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• Yes: 59.59% (997)
  
• No: 40.41% (676)

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• Horses that are bored are likely to develop bad habits.
  
• Using a Barclay’s collar. Fantastic
  
• I reduced sugar intake & stopped feeding sweet feed
  
• In the winter, this winter, I fed same supplements, as during summer competition, they didn’t chew wood
  
• One word “McNasty” worked like a charm for us.
  
• Bitterlicks
  
• Mix cayenne with molasses and smear on wood
  
• Pasture living; lots of exercise. Both reduce the boredom/anxiety that bring on this so-called vice.
  
• Have no
  
• They never get a chance–I wont have them around!
  
• Termites aren’t they
  
• Electric wire on the boards keep them away from the fence
  
• Keeping active minds with training and plenty of room to roam.
  
• Hay!
  
• I leave a bale of straw out in the pasture to chew on, seems to help
  
• Trees – bored yearlings need to get in bigger pasture!
  
• Pepper spray on the things they are chewing the saliva reactivates the spray leaving a nasty taste
  
• My horse loves her feed bucket. I remove it to prevent having to buy another one!
  
• Only when bored
  
• Collar
  
• My quarter horse only nibbles, and if I fuss at him he stops immediately
  
• Put fresh Sears white paint on the fence. This has worked for me for years. Wherever I see them s
  
• REPLACE AS MUCH WOOD WITH METAL AS POSSIBLE
  
• I have one TB that does this when he’s bored
  
• A device called the TINGLER available in Ireland that prevents this in gentlest manner
  
• Boredom is the main cause. Give them something to do
  
• Maximum turnout is the best prevention/cure.
  
• Electric
  
• Treat them for ulcers
  
• Free choice decent quality hay
  
• Hot wire and nothing at cribbing height
  
• Pipe fencing- metal edges on barn doors. Chew stop painted on wood panels
  
• I have had many, many horses over the course of 40 yrs and never had one that chewed on anything. We
  
• All I can say is linseed oil that slows ’em down!!
  
• on trees only
  
• provide ample ‘chewing time’ grazing/hay/plenty of pasture per horse.
  
• We feed a free choice mineral and turn them out in the pasture often
  
• feed hay 3 to 4 times a day
  
• free choice hay
  
• My barn was built to deter chewing; turned out a lot so not bored
  
• spend more time entertaining them
  
• provide mineral/salt blocks, exercise
  
• They chew on trees, but Halt Cribbing helps if applied 1 or 2 times a year.
  
• spray everything with McNasty, it works!
  
• Yippee! Of course this comes with 24-7 turnout!
  
• He used to, when he was stalled all the time. I am convinced he chewed out of boredom.
  
• only way to prevent is steel piping fence and box metal in the stalls.
  
• barbed wire
  
• Only one. Supplemented, but no help.
  
• Horse do naughty things when they don’t have enough to do–turn them out!
  
• Since I started adding MICRO-MINERALS I’ve had no problem.
  
• I have tried, French cribbing collar, miracle collar, chew stop, paint and sprays, nothing works
  
• we use metal almost everywhere, and wood is coated in tar basised stop chew
  
• mix cayenne paper with vegetable oil and paint on fences
  
• Pastes of pepper and peanut butter/sticky edibles on corners/edges discourages chewing. Dogs too!
  
• free choice grass hay, company, and activity
  
• build metal piping stalls
  
• rub a bar of Irish Spring body soap on fence areas and horses will stay clear…it really works!
  
• Pipe corrals
  
• less stall time – more paddock time
  
• But only where the garlic catches on the stall. They love it and mostly lick it and then bite the wood
  
• pipe fences and concrete stalls
  
• we use “no chew” spray
  
• no sorry
  
• I have tried every product on the market and some that were home made.
  
• keep them enough salt
  
• Electric wire on pasture fences
  
• tried everything, had to put fence over all accessible wood.
  
