Posted 2015-06-11 6:53 PM Subject: Help! Horse wanting to chew on new trailer!
My horse has always been a chewer... Well now she is chewing on my new trailer! She chews while inside on the window frame. She chews while tied on the outside as well! I thought about putting a grazing muzzle on her but my husband thought that would look bad. Does anyone else have any suggestions? Thanks in advance!
Posted 2015-06-11 7:24 PM Subject: RE: Help! Horse wanting to chew on new trailer!
A Gopher's Worst Nightmare
Posts: 5094 Location: Southern Oregon
A grazing muzzle is your only saving grace. It will not just save your trailer, but might help her keep her teeth from getting beat up as well. lol. It doesnt look that terrible.
Posted 2015-06-11 9:45 PM Subject: RE: Help! Horse wanting to chew on new trailer!
Serious Snap Trapper
Posts: 4275 Location: In The Snow, AZ
My five year old chews my mangers.... I'm going to get a muzzle... I don't care how it looks. He's eating my trailer. Him gonna get a muzzle. He also chews tack and lead ropes. I'll just tell people he bites so don't touch my horse.
Posted 2015-06-11 11:32 PM Subject: RE: Help! Horse wanting to chew on new trailer!
Elite Veteran
Posts: 1131
Honestly? No one around here cares that we put a one man chain twitch on my mare at the trailer when tacking her up (because she bites and has tore all the paint off part of our trailer from it), so I doubt they would care that the horse had a muzzle. You will thank yourself later for getting ahead of the habit before she actually eats part of it and get sick from it or cuts/tears up her mouth doing it.
ETA: We have one girl that races with us that muzzles here in the stall because he cribs and the collars don't work on him. He gets a hard plastic orange one that looks like a bucket on his face. It adds personality.
Help! Horse wanting to chew on new trailer!
