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RE: [RC] [RC] cribbing - Mel Cochran

I'll throw in my two cents on this one.

It really depends on how bad of a cribber the horse is. In my experience there are varying degrees of cribbers. There are the recreational cribbers that have nothing better to do because they are too confined and will quit once turned out in a large pasture - then there are the addicts.

I used to have an addict. He was a 3 year old gelding that I bought, knowing he was a cribber. He had been kept in a stall for most of his life and I thought turning him out in the pasture would cure him. It did not. He would stand in a corner of the pasture and crib on a post. I put a miracle collar on him. He learned to relocate it so that he could still crib. By this time he was looking really really nasty. He was filling up on air and was so high on endorphins he didn't care about food. At that point, I got a shock collar that would give him a slight jolt when he cribbed. This stopped him from cribbing, but then it was like he went through withdrawals. He would not eat and just stood in the pasture with his head down. When the batteries went dead in the collar he would go right back to cribbing. I managed to get weight back on him and sell him - I told the buyer about his cribbing and what a hard keeper the horse was because of it. He bought him anyway and has managed to keep the horse in OK body condition. I will never ever buy another horse that cribs. That is an automatic NO for me. There are plenty of other choices out there.


mel


From: Ridecamp Guest <guest-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [RC]   cribbing
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 23:47:53 GMT

Please Reply to: laurie janz ljanz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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I am looking at a 12yr.old Arabian gelding who is an ex-dressage horse for possible CTR. He is perfect in every way "but" he cribs. How or will this affect this horse on a long distance ride? Is this horse worth pursuing?
thanks Laurie


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