• feed them more hay, they are hungry. My horse given adequate hay has never chewed
  
• Have tried everything and given up. Replace wood.
  
• I have 16 horses about 3 are wood chewing.
  
• A couple of trees were stripped last year, but nothing else – we have pipe fencing
  
• Trees! They are beavers, and this started only with the hay shortage as we cannot feed free choice.
  
• I provide plenty of hay at all times to satisfy their need to chew
  
• out on 35 acres of pasture 24/7
  
• A horse that is content and happy doesn’t need to entertain himself or find food.
  
• feed more hay
  
• Paint/ spray a special bad tasting paint onto everything- they hate the taste so are discouraged!
  
• Feeding Quitt has been a true solution.
  
• Put metal over boards
  
• Wrapping non-climb fencing around trees saved them. I screwed 1 1/2 inch angle iron to every corner
  
• our weanlings chew on an old board fence
  
• They chew when they are bored
  
• Absolutely recommend hotwire on board fence, which prevents chewing as well as challenging the fence
  
• big pasture to forage/roam
  
• Lessen time in stalls; provide interesting activities, toys; pasture time
  
• I have tried every thing except the cribbing collar or a muzzle to keep my standardbred from chewing
  
• Chew stop painted many places; some horses better when on pasture
  
• plenty of hay, loose mineral/salt always available. Dewormed regularly, teeth work done yearly.
  
• Metal corner strips on everything possible.
  
• Ivory dish soap and cayenne pepper
  
• Irish Spring soap rubbed on the wood.
  
• Keeping a horse from getting bored and feeding minerals and carrots, as a tasty treat!
  
• Keep them from being bored or stressed. Your vet can rule out any medical problems with an exam.
  
• keep them turned out
  
• Electric wire along the area chewed helps at my farm.
  
• Chew stop spray
  
• Keep plenty of hay in front of them and keep them busy.
  
• out of boredom in the long winter months
  
• Not any more. We changed fencing to a metal fencing , no more chewing.
  
• plastic drywall corners secured to wood
  
• Barn and fence is galvanized steel, common in Arizona
  
• I put plastic garden containers over the fence posts – that is working.
  
• Quitt and lots of hay in the stall
  
• never had that problem
  
• Our two mares chew the bark off the trees.
  
• horses tend to chew wood and eat dirt when they are missing minerals, offer a loose salt/mineral sup
  
• use paint on products on market
  
• 1 out of 6 chews. Turn out more. use metal flashing on doors and elect. wire.
  
• cover all wood edges with mesh or corner beading
  
• Occasionally a nibble on the barn door – I think it is when they want in for grain
  
• My Mare chews the fence only when she is annoyed she has taught my gelding to do too sharing is fun
  
• use a mixture of different hot sauces then heat them up before you apply it.
  
• used motor oil
  
• Every time I see Casper chewing on something I do not go and get a treat 4 him at the end of the day.
  
• Only when they are in more than they are used to. Otherwise no.
  
• miracle collar works!
  
• bitter spray
  
• As much paddock time as possible!
  
• but they do lean on the non-barbed wire portions of my fence and mess it up.
  
• The horses live in a herd situation, are out 24/7 on a variety of surfaces and they have many obstacles
  
• I put branches in the pens for them to chew on and they leave the fences alone, electric fences help
  
• Keep them busy, engaged, and entertained.
  
• I try to keep them close together so they can talk to each other
  
• not too bad though
  
• We ran electric line and use a solar charger . We solved it that way and have no more issues
  
• Only when not ridden for a few days
  
• providing mineral blocks
  
• It helps to cut poplar limbs & place them in the paddocks, this keeps them off the barn & fence.
  
• I paint the wood with Pine Sol – works well than anything I have tried
  
• Apply a non-chewing product on fences.
  
• only when stalled for long periods
  
• placing PVC piping on top rail made them stop
  
• Use Quit by Farnam!
  
