Veterinary notes for horse owners : a manual of horse medicine and surgery . ll, especially when their hay takes the form of chop ^; hencethe almost invariable tendency which stabled horses have tognaw wood-work. I am unable to trace the connection betweenthis habit and the serious vice of wind-sucking:. Idleness and ennui are two potent predisposing causes of thisvice, even if they do not give rise to it. Irritability while groom-ing may prompt a horse to crib, by inducing him to catch holdof his manger with his teeth. Want of food disposes horses tolick their manger and the walls oi their st
Veterinary notes for horse owners : a manual of horse medicine and surgery . ll, especially when their hay takes the form of chop ^; hencethe almost invariable tendency which stabled horses have tognaw wood-work. I am unable to trace the connection betweenthis habit and the serious vice of wind-sucking:. Idleness and ennui are two potent predisposing causes of thisvice, even if they do not give rise to it. Irritability while groom-ing may prompt a horse to crib, by inducing him to catch holdof his manger with his teeth. Want of food disposes horses tolick their manger and the walls oi their stalls, and thus to con-tract this vice (Cadeac). Charles Martin regards insufficiencyin the volume of the food and arrangements of the manger which CRIB-BITINa. 561 facilitate cribbing as the principal causes. Mr. Crowhurst, (Vet. Record, 25th Jan., 1902), takes the same view,and states that he has never seen cart horses crib, and that theirimmunity is due to the fact that these animals are always givenbulky food. Farges has shown that heredity, especially on the. Fig. 149.—Perpendicular view of tables of the incisor teeth of a crib-biter (same as Figs. 147 and 148). paternal side, is a frequent cause of this vice. All experiencedhorsemen are aware that it is often acquired by imitation, whichfact, as pointed out by Farges, is true only as regards young is possible that irritation from teething or worms may induce it. EFFECT ON HEALTH.—The practice of this vice gives rise tovarious diseased conditions of the alimentary canal, such as : dila- 36 562 NEKVOUS DISEASES. tion of the gullet and of the stomach; injury to the walls of thestomach; and chronic inflammation of the stomach and intestines. PREVENTION.—Being aware of the evil influence of imitationamong young horses in the acquisition of this vice, we should bevery careful, even among foals, to protect them against it. The only certain means, with which I am acquainted, for pre-venting the cribber or
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