Char0901
Well-Known Member
At what ages do horses go through the 'teething process'?
My boy will be 2 in May and he's started trying to chew everything! Thankfully he knows humans are not to be chewed.
He's started to try and chew his head collar when I put it on, as if I were putting a bit in. He chews his lead rope, the rope that ties his haynet up... Everything! When chewing his lead rope he has learnt how to untie himself... Annoying! He also takes ages to eat a carrot... Well compared to other horses who just wolf them down, but pretty normal for him now.
Just wondering if he could be teething, or picking up a bad habit? If he's teething is there anything I can do to help him?
He's eating his haylage fine, always nearly empty nets (I try and give him enough so he never runs out, and he's not really greedy to gorge on it)
And he hasn't learnt to untie himself through boredom, he does it when I tie him up with his haynet to muck him out, he likes to help so easier this way! A minute or so later he's untied, still stood eating but untied... Almost like he does it because he can! And it's not because I'm rubbish at tying up... I've watched him work it out and do it.
So... Teething or bad habits?
My boy will be 2 in May and he's started trying to chew everything! Thankfully he knows humans are not to be chewed.
He's started to try and chew his head collar when I put it on, as if I were putting a bit in. He chews his lead rope, the rope that ties his haynet up... Everything! When chewing his lead rope he has learnt how to untie himself... Annoying! He also takes ages to eat a carrot... Well compared to other horses who just wolf them down, but pretty normal for him now.
Just wondering if he could be teething, or picking up a bad habit? If he's teething is there anything I can do to help him?
He's eating his haylage fine, always nearly empty nets (I try and give him enough so he never runs out, and he's not really greedy to gorge on it)
And he hasn't learnt to untie himself through boredom, he does it when I tie him up with his haynet to muck him out, he likes to help so easier this way! A minute or so later he's untied, still stood eating but untied... Almost like he does it because he can! And it's not because I'm rubbish at tying up... I've watched him work it out and do it.
So... Teething or bad habits?
