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| I have a 6 month old colt that I caught cribbing. Now chewing, actually cribbing. We weaned him first part of November and started after we weaned him. I have a ball in his stall, salt licks.
We painted his stall with chew stop stuff but he cribbed on his feed bin today. Any suggestions / ideas to get him to stop? |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | cmcelroy0308 - 2015-11-24 5:56 PM I have a 6 month old colt that I caught cribbing. Now chewing, actually cribbing. We weaned him first part of November and started after we weaned him. I have a ball in his stall, salt licks. We painted his stall with chew stop stuff but he cribbed on his feed bin today. Any suggestions / ideas to get him to stop?
You keep him in a stall? If so he needs to be out, hes still a baby and needs to beable to run and play and learn to be a horse. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | I'm guessing ulcers. THE has a great supplement that will fix those right up in GastroPLUS. I would also make sure he has hay of some sort 24/7. Get a slow feed hay net if you need to. My weanlings have hay in their feeder at all times. |
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| He gets out daily for about 3 or 4 hours a day. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | cmcelroy0308 - 2015-11-24 6:02 PM He gets out daily for about 3 or 4 hours a day.
Thats good, does he have a buddy to keep him company? If not he really needs one. |
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| He does, one of our older horses, but next week I'm getting his half brother who is the same age so they will be able to run and play. The older horse doesn't really run around with him. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | cmcelroy0308 - 2015-11-24 6:19 PM He does, one of our older horses, but next week I'm getting his half brother who is the same age so they will be able to run and play. The older horse doesn't really run around with him.
Thats good to hear that he's not alone. He just sounds really bored to me being only 6 months old and just weaned. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | wyoming barrel racer - 2015-11-24 6:00 PM I'm guessing ulcers. THE has a great supplement that will fix those right up in GastroPLUS. I would also make sure he has hay of some sort 24/7. Get a slow feed hay net if you need to. My weanlings have hay in their feeder at all times. And this too is very advice ^^^^^^^^^^^ 
Keep hay in front of him 24/7
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Location: Mountains of VA | cmcelroy0308 - 2015-11-24 6:02 PM He gets out daily for about 3 or 4 hours a day.
Turn out 24/7 with a buddy that is close to his own age. He does not need to be standing in a stall. |
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Location: When you hit the middle of nowhere .. Keep driving | Southtxponygirl - 2015-11-24 6:22 PM
cmcelroy0308 - 2015-11-24 6:19 PM He does, one of our older horses, but next week I'm getting his half brother who is the same age so they will be able to run and play. The older horse doesn't really run around with him.
Thats good to hear that he's not alone. He just sounds really bored to me being only 6 months old and just weaned.
This... he's 6 months... he gets bored easily so you have to keep him occupied. My babies are out 24/7 with another gelding and lots of food... I have never had less then 2 foals at once either. He's bored and likely ulcery still from weaning so it wouldn't hurt treating him. Keep food (hay) in front of him and I just read your getting him a friend. I would try and keep them on turnout a lot longer during the day with the gelding but that's just IMO, they will learn to be horses from him and it should help deter him from keeping up the cribbing. |
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Location: West Texas | Yep, get him out of the stall will help. More than one reason to do so. Trainability, social interaction, and attention span will all be helped to develop with being out. I am not sure why, but a soft cube in the diet seems to really help cribbing as well. Get a salt block and/or mineral block too.
Not everyone can do this but at about a year or so, we try to put and older mare or gentle gelding in with the babies for a while. We also ran all the babies on the mommas in pasture until 6-8 months of age. Anything you can do to mimick natural herd behavior the better.
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Location: Texas | Feed him plenty of alfalfa and treat him for ulcers. |
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Location: Somewhere between S@%&# stirrer and Saint | It is just messing around but paint the wood with Dawn dish soap and stop the habit. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | Southtxponygirl - 2015-11-24 5:59 PM
cmcelroy0308 - 2015-11-24 5:56 PM I have a 6 month old colt that I caught cribbing. Now chewing, actually cribbing. We weaned him first part of November and started after we weaned him. I have a ball in his stall, salt licks. We painted his stall with chew stop stuff but he cribbed on his feed bin today. Any suggestions / ideas to get him to stop?
You keep him in a stall? If so he needs to be out, hes still a baby and needs to beable to run and play and learn to be a horse.
THIS!!! At 6 months old.... He should be OUTSIDE!!! Kicking up his heels and 'horsing around'... |
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Location: Where I am happiest | hotpaints - 2015-11-24 6:32 PM cmcelroy0308 - 2015-11-24 6:02 PM He gets out daily for about 3 or 4 hours a day. Turn out 24/7 with a buddy that is close to his own age. He does not need to be standing in a stall.
Ditto!! The most destructive thing you can do, both physically and mentally, to a baby is stall them. They need to be out!! Turn that baby out with pasture mates to run and play with. |
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Location: In the wrong place at the wrong time | If he were mine he'd be out 24/7 running, playing, eating and building strong bones, learning how to be a horse not in a stall but that's just me, mine are only in when they're sick or injured otherwise they have nice run-ins. |
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