• preventing boredom is the best way to curb chewing
  
• We paint all wood with Chew Halt. It works great.
  
• Lots of turn out, constant access to hay and test for ulcers
  
• Add apple cider vinegar to feed
  
• give them likit treats and toys
  
• All surfaces must be flat and hard to grip. Use electric fencing in the field on rails
  
• they have plenty of turnout time with other horses
  
• Turnout 24/7.
  
• used motor oil & black pepper painted over the chewed area.
  
• Hay plus pasyure to keep them busy
  
• cheep dish liquid soap
  
• I try to keep them outdoors as much as possible, but when it’s wet, they’re in. Just bored!
  
• My 2 horses do not chew on their stalls
  
• Let them have all the first cutting hay that they want.
  
• Irish spring soap does well until the next rain
  
• Snug fit Miracle Collar
  
• It’s best to get a cribbing collar for your horse if he cribs
  
• PCV pipe on all top edges… my biggest beavers don’t like it
  
• one 4yr old filly started chewing her stall. no others in the heard chew
  
• They practically ate the barn down when it was new, they don’t chew much anymore
  
• boredom toys, my horses love them!!!
  
• they all chew the trees!!
  
• chicken wire around trees
  
• paint with creosote
  
• Just like a termite
  
• My donkeys are beavers in disguise.
  
• cribbing collar-nutcracker type
  
• give them a toy to play with
  
• dish soap painted on surface
  
• cayenne, red Chile flakes and habanera sauce, mix thick like a paste and spread on wood
  
• I try to keep them in pasture as much as possible
  
• cayenne pepper paste and electric fencing wire
  
• We have put up horse mesh fence & wrapped it around the top board to prevent chewing
  
• slather Halt Cribbing on everything chewable
  
• Leon doesn’t usually crib, just a little in the pasture when his buddies are.
  
• Feed enough forage /fiber and they will not chew
  
• Lots of good hay in winter and toys in the field
  
• She has maximum time outside to keep her mentally healthy.
  
• Cribbing Strip
  
• No, but only because we have worked hard to make them unpalatable
  
• I painted mine and it detoured him for a while
  
• Metal instead of wood
  
• Miss Lillie is 3/4 TB and 1/4 beaver-got thru 12 x2 overnite once
  
• proper feeding-free choice quality hay, alfalfa pellets, high fiber, low starch diets,plenty of t/o
  
• feed more haythey are at liberty to walk in and out of their stable when they want to
  trees!
  
• Not w whole lot, but sometimes, probably if bored
  
• Bitter Apple spray
  
• split her food portions into 4 feedings/day instead of 2
  
• my horses chew each others blankets in the winter. I use bitter apple reappling after rain
  
• he bites the pipe corrals
  
• Weavers Cribbing Collar works the best, but you have to remove it regularly so they don’t get sores
  
• extra hay and turn out time
  
• Electric fencing and horses are kept occupied by being out side as long as up to 16hrs in summer.
  
• Recently replaced boards, painted, and added a hot wire. No chewing yet.
  
• Hay, free choice, or in one (or two) of those nylon haynets from Dover that have tiny openings.
  
• nope, lucky me
  
• Lucky us! No cribbers!!!
  
• In stalls only if not allowed turn out – electric pasture fence keeps them off
  
• Not until a visiting horse showed them. Chew stop works, but is ugly, clear does not work!
  
• Dycosote. It’s USDA approved, non-carcinogenic and will work on most chewers!
  
• They are too busy eating grass
  
• yes, yes, yes, help – help – what can I do to stop this habit
  
• mine have plenty of room and never spend time in a stallOne chews, not cribs, after she is given a treat. Others chew in winter a bit
  
• paint boards with a mixture of hot chilli peppers
  
• 4 years ago I started adding Nutrena Rocky Mountain Minerals they are happy and content.
  
• electricfences stop chewing, plenty of grass & hay gives their mouths stuff to do, no barns for us.
  
