling this bad habit, as they are sharing a fence line. 

 I have taken dove sopa and rubbed it on the fence, as it was recommended by a friend, but that isn't helping, maybe a little with my weanling. 

Any other suggestions on what I can do? She isn't wind sucking so i don't know if a cribbing collar would do the job?

 

Any suggestions welcome!

 Hot tape.  Essential for keeping horses off the fence.

If i could do hot tape I would, on bottom and top fence rails, but we can't due to missing electrical outlets by the pens. The pens are on one side of our property and the house on the other and i don't have any way right now to get electrical over there. 

How about a solar fence charger - that's all we use - works great - easy to install...

 I agree, hot tape about a foot inside the fence will take care of the problem, and as another poster said, a solar panel is all you need. Wood chewing is a hard habit to break, make sure they always have fresh hay, hopefully out of the mud and muck, fresh water, salt/mineral blocks can also help.

 Yup, get a solar charger.  No outlet needed.

 I'm gonna check and see if our feed ranch supply store has one. If they do, we gonna get one! We got the hot tape at home for a fence closer to the house, for grazing, but it is plugged in. 

 

One thing to keep in mind, a solar charger only works when the sunbeams hit it. You cannot store the solar energy when the sun is shining for when it is not shining. In other words, when the sun goes down the hot wire will not work. I used to live in Anchorage, Alaska so I know how little daylight you get during the winter, and how much you get in the summer, so I can see the limitations of solar anywhere up North.

 Hi, This is a continuation of my first reply...

I've never used a solar charger so I didn't know they had actual batteries. Of course the solar energy can charge a battery. I thought the solar chargers had the "virtual batteries" that some solar companies are trying to scam people into using.

Howdy,

  I was just elaborating on my first post to the orginal poster, I hope you didn't think I was being rude to you about the solar chargers. I just wanted to offer her more info and I didn't have time to write all of that at the time of my first post. 

Any hoo - I have not heard of 'virtual batteries' - interesting - I'll have to look that one up. Always something new =:->

A local solar company was trying to get my town's small airport to use solar for the runway lights, and was touting the fact that using solar would make it the "first airport to be totally solar". When they were told that runway lights only were used at night, and obviously solar didn't work at night, they came up with the phrase "virtual battery". When pressed to define what a virtual battery was, they had to admit that their solar system was hooked to the electrical grid and the solar did nothing to power the runway lights. The solar system fed energy into the grid during the day, then had to leach it off the grid at night, hence their word "virtual battery". No actual batteries were in the proposed system, so the runway lights were NOT run by solar. Since this local solar company is using the same scam on home owners--playing into their "green guilt" by telling them that they were running their houses completely with solar, when of course they did not run off solar at night--I figured that other companies did the same thing. I didn't want mtegge to fall for a similar scam.

 Yup, the solar chargers have a battery built in -- that's why they are heavy.  Wouldn't make much sense for so  many people to buy a charger that only ran the fence during daylight hours, LOL!

 This is going outo in a different way that I noticed with my Thoroughbred when we got him.  If he could see other animals (basically our cows and my pony) in a larger area than he was in he would chew on the fence, he stopped when we started putting him in a round pen with grass while trying to get him adjusted to cows, but the second he was back in a pen with a wooden fence he was back at it.  We think it was due to stress since he was scared of the cows, we didn't put soap or anything on the fence, but once he adjusted he stopped on his own accord, however if he spends too many days in the smaller pen, even with his companion, he'll start chewing on the fence again.

For a fast fix, you can power your hot wire with a car battery. There was instructions in a John Lyons magazine how to set it up. There is probably instructions on the net or your local farm store should also have information.