How do stop goats from cribbing?

I had goats for many years. Try cutting bushes and throwing them into them. Gather up used Christmas trees. Poplar is one of the best for them. Old timers said that poplar trees were a natural dewormer. I think they are bored. Sometimes hay is not enough. It is their natural instict to chew things. They love to stand on their tippy toes and reach to eat. For my horses, I use (so not to mention names, the (Early morning one that starts withD) dish detergent, probably any will work and coat my barn where they are chewing. My friend has had good luck with wooden fences using this, but has to be done more often because of rain washing it away.

sounds like they are bored, or they are lacking some minerals. Do you have a mineral lick in with them. The thing we did with some of ours is put an old fisher price picnic table in with them to climb and play on.

Honest, you keep goats. How fascinating. Anyway, I don't know much about goats but I have read somewhere that when farm animlas do this they are missing something in their diet. Check with your vet. By the way I just love the hard goat cheese.

A Bullet. Im sorry dont really know anything about goats other than enjoy their cheese.

It sounds like you have some very bored goats. Is their enclosure big enough with trees and shrubs for mental stimulation? Something we used to do with horses is to paint the wood with a non toxic exterior paint to deter them but I'm not sure how well the taste of paint would deter a determined goat. Are you sure it's actually cribbing (sucking air while grabbing the wood) and not just wood chewing? In any case, I'd try painting it if it's bare wood first, try keeping them elsewhere if possible, or making their enclosure larger?

I have goats too and one of mine loves to eat wood. Lucky for me, he isn't eating the barn. He goes around and eats any boards that are lying around. And they do love for you to cut down branches for them. And he chews worse on the winter than the summer, cause in the winter, there aren't any good branches to chew on. I have a tree that they were really chewing and I tried Paint, but that didn't work at all, so I put some wire around the tree. They just about chewed all the bark off the tree. Good luck, hope you can get them to stop.