• Make sure they have plenty of turnout time so they’re happy & have interesting things to do.
  
• Chew Stop (the natural cinnamon kind) works great for a low level offender 🙂
  
• Only rarely
  
• I have one wind sucker off the track– terrible habit and was not disclosed to me when I purchased.
  
• Absolutely!!! And not just when confined. I think a couple of them are part beaver!
  
• If they start I apply Crisco and then tabasco which they hate and quit the habit quickly
  
• I have polyurethan fences.
  
• Turn him out with a friend
  
• My filly likes the trees more.
  
• Give them a block of wood
  
• The product, Halt Cribbing, is the only thing that stops mine from wood-chewing.
  
• HAVEN’T YET FOUND ANYTHING TO DETOUR CRIBBING
  
• Only one chews. Two lick. The rest are fine. No suggestions have made a difference.
  
• No, but 2 horses in the barn do. 1 with collar does well, 1 without cribs and chews constantly
  
• In 45 yrs I never had a wood chew or a weaver. Horses get all day turnout.
  
• Doesn’t do it on pipe corral stall walls, but will play with wooden wheelbarrow handles or stalls.
  
• No, because they are turned out 24/7 in big pastures
  
• 24 hour access to turnout except in extreme weather.
  
• this year it has been horable, not sure why they are chewing. they never have in the past
  
• Quitt helps a little
  
• 1 part palmolive dish soap, 2 parts water, 1/4 part very hot pepper powder
  
• Bored horses need something to do. If they lack room to roam or companions to play with, they become
  
• Letting her out and keeping her in regular exercise normally stops the chewing.
  
• Only if stalled up
  
• no matter how much pasture, they always seem to prefer to eat the barn … aluminum caps where feas
  
• 3 cribbers and all others chew wood no solution found
  
• QUITT worked for awhile, but is no longer effective.
  
• they are well fed, but boredom makes them behave like beavers
  
• Horses crib because of stomach pains. They can’t belch-this is what they do. Change feed.
  
• cover stall surfaces with metal, electric fencing outside
  
• Your horse does this because he is bored, so buy him a toy or put an item over his mouth to prevent
  
• I use Oak wood in my barn and as rails for my fencing. Jolly Balls are good for boredom.
  
• Thank goodness we’ve never had a problem
  
• used motor oil–make sure there is no antifreeze accidentally mixed in and paint it on th wood.
  
• youngster just started doing it, I’m hoping it’s teething I use treated wood wher possible and coat
  
• horses in open field with lean to shed for shelter and are happy healthy horses
  
• They do chew branches and treew some especially in the early spring.
  
• If it’s made of wood, any wood, they eat it.
  
• Only one does & only at feeding time. He does it in his stall waiting for his grain.
  
• I miss creosote which was cheap and worked well to discourage chewing
  
• Don’t let them get bored!!
  
• Correction with a rub on the nose worked for me.
  
• Our horses are in run in stables, so don’t need to get bored. There are also lots of trees around.
  
• NO … but she’s only 4 …
  
• Bitter apple keeps him off.
  
• extreme chewing wood, metal, 24 hr t/o, hay 3-5 x day
  
• muzzle while in the stall and hotwire top of boards
  
• turn them out sometimes. Often they only do these things because they’re bored
  
• My horse cribs or windsucks. I even find him eating bark when hes bored!
  
• My horse are out most of the day to prevent boredom
  
• When left alone to long,bored and weather stress
  
• Physical barrier – heavy wire hog or Del Mar panels over vulnerable spots in pens.
  
• He chews his door even when he’s outside as we never shut them in. Maybe just teething.
  
• He chews his door even when he’s outside as we never shut them in. Maybe just teething.
  
• Use metal building and fencing materials.
  
• Concrete Barn w/metal stall doors/bars-they chew buckets instead 🙂
  
• Pasture turnout and carboleneum paint on the paddock fences
  
• Lots of turnout, adequate roughage in feed, play toys if stalled; youngsters will always chew!
  
