Sanolly
Well-Known Member
My new horse (OTTB) is a crib biter/wind sucker. In the space of a week she has eaten through two or the rails of the field and almost eaten through four more! I am replacing them today but understandably YO is not at all impressed and if I don't stop her soon then I will be asked to leave. I really need to nip this in the bud as she didn't do it when she first arrived or when she was at her old yard (where I work), I don't want to have to leave my yard!
Brief history of the horse is that she came out of training in Jan, then went to Wales to a girl who couldn't cope with her so came back to the breeder who I work for where I bought her. She came to my yard nearly two weeks ago and was turned out in our "trash" paddock which has post and rail on three sides which she didn't touch. She was turned out with a small Sec B and then when she left she was turned out with my cob. Yo's horse is a bully so we waited until her shoes came off last Weds until we turned them out together in the big field where the cribbing/wind sucking started. The trash has no grass so she was only on haylage and hard feed - 1 x nuts, 1 x chaff, 1 x fast fibre and a mug of lo cal - twice a day, the big field is bare at the top and has short (but enough) grass in the bottom. However they all come in for a couple hours during the day for hard feed and a hay net.
Please help!
Brief history of the horse is that she came out of training in Jan, then went to Wales to a girl who couldn't cope with her so came back to the breeder who I work for where I bought her. She came to my yard nearly two weeks ago and was turned out in our "trash" paddock which has post and rail on three sides which she didn't touch. She was turned out with a small Sec B and then when she left she was turned out with my cob. Yo's horse is a bully so we waited until her shoes came off last Weds until we turned them out together in the big field where the cribbing/wind sucking started. The trash has no grass so she was only on haylage and hard feed - 1 x nuts, 1 x chaff, 1 x fast fibre and a mug of lo cal - twice a day, the big field is bare at the top and has short (but enough) grass in the bottom. However they all come in for a couple hours during the day for hard feed and a hay net.
Please help!
you are doing the right thing by giving her lots of fibre - I would guess she has a degree of ulcers/EGS - I would give her some Rescue Remedy (put about 10 drops on half an apple/carrot a few times a day) and add some aloe Vera juice to her feed - look on 
) but is so much better now she is settled with lots of turnout and plenty of fibre etc
