Stable licks - why not to leave them unattended

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My horse is an idiot - it's official. I bought him a new respiratory Horselyx lick yesterday, took the lid off and left him tied outside the stable licking it whilst I groomed him. Whilst I was grooming his back end he suddenly grew very high and I realised he was standing with both front feet in/on it. The he panicked and fell/leapt off it. What a wally. And I was standing right there! Now the plastic box the lick is in is cracked. I certainly shan't leave it there without me again! I keep hoping he'll grow up but I think he's a lost cause...
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I got a mineral lick for my girl and she loved it. Only problem was, there was a lot of molasses in it. She covered her face in a sticky mess and now has a bald nose! She basically waxed herself. no more lick for her! She looks ridiculous
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I got the mobility one and I take out of the pacaging and put it in an old feed bucket, lot easier for them and it is in his stable for when ever he is in there. When he used to live in he had one all of the time
 
Ah that's a good idea. Thing is, I don't think he'd ever stop licking it. I have visions of him growing massive muscles in his tongue...!

I'm going to have to make it safer for him somehow though. Doh, he's such an idiot.
 
Your horse sounds like a charector (sp)
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Can you send me a link to what lick it was please?? Never heard of it and might be interested in the respiratory one
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I put one of those field licks out one summer. The next day as I was walking to the field I saw what looked like blood spread al over the place, my horses had spent the night rolling in the stuff after pulling it out the box it was in, what made it worse was one was skewbald and it stained his white bits orangey/yellow.
 
My husband once phoned me at work in a panic about Jack having a really bloody nose and face - thought he'd been in a fight and had had a bite or kick to the face. Turns out he was stained from his lick. Man is such a drama queen.
 
that respiratory horslix is responsible for me turning up to dressage and finding myself and the saddle covered in brown goo! Hadn't realised that dear darling has coated the inside of the stable door in it before I rested the saddle on it to clean it!!

oh, and my waterproof coat is currently smothered in it.

Daren't take it out of its box, they have problems remembering that lickign does not involve teeth as it is - F would eat it all in 5 mins flat if he had a corner to get hold of!

For some reason the luurrrve that flavour above all else. And for the record, we bought a field sized one for christmas present last year, and it lasted the two of them 3 days. 3 days for £20 worth of lick! They probably should know when to stop, but they just don't!
 
Lol my grey gelding Mattie has had his lick confiscated because he gets in too much of a mess!! He's now started licking his walls instead ..... freak!!
 
yeah Jack bites those large round likit's in two then eats both halves in about 30 secs flat. Doesn't really understand the concept of "lick it". He's now limited to one a fortnight.
 
I got one of the big field licks and my horse pawed at it with his front feet until it all broke up, then he just chewed it like bonfire toffee!!
So I gave up on the big ones and I've just got a little one to let him lick when he loads into the trailer now, but even that ends up streaked everywhere!
How's your loading going? Took mine on his 1st run out at the w/e and he sweated up even though it was only 10 minutes... it's going to be a long slow journey and I don't know if he'll ever travel happily to be honest!
 
Well that was how Ronnie started climbing on it I think! He was pawing at it and obviously realised he could just climb aboard. The little round one got trashed very quickly, and he managed to get his teeth stuck in it and dribbled everywhere!

Hmm your loading sounds like slow progress, but at least it IS progress. I use Ronnie's lick for loading too, but the inside of the trailer is now streaked in brown
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I was away most of last week so wasn't able to do any loading work, but I've been doing it now and then and this Sunday he virtually dragged me up the ramp. I gave him his tea in there, and all was going well until it started to hail, then it got a bit deafening in there and he backed out, so I called it a day at that point. Am hoping to try again tonight as long as it doesn't rain. It's slow work ins't it? Very frustrating as getting my trailer in adn out if it's parking space isn't easy! Hope yours is easier to get to?! When is your next outing planned for? Hope it goes well... xx
 
Oh tell me about it then you have bits of plastic all over the stable. Got one for my box resting horse 2 weeks ago and have been putting it in only when I am there as he has completely trashed the container, then again he does have to do everything with his feet involved!! Why don't they make them from something that doesn't fall to bits and I may add the bits are SHARP!!

Can't put one of those lickit things on the wall as he is not allowed out of the stable and trying to use a drill in the stable means he thinks I am trying to kill him!!
 
Well I can push my trailer in and out of its parking space to practice loading in the yard, and he was fine with this after a while, just mooched in, so gradually started shutting partitions, then ramps until he was happyish with this, but AS SOON as it was hitched up to the car on Sunday he smelled a rat and played up a few times before going in, sodpot!
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As you say it's not easy to find a good time b/w work, weather, darkness etc so might try a slightly further run at the w/e. Went to turn round in a layby on Sunday, and I'd just got out of the car to check him when about 10 scramble bikes came right past my trailer - he hates these at the best of times!! But, he did travel quite well and stayed still and didn't kick the s**t out of the box whenever I stopped like he used to in my old one! (That was a bit of a tip and we reckon he wouldn't load cos he was too ashamed of it!!
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i had the original in the blue tub, five out of five horses refused to touch it.
now my 2 year old is using it, but he just has a little at a time but his breath smells of it in the morning
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They're not silly, are they?! They just know when something is different. Mine is the sort of trailer you have to have hitched up, so at least he's used to that
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Yikes with the bikes - bet they sounded scary to him inside!

Good luck with the further run. I am quietly hoping I might be able to take Ronnie out for a short run this weekend, but I must be careful not to push him too quickly. Must resist temptation
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Hehe maybe we should. My friend has a TB who's more clumsy than mine, so I think that one deserves automatic entry to the club. Mine just has to investigate everything with either hooves or teeth. If he was a toddler he'd have his fingers in the video player
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My boy destroyed his horselyx (in the field) aswell by pawing at it until he flipped it over and then stamped on it until it came loose, then flipped the box back without the lick inside but bare on the ground and stomped on the lick until it was in little pieces which he then ate not licked. I can't give it to him now as it goes too quickly and he doesn't even have shoes on. Seemingly they are not that solid in terms of staying in their box.
 
Guys - be careful with the heavily molassesd licks. I bought my lot a field one a couple of winters ago, and the demolished it within about a week. However our grey mare came out in blisters all over her shoulder and neck which are still v visible as the hair never grew back, and the other mare has a feed intolerance now which she didn't have before the lick.
I would suggest strict rationing if a horse becomes even a little obsessive about it.

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I got my mare ready for hunting her white legs were very white i popped her in the stable and went to get changed (my 1st mistake) got ready went to tack her up so when i went back into the barn she was grinning at me!! a big mollases grin!! (2nd mistake left the lick in the stable!!) opened her door and she had wiped her mouth over both her legs!! cue some mad action with baby wipes and chalk... ill never forget to take it out again!
 
Ditto - I very stupidly left a big pot of lovely sudacream in her stable - she stood on it, completely breaking it, then proceeded to eat it. Her moustache went very white!
 
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