Posted 2006-01-29 12:03 AM (#36142 - in reply to #34753) Subject: RE: cribbing collars
Regular
Posts: 52 Location: Loxahatchee, Fl.
Besides if this horse chewing the wood or grabing it a sucking wind on it. If it is the latter the horse is an endorphin junky. When they grab it and suck it releases endorphins and they get into a zone like a runner. Either learn to live with it or get rid of the horse.
We can't clean up people on dope, you think your going to clean up a horse. If that horse is chewing it's one story. But that sucking is just an addiction. I have never reall heard of a cleand up horse.
Posted 2006-01-29 9:46 AM (#36154 - in reply to #34753) Subject: RE: cribbing collars
Veteran
Posts: 127 Location: PA
This is such a big topic and I have read all the posts with keen interest......we are all fortunate to get such a wide range of responses from this forum. I guess I have been fortunate over the years to not have owned a cribber or had a horse start cribbing. I have although owned horses that chew on wood, and that is not the same thing as cribbing. Horses chew on wood out of boredom or a need for something deficient in their diet. Cribbing is when they grab something solid, usually wood and start sucking air......it is addictive and they love it...just like a drug. I have not heard the connection to stomach ulcers before but it is certainly worth looking into.....if that were all it took to stop horses from cribbing I am all for it. I will add that over the many years I have owned horses......it has been my experience that the more time they have outside with their herd buddies in the pasture the happier they are. Even in bad weather (with the barn available). Horses that are closed off from their herdmates and kept stall-bound are much more prone to cribbing.
cribbing collars
