Cribbers

This is one a friend of mine did and it worked. I have not had a cribber but she was having a world of trouble with one horse. She did the same thing you have she spent alot of money on things that didn't work until she asked her grandmother. She said take a full bottle of chili powder or cayene pepper and a bucket of warm water mix to gather and paint on liberally. It works.

We had a horse that was off the track and when she had nothing to do she started to chew.We like you chewed no matter what we did and as for the pepper , hot sauce painted on I think she liked it hot!LOL. Does your horse crib and suck?Our's didn't suck air only chewed. What did finally work was a grazing muzzle.The kind of thing you use so your horse can only eat small amounts of grass at a time.She couldn't get her teeth on the wood so she couldn't chew it up. It helps if they have something to play with.This time of year they love to drag and play tug of war with the stripped down christman tree. Raydene

A few years ago a friend of mine also had a horse that did this constantly, I was told they did it out of boredom.. but anyways, this is what we were told to do. A bottle of tabasco sauce or a chili powder paste. Paint it all over the boards/rails or where ever it is that the horse is cribbing at. I would think it's just simply the "burn" in the throat when they "suck wind" as I call it. I know it worked with the horse we tested it on. He never did it again.

The cribbing strap made by Weaver is supposed to work. Think it costs $45 or so. There are some horses that will still crib through those. If he's still cribbing when out on the pasture it may have become more than just a bad habit. He may have become addicted to the happy endorphins that cribbing releases when they're doing it. Cribbing does more than just destroy fences, it also permanently ruins their front teeth. Once they're worn down they can't bite off the grass to eat properly anymore. I hope you can get his cribbing problem under control. Good Luck!

Horses are more or less like children, they get bored and need something or someone to play with. The tabasco sauce trick and the chilli powder do work. i find however that the taste and the smell fade away so u need to keep reapplying or simply give your horse something to play with a plastic jug a big rubber ball or just something like that. i even have a horse that loves to play wit a gallen paint can so really anything will work.