Horse Cribbing

What Are The Dietary Needs Of A Cribbing Horse?

There’s a well known saying for humans: “we are what we eat”. Well, we can safely say that such adage may also apply to horses.
The proper nutrition, coupled with the right conditioning for the discipline, results in a healthy horse for the stable owner. But if there’s something lacking in the diet, then a horse [...]

How do you prevent horses from cribbing?

Cribbing and wind sucking are bad habits and should be discouraged. Cribbing can result in excessive wear of the incisor teeth. Both wind sucking and cribbing can result in overdevelopment or enlargement of the neck muscles and poor performance.
To make matters worse, a cribbing horse can do considerable damage to a barn or stall. You [...]

Are cribbing horses ruined for life?

Cribbing can be detrimental in many ways to the horse as well as to the horse stable owner and these are:

There are the potential health risks of weight loss, dental problems, and colic of your horse.
There is the risk of poor performance from decreased energy [...]

Why Do Horses Pass Out From Cribbing?

Some horse stable owners use cribbing collars to discourage their horses from cribbing. A cribbing collar is a broad strap that is placed around your horse’s neck to deter him from flexing his neck muscles whenever he tries to suck in air. The collar essentially restrains the muscles of the horse’s neck that are essential [...]

Is there Endorphin release from horse cribbing?

It is believed that during cribbing, endorphins are released in the horse’s system. Endorphin in Latin means “inner morphine”. Endorphins, like morphine, act as a drug on the brain creating a sense of well being or “high”. This would explain the incredible drive a horse has to perform the behavior once he has experienced it. [...]

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