Could have cried when I got to the yard this morning!

[Petrie]

I don't usually do posts like this, but who else will appreciate it?!!!!

Arrived at the yard this morning to find my young horse standing surrounded by torn bits of rug, pipe insulator, and bits of wood!!!

I had stupidly left a spare rug over his stable wall, which he had pulled down and totally destroyed, leaving bits of rug all strewn round the stable, churned up in his bed.

He had then managed to rip off some insulator which is round the pipes to his automatic drinker (we put these up really high, so he must have been standing on a bucket to reach them!!!)

And then, get this, he had actually chewed through a rafter in his roof!!! I mean, right through it.

I love this horse, but sometimes I could kill him!!!

Honestly, I could have cried.

 

[Gorgeous George]

oh no, it's amazing what they can manage to do! I hope he is ok. do you think something alarmed him in the night? New rug for christmas perhaps............

 

[happihorse]

Is he trying to tell you something?! It seems very strange behaviour if he is used to being in!

Although his has done a lot of damage to his rug and the stable, at least he is physically ok!

Just an idea, but all of our water pipes to the automatic drinkers are in the stables and we have lagged them with foam. We used some drainpipe (cut down one side to allow them to slip over the pipes) and duck tape to stop them ripping the lagging off!

 

[Honeybee]

If it makes you feel any better.
Paris got out this morning and jumped all over mum's lovely garden, Paris enjoyed every min of it the little cow bag!!

Horses who would want them!!xx

 

[vanessahook]

dont worry i also have a horse like this, she is having to stay in while my friend's horse is injured and she is systematically eating her way out of a wooden stable!!!

 

[tarbra]

Unbelievable what they can get up to. He must have got bored or frightened by something? Good luck when you get him a new rug!

 

[Baggybreeches]

My young TB (who is a bit coltish) stood tied up last night while my mum was faffing about him, and grabbed the front left hem of his lovely new stable rug (that mum bought him!) with his teeth and started yanking like there was no tomorrow, I couldnt shout at him for laughing and mum was having a hairy fit!!!

 

[Petrie]

I try to give them as much turnout as possible, so he was out from 8.30 until 5.30 yesterday, and they have ad lib haylage, so it's not like he'd been stuck in all day, and had nothing to munch on!

He is generally very cheeky and mischievous, and I would never normally leave a rug within his reach, but I forgot I'd left it there!

It is odd though that he was so distructive last night. He still had haylage left, so he hadn't run out of food. I did wonder if something upset him in the night, but I should think he just got bored and was making his own fun!

As for the wood - they're not ideal stables for horses like him, but they're all I have at the moment! Although, at this rate, I may have to find some more soon!

thanks for the advice re. the pipes. They were so high up in the roof, and I have metal piping round the one that goes down to the bowl, so I was really surprised when I saw he had managed to reach it!

Horses, eh.

 

[reynold]

my old boy chewed the beam with the electric light cable nailed to it - chewed the cable as well - but as we're on genny power managed to not electrocute himself - and this was in normal wooden windsor stables.

he also got the auto drinker water pipe in another block of stables, ripped it and the drinker off the wall and flooded his own and four other stables - LOTs of mucking out of sodden shavings and large bill for mending damage

is anything really 'horse proof' ?!! )

and he wasn't bored - but he WAS teething - andit's that time of year atm for the babies.