Box walker and box rest???

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Anybody got any bright ideas??? He has to be on box rest and hes a bit of a stress head/chronic box walker and bed trasher??? He isnt food orientated at all :(
 
My lami is a box walker......when he was on 9 months box rest it was a nightmare, Sedalin didn't work. Dotting hay nets round his stable didn't work......I had to inject him for six weeks with acp to keep him dopy. After that we just had to deal with it.
 
Can u borrow a goat to put in stable too? A sheep or goat will oftn stop a box walker, a donkey would too but then that's a lot of mucking out!
 
Thanks for the comments, cant do an electric fenced off field as hes an excellent fence jumper!!! Tbh i think hes just guna have to deal with it! Was just wandering if anyone had any boredem ideas?? Would be sooo much easier if he was food orientated but he just isnt interested!
 
I remember a member on here had the same problem and she hung empty plastic 2 litre coke bottles filled with stones around the horses stable. And hey presto, he completely stopped box walking! It seemed he like them resting on him, seemed to comfort him!?!?
 
Mine probably isn't as bad as yours but she actually settled much better than I thought she would when she realised that she was staying in. She is pretty chilled in the evenings now and only really stresses and does laps when others are going out and at dinner time.
 
When my boy was on rest I had a radio on all day until the others come in a mirror, dog toys (sausages on a rope) lol hanging nut ball lots of ready grass with treats in the bowl hay with carrots in, fuss cuddles and visitors from his friends tied up outside his box. And a bed so big and cozy he just chilled x
 
We found a stable mirrors (one on each side of the box), a football if the horse is either young or tends to move things around and the radio on. There is also a calmer that was mentioned by Imogen in the vet section a while ago, not cheap but has worked really well in some cases.
 
alex2601 said:
Thanks for the comments, cant do an electric fenced off field as hes an excellent fence jumper!!! Tbh i think hes just guna have to deal with it! Was just wandering if anyone had any boredem ideas?? Would be sooo much easier if he was food orientated but he just isnt interested!
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Get some heras fencing and rubber feet, he wont jump that, its also easy to put up and move
 
I used zylkene to break my tb out of the habit of exploding when walking out and in to her pen, she went from being fully fit to immediate rest, she was fine for a week or so then started to blow her stack going out and coming in if there was as much as a squeak or a gust of wind, it did break the cycle she had gotten into so while expensive it did do the trick
 
My youngster had 3months box rest at last Feb and she had never been stabled for long periods of time up until this point.

She was terrible for box walking. I double netted her haynets, and the stuffed carrots in the net for her to find, gave her a treat ball, hung up a lick it and stable mirror. All of that seemed to keep her occupied for longer, she got better the more she got used to being in. I used to walk her out in hand for grazing, and once the vet gave the okay she started going on the horse walker twice a day.
 
Mirror, radio, toys hanging about the place and rotating them so he doesn't get bored with the same one, companion next door, lots of grooming and carrot stretches, you could try teaching him tricks depending on the injury. I wouldn't be tempted to take him out for grass in hand as he may start anticipating it everyday, once he realises he's staying in he might chill out a bit :)
 
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