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July 2008 • VOLUME 35 • © HORSES For LIFE™ Magazine





What’s new about cribbing.

Cribbing is a repetitive and apparently functionless behaviour where the horse grasps an object with his teeth, usually a fence or other solid object, inhales, and then grunts. This behaviour is called a stereotypy. Horses typically demonstrate locomotory (head shaking, weaving, striking, pawing), oral (wood chewing, lip licking, cribbing) or grooming (self-mutilation) stereotypies.

Feral horses do not exhibit any stereotypical behaviours in the wild (1). Most horses demonstrating stereotypical behaviours are stall kept, socially isolated, or intensively domestically managed (1). According to some researchers, the best way to avoid stereotypical behaviour is to




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