Cribbing collars

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What's the difference between a regular collar and a humane one?
Not something I've ever used (apart from a short time as horse came with one and had always worn it)
With my field underwater I've been looking at livery yards temporarily but most won't take on a cribber unless he wears a collar. At home I just protect what I don't want damaged and provide him places that are safe to hang off and easy to replace!
Not so easy when it's not your own place though.
 
I had a mare who used a cribbing collar, she came with it. What can I say? If she wore it she did not crib, if she did not she cribbed...

She did not wear it out in the field, and was on 12 hours a day turnout, but she seemed happy enough when in with the collar. I also took the precaution of ad lib hay in case she was uncomfortable with an acidic stomach.

I don't think I would have been happy if she had to wear it for more then the 12 hours.

I mean, I would have been happier if she did not crib at all, but she did, and they were the yard rules.
 
Me four but am completely desperate. He's literally going stir crazy stuck in and it's a case of in and able or turned out with others wearing one.
He's retired so I can't ride him and have been trying to get him out in hand until he lost the plot a few days ago and I ended up loosing him. This is so unlike him, he needs to be out 24/7
I'm still trying just to find grazing to rent as opposed to a livery set up.
 
Don't judge. Cribbing is not just a small reaction it can cover a host of problems, and having seen a cribber literally destroy stable doors and fencing, I can sympathise with the livery YO.

There is a massive difference between a horse who cribs a little after meals to one who ends up with surgical colic.

I hate cribbing, having had one who did it. I went down so many routes to manage it and in his case, living out reduced it. I ended up using a miracle collar which I padded with sheepskin when mine had to be in and that kept my YO happy but of course didn't need to when he was out. I still feel guilty that I never solved his issue, the field had nothing to crib on as was all electric.
 
Luci07 said:
Don't judge. Cribbing is not just a small reaction it can cover a host of problems, and having seen a cribber literally destroy stable doors and fencing, I can sympathise with the livery YO.

There is a massive difference between a horse who cribs a little after meals to one who ends up with surgical colic.

I hate cribbing, having had one who did it. I went down so many routes to manage it and in his case, living out reduced it. I ended up using a miracle collar which I padded with sheepskin when mine had to be in and that kept my YO happy but of course didn't need to when he was out. I still feel guilty that I never solved his issue, the field had nothing to crib on as was all electric.
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Have to agree with this. I don't like the collars but I knew a horse that without his miracle collar would colic.
 
So what actually is the difference? He came with a nutcracker type collar which I still have but just don't use. It worked and with it on he just eats hay. Without it he wind sucks and eats half the hay.
He doesn't crib or wind suck at feed time which is a new one on me!

*i may have found a place keeping a broodmare company with hedge surroundings ..... Fingers x'd
 
I am a little naive about this topic so went and looked at the collars online-my searching showed me another method, which I really do not like the sound of, and could never imagine myself ever thinking it would be a good idea- cribbing rings. The ones I didn't like the most go through the Insisive bone and are at risk of breaking the whole jaw if it gets caught on anything.
 
I don't like the collars either OP but you may have to decide what is the lesser of two evils - I'd rather have a horse in a collar for a few months and turned out 24/7, than no collar and in 24/7. However, hopefully you have found a solution that will work, fingers crossed for you :)
 
I will support the use of cribbing collars when I see evidence for them reducing the incidence of colic (on the assumption that colic is the greater evil). I don't think there is even good evidence yet that cribbing causes colic. Is there?
 
I until very recently had a cribber. When I first had him YO wanted the collar on him so I got the nutcracker collar which he rubbed on the stable door until he managed to swing it up so it stuck up under his mane. Then I tried the miracle collar, and yes it stopped him from cribbing but only if I did it up really tightly. And then he just used to stand at the back of the stable looking depressed so I sold it in the end.

The only way I solved it was to electrify everything. It never bothered him not being able to crib and he was quite happy i the field and stable but I used to have an old leadrope which I left tied up to a ring outside so when I took him out to groom etc he could still get his fix!

There is no actual evidence that cribbing causes colic although I think those who crib are more likely to get colic, but no evidence that cribbing causes colic. It does damage fences etc though!
 
I actually have two cribbers (both long term, long before I had them)
One (the one that came with the collar and had always worn it) actually seems happier in one, without (as I keep him) in his stable he windsucks constantly and eats little hay. With one on he just eats hay and sleeps with his head over the door.
The other doesn't do it as bad but when I tried the collar on him out of interest he obviously didn't like it and just kept trying anyway.
I think it's sometimes down to what's best for the individual horse? I do seriously consider putting the first horses on again when he's in as he is more chilled and eats far more hay.
 
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