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Location: South MS | Anyone use them for that purpose? Or suggestions on stopping horse from kicking walls? |
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 Saint Stacey
| Kicking chains or kicking shoes. Kicking shoes are just normal horse shoes closed at the heel so they just fit over the cannon bone. you slide them down to the pastern. When the horse kicks they rattle around and bang the pastern/coronet band and make the horse not kick. I always made my kick chains with a nylon dog collar. You attach a length of chain about 1 1/2' long and put the collar around the pastern. When they kick the chain hits them. Shoes work better in the trailer and chains work better in a stall. |
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  Northern Chocolate Queen
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Location: ND | I had one that kicked in the stall. I eventually decided it wasn't worth stalling him, he hated it in the barn & was wrecking things. I tried kick chains & shoes with no luck, I think they just ****ed him off more! I even tried ulcer meds when he was stalled with no luck. |
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| We cross hobble my gelding in a stall, because he is a wall climber. He still did it, but he couldn't get his feet over the wall and tear boards off or tear shoes off. So we let him climb with them on because he's not hurting anything. He's just really anxious about seeing his neighbors. (We do NOT stall him often, in fact, we haven't in two years. That's just what we did with him when hauling a lot.) |
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Location: TN | I'm sure it's aggravating but I would turn him out. Horses aren't meant to be cooped up all the time. |
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Location: South MS | Thanks for the replies! She stays in a big turnout pen at home. I am wanting to haul to some big shows this year and looking at any options out there to hopefully keep her from doing damage to herself, her stall, and possibly neighboring horses. I think cross hobbling might be what I try next. She is fine in a trailer - not fine being shut in her stall, even with a horse stalled beside her. |
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | Magnesium and B 1 will help calm her. Make sure she has plenty to eat and a stall ball, hand it from the ceiling and low enough to bop on the head so she can play with it. |
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Breeding hobbles to stop kicking stall walls?