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Spooksandbolts wrote:Didn't she go to see the horse in situ ? Didn't she check behaviour in the stable and look for obvious danger signs like chewed doors and fences? If not then there's a bloody huge lesson learned from a mistake!
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Spooksandbolts wrote:KizmetRanch is absolutely spot on .
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kwapp wrote:I've come to the conclusion that most horses chew wood. It may still annoy me, but as long as it's not cribbing, I mostly let it go. I did put some metal up in some places where I didn't want the boards chewed through. The gelding I brought home didn't chew on trees for 18 years before I got him (I knew the place and there wasn't any trees to chew on), and as soon as he got here, he helped kill a couple by chewing on them. There's grass in the field and they'll be nipping off tree branches. I think they just need the roughage. I've seen so many horses chewing wood when I go camping that I no longer really consider it a vice but more just what they do.
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Spooksandbolts wrote:kwapp wrote:I've come to the conclusion that most horses chew wood. It may still annoy me, but as long as it's not cribbing, I mostly let it go. I did put some metal up in some places where I didn't want the boards chewed through. The gelding I brought home didn't chew on trees for 18 years before I got him (I knew the place and there wasn't any trees to chew on), and as soon as he got here, he helped kill a couple by chewing on them. There's grass in the field and they'll be nipping off tree branches. I think they just need the roughage. I've seen so many horses chewing wood when I go camping that I no longer really consider it a vice but more just what they do.How many horses do you have experience of? I ask because I've had horses in number either owned or in my charge for all my lifetime and so many that I couldn't tell you how many. I do know that just over the past 20 years alone it's been more than 200.I can honestly say it's so exceptional for me to have experienced it that each and every one that's done it has been memorable and I can most definitely count on less than 2 hands the number that have chewed wood and I could tell you about each and every one of them.
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