Matey Feathers
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How can I stop my cob from kicking stable door at feed times as I’m not there and yard owner feeds and says he’s aggressively kicking door. Thanks
Door kicker
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Ratface
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Offer to pay for rubber matting to be put up on the inside of the stable door?
Matey Feathers
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I have rubber mat on door but he kicks so hard and violently, I’m worried as it can damaged his joints thanks for the reply
Melody Grey
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Trugs of water pulled up against the door so he gets a good splash!
tda
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You can hire something that gives them a small squirt of water when they kick, a friend has one, can't remember the name of it
Quitkick?
Quitkick?
Matey Feathers
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Have been looking at these they’re quite expensive, didn’t know you could hire them. Thanks
Mary3050
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Quick kick is amazing wish I had brought one years ago .
Matey Feathers
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Can they get used to spray after time
MereChristmas
riding reluctantly into the sunset
Thos works but you have to make sure there aren’t gaps between the trugs.
Kaylum
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Put a tie across instead of a door at feeding times. Nothing to kick.
ILuvCowparsely
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ILuvCowparsely
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mine just hear the noise and shoot back, not got used to it yet, and mare virtually has stopped and she was a bad kicker
spacefaer
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Chain across the door - nothing to kick
jhoward
Demon exorcist...
A bloke I worked for once had a colt that kicked bad...he ran some electric fence along the inside front of the stable. Cured the colt in one night.
poiuytrewq
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Such an irritating habit, we used to attach a carpet to the inside of the door and pad it out with straw to deaden the noise cheaply.
I think if I owner a proper door kicker though I’d go all out and buy a quit kick.
I think if I owner a proper door kicker though I’d go all out and buy a quit kick.
Roasted Chestnuts
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Take the door out of the equation. Put up a stall chain or rail and open the door. Then feed everything. No door means no door kicking. I open the door if my youngsters stable as soon as I get there, he’s never kicked the door but I don’t want him starting as there are plenty in the yard that do it.
luckyoldme
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I watched a family unknowingly train a horse to do this.
At my first livery there was a Highland pony who kicked the door. His owners gave him carrots every time he did it to shut him up.
My Percheron X used to lean on the door . She was a big lass and was a typical Percheron in that she preferred to go through things than round things.
I was told to try a water pistol and just to be sure I got myself a double barrelled pump action water gun and dedicated an afternoon to trying to solve the issue.
It did the trick.
At my first livery there was a Highland pony who kicked the door. His owners gave him carrots every time he did it to shut him up.
My Percheron X used to lean on the door . She was a big lass and was a typical Percheron in that she preferred to go through things than round things.
I was told to try a water pistol and just to be sure I got myself a double barrelled pump action water gun and dedicated an afternoon to trying to solve the issue.
It did the trick.
ILuvCowparsely
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makes no difference horse can still kick the door
ILuvCowparsely
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- Did not work with my gelding.
- I had a chain across the door and he lent so hard on chain he could reach the door.
- I moved on end of the stall chain along so diagonally further away but still did it shorter end
- I put electric fence across and I saw him on CCTV lift his front leg and come down flat on the tape and got it down
- I put slip rails on and he got (and still does when door open and slip rails on) his leg between the bars or with his knee and bangs the door
- I put 3 slip rails on (a pain to go in stable ) but then he started kicking the slip rail support
- I put hobbles on him (that worked for a long time)
- Then I got Quit kick BINGO !! It worked
Roasted Chestnuts
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i don’t think you read my post correctly. How can a pony kick a door that’s OPEN? Go Go gadget legs ????
ILuvCowparsely
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If he has slip rails on like my stable so, they kick the slip rails when the door is open, that is what the slip rails are for, you can have the door open and the slip rails across.
I did read it - you said he kicks the door at feed time. I said Quit Kick or slip rail - or a chain attached slightly back from the door so he cannot reach it
I have already explained what i did
! I had a chain across is door and he lashed out in front and got the door
2. he kicked the door between the clip rails
The only thing that worked is the chain and the Quit Kick
Callieann
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I have a mare that used to strike out badly at feeding time. It sounded like the stable door was being demolished. Solved it in a few days. I figured out that if she kicked out and then got feed as a reward she would do it all the more. So, when she started kicking, I walked away. When she stopped kicking I walked back to stable. Rinse and repeat. Every time I got to stable without any kicking she got reward (food). First time took about an hour and a half. By the 5 th day I could walk right up to stable with no kicking. It was worth every minute as I no longer have the problem
Merrymoles
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We put two large water buckets in front of my friend's horse's door at night and it definitely stops him. I move them in the morning before I feed and he bangs then but at least he's not waking the YO's little boy up. We had to do it at night as he gets a late feed (no teeth) and would bang for that.
Roasted Chestnuts
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I have never had slip rails that low. All of My rails have been chest height. The same height as my stall chain. So again how can they kick those or the door when it’s open.
My point was take the door out of the equation, if they break a chain then a slip rail and the door open. Here is my constant set up for my three year old Welsh D. Door is open from the moment I or my friend turns up and is closed when we leave. My rails are kept at chest height for the same purpose but aren’t as breakable.
ILuvCowparsely
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We have two slip rails, door kickers here have to have their bottom rails on if they door kick.
EnduroRider
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I appreciate it will not solve your problem now, but once fixed, or for those that do not have a door kicker... be the mean person like myself that doesn't have your horses fed with everyone else! I am the only person that feeds my horses, they have never been fed when everything else on the yard is and as such they don't expect it nor bang. Of course this is only an option if you are DIY.
Auslander
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Unless you are my resident door kicker, who kicks the doorframe instead!
Shilasdair
Patting her thylacine
Horses really are smarter than humans.
PeterNatt
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I hav Industrial Grade Coconut matting fixed to the inside of the stable doors with angled metal strips to prevent it coming away from the sides of the door. They don't like kicking it and it deadens the sound if they do kick it.
sportsmansB
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Mine kicks the door and he just has a stall guard across it instead attached to 2 pieces of string, the door is never closed
He sort of paws at the air but sure that does no harm
He has no notion of trying to go anywhere so his isn't even closed at night time, but that would be an option. I'm not sure how a horse with just a chain or a stall guard COULD still kick the door if the door is open, that is confusing, but irrelevant really, you just open the door completely...
He sort of paws at the air but sure that does no harm
He has no notion of trying to go anywhere so his isn't even closed at night time, but that would be an option. I'm not sure how a horse with just a chain or a stall guard COULD still kick the door if the door is open, that is confusing, but irrelevant really, you just open the door completely...