12/21/2023 0 Comments Rubber cribbing boards for horsesThere is without a doubt an inherited component to cribbing. There are approximately 1 bajillion studies to back me up on this.Ī combination of nature and nurture creates a cribber. ![]() Got that? This is not how horses start cribbing. It’s because they learned it from a cribber Spoiler alert: going to talk about that in a sec. There’s a big maybe to even that part of things. Putting a horse in a stall, keeping them there 23 hours per day, and feeding them a lot of grain, now that’s how to make a cribber, mostly. Just putting a horse in a stall won’t cause one to start cribbing. Much like how to properly pet a cat, there are a lot of individual factors that go into being a cribber. This one is a maybe, but it’s complicated. ![]() So scratch ulcers off the list of things that causes cribbing. Gastrogard was sure they were going to cure cribbing, but a study of cribbers showed many of them didn’t have ulcers at all. ![]() That’s a big old maybe, but probably not. Think you know why they crib? Think again! It’s time to do some mythbusting, Tony style. Why on earth would you want to grab a board, or, worse yet, metal, with your teeth, bite down, and lean back all while sucking in air? And yet, cribbing horses are driven to do just that, sometimes no matter how hard their humans try to prevent it. Cats would never do something this weird. This behavior makes absolutely no sense to me.
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