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Would you pass up a great horse because its a cribber2007-11-24 21:23:30

He could pass the vice on to my other horses so, He would have to be a great one.

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i would not pass up a great horse unless the price was out of my range

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if that's his only problem no.

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Absolutely. I have 4 other animals, and would want no chance of him instilling that vice into them.

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No, Just like you said you can put a collar on them. But I would look really hard for something else. I don't want them showing my other horses that. I had bought a mare a long time ago & they keep her in a box stall & that was it. She cribed (they didn't tell me that until I got her home) & she would tear her stall up really bad!! Kick the walls, pull the mates up.. But then I put her in pasture & she stopped all those things! If I leave her out she is happy.

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Yes, my first horse was a very bad cribber. He was a nervous wreck all the time, and would crib through any collar put on him. When he would crib he would get spastic and vicious. Literally, sometimes I would open his stall door like always, and he would freak out, a few times he would even flip him self onto the ground. When he was able to crib I couldn't even groom him with out him going ballistic. It made him nearly impossible to work with at times, I ended up having to make him wear a muzzle as it was the only thing to stop him cribbing (belive me, we tried EVERYTHING else imaginable). His issues stemmed from being severely abused, he was just a stressed out horse but his cribbing made him act like a drug addicted person. When he wasn't able to crib he was the sweetest horse imaginable. This is really a great horse, he is now being ridden and handled by a 9 year old and winning everything still, because of his muzzle.