• I leave branches, tree trunks etc for additional forage.
  
• never bored and not lacking the minerals that they sometimes search for
  
• lots of turnout as well as hay in front of them at least 70 to 80% of the time.
  
• Anything wooden, even with QuittWindsucking collars, chilli paste spread on fences
  
• and trees., too!!
  
• Make sure that they have free choice to grass hay, free choice vitamins and minerals
  
• unless its excessive i don’t worry about it.
  
• keep them busy eating hay and grass. Some still seem to need to put everything within reach in their
  
• Only a few on their stalls
  
• cayenne mixed with hot sauce, painted on wood!
  
• When board
  
• Modern horses are a GMO….too much beaver DNA has been spliced in!!!
  
• I’ll take any info I can get because nothing works
  
• Paint the wood with hot sauce and baby oil
  
• 1 mule doesn’t. the other is a termite and nothing dissuades her.
  
• So far, I have only a licker in my four. He does this after eating his oat mix.
  
• hot wire on fences, metal capping on stalls, play things to lessen boredom, free hay for munchers
  
• original scent Ben Gay rubbed into wood is a great preventative.
  
• high quality feed and hay at all times with 12-14 hours of turnout avoid this habit
  
• shock collar
  
• Increase turnout time in a pasture with grass
  
• Some do. I cover it with steel angle iron when I can. Keeping cribbers in the pasture helps too.
  
• 24 x 7 pasture turn out.
  
• Digestive enzymes have helped
  
• They keep busy with lots of hay.
  
• red pepper and oil soak my wood, don’t rub your eyes after touching my fences….!!!!!
  
• if your horse chews on wood he may need more fiber in his diet,
  
• ciyane pepper mixed w/Vaseline
  
• I have a Castle Brook Barn and none of our horses chew on it as there is nothing for them to chew.
  
• I paint all my wooden fences with sump oil that stop’s them.
  
• most is metak stall walls are the only wood
  
• The one cribber I have improved markedly when I put him on UlcerGard for a month.
  
• electric wire around top
  
• Keep them fed properly and busy.
  
• Keep them outside 24/7 with access to shelter.
  
• Eliminate all wood and make sure your horse gets a lot of work so boredom is minimal.
  
• brush motor oil on the wood
  
• i HAVE BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL WITH CHEWING BY COVERING THE EDGE OF BOARDS WITH GYP ROCK CORNER BEADING
  
• vinyl fencing! I love it.
  
• He stays outside 24 x 7, electric fencing, lots of hay, a friend to play with :o)
  
• Sump Oil
  
• Also trees. Avoid treated timber in construction as poisonous to horses.
  
• Provide a non-poisonus tree limb in the pasture for them to chew on, poplar works well.
  
• she used to chew constantly before I pput her on 24/7 turnout.
  
• But the chew the heck out of trees.
  
• use “Quit”
  
• An electric wire on the top of the board/pole
  
• use pipe fences. also the product Quitt seems to help.
  
• a confined stallion chews; the others do not.
  
• move horse to stall with metal rails
  
• hay available 24/7
  
• i put corrogated drain pipe split down one side and stretch over the sides of my water trough
  
• Rub fences with soap
  
• make sure they have mineral salt and use a grazing muzzle on the “beaver”
  
• Aluminum angle on corners and edges!
  
• I have tried sprays, toys…I think my horse is part beaver!!
  
• no, they get tournout 24-7 yearround there never that bored
  
• my stable won’t feed enough hay, I am leaving.
  
• we put sheetrock corner beading on all the edges of the wood, it’s metal!
  
• They’re beavers regardless of stall toys, lots of turnout in big padocks, free choice hay when in.
  
• I use Moorman’s Grostrong mineral.
  
• if your horse chews he is probobly mineral deficient
  
• I have smeared softened Irish Spring soap on favorite chewing areas.
  
• Plenty of turn-out time!!!
  
