Vetwrap
Well-Known Member
It's a genuine question, not to be inflammatory.
My youngster was on box rest for about 6 weeks over the summer and whilst in started to go through most of the vices - cribbing, weaving, windsucking... We largely prevented him from weaving by making small haylage balls out of small haynets and tying them around his stables to keep him amused. The cribbing and windsucking seemed half hearted, but there was another horse on his block which was a determined windsucker and cribber and would literally swing from his stable door...
This horse has now left the yard and my youngster **seems** to have given up the cribbing/windsucking. Obviously, I am not there all the time, but he doesn't do it when I am around.
Has anyone else seen their horse give up a vice? I always felt as though it was a pretty half hearted attempt at it...
My youngster was on box rest for about 6 weeks over the summer and whilst in started to go through most of the vices - cribbing, weaving, windsucking... We largely prevented him from weaving by making small haylage balls out of small haynets and tying them around his stables to keep him amused. The cribbing and windsucking seemed half hearted, but there was another horse on his block which was a determined windsucker and cribber and would literally swing from his stable door...
This horse has now left the yard and my youngster **seems** to have given up the cribbing/windsucking. Obviously, I am not there all the time, but he doesn't do it when I am around.
Has anyone else seen their horse give up a vice? I always felt as though it was a pretty half hearted attempt at it...