Wood EATING!!!!! HELP!!!

[Ruby Rider]

HEllo all... well my horses go out to pasture in the morning and get put up after school and wehen my friend and i come to get them i see bullet and Ruby in a corner literly EATING WOOD!!!! What should i do... they have 5 acers to eat and play in ... i just don't get it... and i can't put like bad tasting stuff on the wood ... there is too much!!!( around the edeges or the pasture and... there and some ragged stumps they are eating too....) What so you think i should do... i was thinking about those mussles that let them eat grass and not chew but i donno.
HELP!!!! :eek:

[Barrelbabe_23]

Well the only thing I can tell you is to put like hot sauce on wherever there eating..my horse deos the same thing!I no it kinda sounds mean but!!

Well I hope this helped

[Ruby Rider]

thats what my dad told me too ... but to put it on all the wood i would have to have alot of hotsause!!! thanx tho

[Barrelbabe_23]

oh ok sorry!!you can search up for some stuff

[Manda]

You can buy a supplement (I think it's called Quitt) and put it in their feed, it supposedly stops them chewing wood. Or getting cribbing collars for all of them

[What'szat]

Go to the grocery store and buy the most inexpensive liquid dish soap. Take a sponge and your dish soap and cover all of the wood areas that they chew on. If you do this a few times they will lose interest because they won't like the taste.

[Casper2002]

Paprika also works really good. you can just sprinkle a little over the spots where she likes to chew and they won't touch it. Good Luck.

[DixieGirl]

Or you could try the cribbing harness or cribbing supplement. :)

[fowlerk]

Or you could try the cribbing harness or cribbing supplement. :)


A horse Iknew did that and the cribbing collar worked!

[MustangGam3r]

just put some lousiana hot sause on the fence and pepper on the ground and they should stop it real quick

Good Luck

[Ruby Rider]

Or you could try the cribbing harness or cribbing supplement. :)
but they arn't cribbing they are eating it!!!!!

[DixieGirl]

I think you should try it anyway to see that happens.

[silverleprichuan]

A cribbing collar won't due jack because this horse has pica. Pica refers to the eating of materials other than normal food which in this case is wood (lignophagia). It can be caused by a variety of things including a lack of fiber (not enough roughage), a salt, potassium, or phosphorous deficiency, or chronic stomach pain (such as ulcers). Even if the problem is found and treated the behavior often becomes habitual. A vet should do blood work, check for ulcers, and evaluate your horses diet to determine the cause. Pica can be very dangerous especially lignophagia. Once you determine why your horse developed this condition you can work to treat him as necessary, in the mean time I would paint all of your fencing with creosote to discourage chewing.

[mandyicequeen14]

A cribbing collar won't due jack because this horse has pica. Pica refers to the eating of materials other than normal food which in this case is wood (lignophagia). It can be caused by a variety of things including a lack of fiber (not enough roughage), a salt, potassium, or phosphorous deficiency, or chronic stomach pain (such as ulcers). Even if the problem is found and treated the behavior often becomes habitual. A vet should do blood work, check for ulcers, and evaluate your horses diet to determine the cause. Pica can be very dangerous especially lignophagia. Once you determine why your horse developed this condition you can work to treat him as necessary, in the mean time I would paint all of your fencing with creosote to discourage chewing.

i agree with silver, i would have a vet look at your horse, but i would also get some like peper spray and spray the fences to help stop the wood eating

[DixieGirl]

Yeah now that I read what silver said it really does make since. :)

[bethfornow]

If your vet says your horse is fine, it may be a nervous or habitual action. In that case they sell Supplements with ingrediants to calm and subdue (ie rosemary) and to stop chewing (i dont know what kind of ingrediant would do that). Im sure your vet can give you a better idea.

[AidEE]

one of my horses used to chew wood like crazy. if we turned him out in the areana he would just sit there and chew on the jumps! my mom put him on quit chew or stop chew, whatever it's called, and it worked great. he doesent chew anymore YAY

[fowlerk]

To me it sounds like cribbing. Good Luck! :)

[BigStarLover]

the horse at the stables me & brianna ride at Stoni, He does that on his stall, so she put down like metal on the top ,

[Barrelbabe_23]

Go with Cassie's Idea It works REALLLYYY well but like she said its just a medal bar....ILYY Cassie

[horse_lover]

all my horses did that to 1 tree a long time ago, then when we moved them back to the back pasture, they never did, and the next time they moved back to my front pasture they didn't, every once in a while they chew that same tree, but not all the time, maybe they do it because they are hungry, my mom is a horse vet and I've heard her tell ppl that after they say their horses are eating trees or she said they might just be bored.... next time they do that, give them some hay and see if they quit, maybe try getting a jolly ball 4 them....

[horse_lover]

my horses did that 4 a little while too! IT IS NOT CRIBBING, I know what cribbing is, when we explain it on here, it might SOUND like cribbing but my horses did the EXACT same thing (but they stopped on their own 4 some reason).