• Occasionally on the barn (wood). I spray it with a stop chew product and they will stop for awhile
  
• Foal teething
  
• All fences have hot wire across the top and all corners in the stalls have aluminum channel attached
  
• hot wire and electric fencing
  
• and trees, saddles, bridles, basicaly anything he can get his mouth on
  
• give them lots of turnout & a hay based diet
  
• Colorless crib halt applied to wood works well
  
• NO!
  
• one is a cribber but I have one that exhibits pica as well if he is left in the stall too much
  
• Electric Fence,( run it around top of all wood fences.)
  
• they have plenty to keep them busy
  
• paint everything with mcnasty!
  
• broke them of it with homemade cayenne pepper sol.
  
• I use mix hot cheyene pepper with chew stop or oil.
  
• feed them often and give them plenty of pasture time so they don’t get bored
  
• so far, no Sprays or paint ons have worked… neither does mineral/vitamin supplementing
  
• only the babies
  
• My mare doesn’t, but there are plenty of horses at our barn that do.
  
• Put PVC pipe around wood,stops it.
  
• Have wooden planks in 2 spots on the fence line. Only thing they are chewing on though,
  
• tobasco sauce works too, unless they like it
  
• they chew on the stall boards
  
• NOTHING WORKED with my mare, except for the ‘Quitt’ supplement.
  
• on pasture 24 -7
  
• turnout, turnout, turnout
  
• i have used hot sauce on the tops of stall boards with success.
  
• creosote treated lumber
  
• One did, out of anxiety I think, when we first got him, but he stopped when he got acclimated
  
• a boarded horse!!
  
• I’ve started calling my new colt a beaver, as he chews on everything from round pens to trees! ahhh
  
• lots of hay!
  
• Hot pepper sauce mixed with cooking oil and sprayed onto wood surfaces!
  
• 24×24 pipe stall and horse that gets regular exercise
  
• Rap Last or No Chew & if that d/n work; metal covers over exposed wood.
  
• covering barn joists and stall edges with rubber flooring or carpet
  
• I have a metal Barnmaster barn and Electrobraid on the top rail of my wood fence.
  
• The only wood they chew on are the mesquite trees. Why??????
  
• All the TIME!
  
• The best deterent was Creosote.
  
• Wood and other areas are covered with a heavy diamond wire mesh. Outside fences with electric fence.
  
• I only stall in severe weather, use Chewstop or other inhibitors
  
• keep them occupied and happy with enough hay for foragel
  
• only in the spring..bar soap helps stop them from chewing. They get hay 5 x a day as well.
  
• because he was not getting enough forage and had developed an ulcers.
  
• Toys! Cones, exercise balls, basket balls, rubber tubs, anything to play w/to stop chewing my barn.
  
• hay pellets, lotsof fiber
  
• cover wood with metal U profiles/strips where possible
  
• Only during the winter when the weather is bad and they only go out for a few hours each day.
  
• Rebuild with oak instead of pine or other soft wood. Quit helps some, but not all.
  
• used to chew wood at old barn. New barn is concrete with PVC fence and I provide hay or grass 24/7
  
• They have always been good horses. I spend a lot of time with them.
  
• Lots of pasture time
  
• One never does, one always does and one only sometimes
  
• I toss a polar log into the paddocks when they are really chewing a lot
  
• Using rails instead of planks helps, and hotwiring top of fence
  
• 24/7 turnout may help; they do rub and scratch on posts, tho’
  
• electric fence
  
• No horse should be kept in a stall. Happy horses don’t chew!!!
  
• I give them more exercise and vary their schedules on feeding, training, trail riding .
  
• They use the fences to itch and itch and itch.
  
• more exercise alleviates boredom chewing
  
• I do have 1 that runs her teeth up stall bars.
  
• Why do people think horses stop chewing by taking off cribbing collars? They don’t! They do it more!
  
• I use chew stop if they start. Another thing that works is hot pepper sauce.
  
