Wood chewing!!

[Magicmadge]

My Shetlands are chewing my post and rail any home made recipies ideas please. One started and the other 2 are copying. They have salt /mineral licks in the paddock which they do use.

 

[eggs]

Best way is to run an electric stand off wire so that they can't get to the fence.

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

My Shetlands are chewing my post and rail any home made recipies ideas please. One started and the other 2 are copying. They have salt /mineral licks in the paddock which they do use.

All I can suggest is, if you have not already done it use creosote as it protects the wood and stops most chewing it. The other thing is run electric fencing about 1 foot in front of it to discourage them.

Some say its because they are lacking in some way - usually its because they have seen another horse doing it.
snap eggs we think alike

 

[Enfys]

Electric wire, and give them a couple of non-toxic logs, or branches to chomp on. Fence wood always seems to taste better with a bit of 'sauce' on it somehow.

I feel your pain, mine are chomping away at the cedar railings.

I am of the opinion that horses chew wood for reasons other than perhaps a lack of minerals, boredom, frustration, and in winter when hay is fed merely to compensate for the actual act of grazing and browsing. Saying that my b*****s have logs, trees and branches but they prefer seasoned cedar apparently

 

[Princess Rosie]

We have electric across all our rails now, stops them nibbling and the destruction of wee bottoms scratching on them also!

 

[Merrymoles]

Many years ago I knew an old stud groom who used lard as a cheap option to stop chewing - probably not good for them but it works!

 

[kobi]

Give them something they can chew which is more appealing than your fence i.e. a log with some nice bark on it. Then slather the fence in cribbox or electrify it.

 

[BuzzyBea]

Mine has only ever chewed when his teeth needed doing. Is that possible?