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popp

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would you buy one?
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I would consider it if it was cheap and/or really good.

I believe at worst their legs can suffer from it? At best they just make a bloody modgy mess of their bed which is hard to muck out!
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It depends on when it did it. If it walked around at feed tiem I wouldn't mind. Would depend on everything else, really, and the price. Would also depend on how it's vice might fit in with my choice of lifestyle for it. For example, if all my horses were out 24/7, I wouldn't have a problem with it
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i have a lovely lovely horses was told he would only box walk till he stettled in now six months on still doing it. buts hes a dream to ride only prob is they just been turned out 4 first time yessterday since i got him and im think of selling to a home with winter turnout as feel its unfair on him being stressed in a stable all nxt winter grr i love him to bit though
 
Mine box walks! Although its a fault with him i'd rather not have i don't mind we have managed to find the easiest way to control the mess he makes it with rubber matting and a thin-ish layer of bedmax shavings. It's not affected him in anyway, and i don't notice it anymore its just natural to me! I'd rather have a box walker than any other type of vice such as cribbing!
 
ive got one that box trots! (he is 12.2hh). never bothered me, he is the tidiest pony i have ever seen in a stable if put on shavings, and ok they get ground to dust quickly if he is in alot, but it never takes me more then 5 mins to skip out!
He is 28 this year, has had a very hard working life and is only slightly stiff in his hocks, not a mark on his legs at all.
I cant see how box walking would put any more strain on legs then blatting round the field playing, or even just the constant movement of a horse that is out!
 
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