Help new horse is eating her stable!!!

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I've had my new horse for just over a week now and this morning I went in to find she pretty much eaten / chewed the entire sides of her stable door. I've not seen her do this before and don't believe she did it in another home. Please help? If she'd does it any more the roof might come in on her.
 
She's been out in the day and in at night as normal and that's how it was in her previous home. I was thinking if she a cribber surely she would of done it within the weekend I've had her
 
You must cover all wood edges with cribox or similar .
Give the horse a really good quality vit / min supplement .
Are you sure you saw the horse in its own stable I think I got caught out by this .
I am assuming she has add lib forage and she's eating lots if not change the forage and see if that helps.
You can get the frames covered with thin metal strips you might have to replace the wood first.
I would be tempted to turn her out all night and creocote the whole stable .and leave it a few days before letting her in it again.
Try to find out what she was eating in her previous home and see if you can learn anything from that.
 
Liquid Crib Stop with a good addition of tabasco sauce. If that fails, buy a Scotch Bonnet chilli. don rubber gloves, cut it and smear over bitten areas.

Usually works.

Paddy
 
You need to try to workout is diet , stress or boredom causing it as that affects the way to stop it.
Oh and try putting a turf of grass in the stable with her sometimes that helps .
 
I think it's stress as she came from a busy yard and I just have her and a Shetland so it's quiet I've had problems riding her so new saddle coming Tomoz and back lady coming sat. I've put her on a calmer and she's got a salt lick in her stable. I know it's all new to her but I'm beginner to feel like I made a bad decision and should of sick to a trusty cob
 
probably the stress of moving yards. lots of fibre and a balanced diet. a busy to a quiet yard, you would think they would settle. maybe stress of moving away from familiarity and their friends
 
My two home-bred four year old Shire geldings have been wood chewers since they were 6 weeks old. Neither of their mothers has ever chewed wood, so I don't know from where it comes. They have always had ad lib hay, or, in summer, plentiful grass. I actually caught one of the boys eating the bark of an oak tree this past year. We had to put hurdles around the tree to protect it. When we got their field shelters, we had galvanised steel strips made to protect the outside corners, and the doorway and window frames of the sheds, which has worked a treat. In winter, they are housed, together, in a vast pole barn. We've had to apply 2 inch wide steel strips or angle irons, to any corners, sills, ledges, gate rails, just to prevent the structure from complete decimation. One of the boys will eat real creosote when it's dry. He also likes to indulge in Tabasco sauce! We've found that the steel strips have been the most successful and economical. Our tractor supply shop keeps the steel strips in stock (until we completely deplete it) at very reasonable prices (they do come in narrower and bit wider widths). We affix them raw, just to get them up, and paint them later, if at all. Our paddock fencing is pressure creosoted with a 25 year warranty, and, remarkably, they don't touch it.

Did the mare leave a best friend? Does she have a new buddy at your place? If so, can they see each other when they are stabled?
 
Make sure she has enough forage, if there's some left in the morning that's good.
Paint all wood with washing up liquid, cheap, but spookily effective!
 
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