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My lad is stabled in a lovely, airy barn with 4 other horses and both horses and owners get on very well together. But the horse next door to mine cribs. Incessantly!!!! He hooks his teeth over the top of the door, leans his weight backwards and the creaking noise the poor door makes as it strains against his weight (every 10 seconds or so) is driving me absolutely CRAZY!!!. Of course he doesn't do it when his owner is around so she has no idea how incredibly annoying it is. But for everyone else who has to listen to it, it's complete torture!!

Not sure what I can do about it, but does anyone else have to put up with a stable habit which drives them nuts? (Or have any suggestions how I can deal with it?)
 
A lady at my yard popped a very solid plastic pipe over the door so her boy couldn't crib. It works very well, he can't grip and pull his weight against it. Would she go crazy if you recorded him doing it for proof if she doesn't know he does it? Or just tell her and ask to put her to put some decent pipe over the door?
 
Ahh I hate loud, annoying habits! We have two door kickers in my barn and they drive me mad. I don't mind a bit of pawing or whatever but they sound like they are breaking the door down. Hate it!!!
 
Mine drove people at old yard crazy. He used to reach over his door, grab the tie ring and bang it. Incessantly. A lot easier to deal with than a cribber! I feel your pain, I am very sensitive to noise and it would drive me bananas.
 
We've got two cribbers and three door bangers at the yard where I keep my boy and if find the door bangers are by far the more annoying especially when I get up there early to go to a show and they start banging away when I'm trying my best not to disturb the staff who live there.
 
My horse is a hideous wind sucker, by far the worst I've ever come across (and Ive worked in racing a while now!)
I'm also very easily irritated by repetitiveness. At first it drove me nuts but I've become used to it. I've never kept him at livery as I've been turned away from every yard I tried- I've always been honest when visiting potential yards as I don't want hassle!
You could try and mention it to the owner but she may not want to try and stop him, I'd never try and prevent mine as he'd become stressy and unhappy.
 
This, cribbing is this horse's way of dealing with stess. If I were his owner I'd want to turn him out more, if I could. Poor horse, I fear if you stop him cribbing eg by opening the door and putting a chain across, he'll just find some other way of dealing with the stress which may be more annoying.
poiuytrewq said:
My horse is a hideous wind sucker, by far the worst I've ever come across (and Ive worked in racing a while now!)
I'm also very easily irritated by repetitiveness. At first it drove me nuts but I've become used to it. I've never kept him at livery as I've been turned away from every yard I tried- I've always been honest when visiting potential yards as I don't want hassle!
You could try and mention it to the owner but she may not want to try and stop him, I'd never try and prevent mine as he'd become stressy and unhappy.
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Surely this is a matter to be dealt with by YO and horse-owner?


As for stopping a cribber, no I wouldn't want to physically prevent the horse, either but I would certainly want to find more appropriate de-stressing strategies.
 
Yes! The horse next to mine puts his face on the outside of the door and yanks it backwards so you have the whole stables shaking and the door clicking and he often continually does it (also not when owner is around! ) and it's just constant and very annoying especially when you have a headache!
 
Some interesting points here. I wouldn't want to try and stop him cribbing ... he's not my horse and his (very nice) owner is aware he does it and always has, but has made no attempt to get to the bottom of why he does it or try to stop him. Today I found a simple strategy to reduce my stress levels a bit ... I hung a large towel over his door while I was around in the barn. It stopped him getting a proper purchase on the door and he stopped trying after a few minutes and just stood quite happily and calmly. Removed towel when I left and let him get on with it. At least I wasn't reduced to a gibbering wreck by the repeated creaking/grunting coming from next door.
 
If the horse were mine, I would be very annoyed about having a towel, or anything else put across his door but actually it sounds from the description as if he is stressed because of a lack of forage. He needs either ad-lib forage or access to grazing.
 
Pearlsasinger said:
If the horse were mine, I would be very annoyed about having a towel, or anything else put across his door but actually it sounds from the description as if he is stressed because of a lack of forage. He needs either ad-lib forage or access to grazing.
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I agree, but mentioned it to his owner today and she was OK with it. She's pretty laid back about his bad habit, but he has had a period of box rest for a lameness issue, which may have made it worse. Hopefully he can go out again soon, which ought to help.
 
I have a cribber next door and am also quite noise sensitive OP, all on the yard also have a chain so when anyone is on the yard his door is opened. He actually almost seems to physically relax when the door has gone oddly.
 
I would too fine it annoying.

Really the owner should thake note as her horse is trying to say something and is obviously dressed or I'll etc.

Maybe the yard owner should step in and insist something is done?
Does horse need more forage? Turnout?
Has he got ulcers?
 
It's not always fixable though, my neighbour spend 8 odd years in training and will stop to do it mid feed.
 
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