• Miracle collar, works wonders
  
• Some yes, some no. Mostly if they are bored
  
• Usually only in the winter, when they start to get board outside.
  
• electric fence!
  
• I make sure they get hay 3x a day. There is a mini that will “eat” the fence. Her hay is restricted
  
• Proper nutrition is key, keep them busy, turn them out so they are not bored!!!!
  
• One of my two only chew the bark on our trees
  
• I Hope You Have an answer.
  
• Paint with Rainmaker and have hay in stall to stop “self-medicating”
  
• eletric fence……….
  
• Running a hot wire and covering wood with tin helps some
  
• Just on the truck if they get too it.
  
• HAY — but there has been such a shortage we’ve had to feed complete feed and then they’re bored!!!
  
• I used electric fence wire to keep them off the wooden shelter that shades their water trough
  
• only chews out of boredom in stall, so keep him out as much as possible.
  
• Ace has toys. And he will make toys out of anything he can get hold of.
  
• One cribber, one chewer, one nibbler, four nothing
  
• Less boredom! Minimize confinement and maximize freedom in pastures. Coarse hay.
  
• Put homemade horseradish on it! Stopped that.
  
• Pipe fences and metal barns
  
• not so much in the barn, but outside they eat the rails and shelter for lunch!
  
• This winter was especially bad
  
• Quitt works great. It is a feed through product.
  
• diesel mixed with cayenne pepper, painted on
  
• NOT BARN KEPT. FREE PASTURE AND RUN-IN SHED. HEALTHIER ENVIRONMENT FOR BODY AND MIND. NO CRIBBING.
  
• I call them BEAVER’S!!
  
• My horse never had the predisposition to chew.
  
• They have access to hay/pasture 24/7 and get mineral but still persist in gnawing wood.
  
• There is a spray called McNasty that WORKS, but take care not to breathe it in.
  
• Sometimes. It seems to be more when the weather is bad and they are bored.
  
• Plenty of pasture turnout with other horses. Less stress happier in a herd.
  
• They do not wind suck but like to chew. I have resorted to giving them untreated lumber to chew on.
  
• Unfortunately I have no tips, but I would like to find out how other owners deal with this situation
  
• We have flashing installed on top edges in stall, hot wire on board fences
  
• balanced diet is very important
  
• Lots of toys
  
• they eat the hawthorn & fir tree limbs
  
• Only during winter when forage is limited to twice daily feeding
  
• 24/7 pasture
  
• I keep them in pasture, exercised and their minds busy.when bored
  
• put metal on edges where possible
  
• She chews when she is missing a vtitamin or mineral so I increase Grow N Win and she stops it!
  
• decreased hay rations have led to chewing this year; feed more hay
  
• I put lemon dishwashing liquid on the fences and now they have stopped chewing.
  
• I use brown crib halt
  
• My horse thinks he’s a beaver!
  
• Metal corner moldings wherever they will fit.
  
• hot wire
  
• My three and a half yr old filly learned to crib very early on. I use a neck sweat, works!
  
• I have one who cribs
  
• Make sure they have plenty of roughage.
  
• Spraying “McNasty” once a week seems to help.
  
• they’re outside and not bored so they don’t chew
  
• when I get horses that bear the wood, I cut 3-4 ft. lenghts of poplar or willow and toss in paddock.
  
• They can’t chew — we use pipe corrals and barns
  
• miracle collar
  
• He eats bark off trees,other horses’ tails & anything he can get his teeth on(he’s out on pasture)
  
• I have a 31 yo cribber – all agree cribbing keeps him young at heart – go figure
  
• The barn, the fences… I’m glad I don’t have a wooden leg.
  
• I don’t have horses, I have 4-legged, 1,200-pound termites.
  
• At least one thing that has not happened YET !!!!
  
• A bar of soap rubbed on the fence or stall door is effective–it tastes bad but won’t hurt them

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