Lacie's Foal of Hope
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I need suggestions on what to do to stop a tail chewer!!!
: We have one mare and one yearling filly (both big horses). The yearling-Lacie- has recently this year started chewing our other mare-Sheba's- tail. Sheba is an older mare about 16yrs old, and does not have a mean bone in her body, and just allows Lacie to chew her tail. Lacie is a nursemare foal adopted through Last Chance Corral, who was hand raised as an orphan since the age of two weeks. Lacie has access to free choice minerals and salt and even a 50 lb. special mineral lick for horses. Both horses are turned out together in their pasture, and their barn has dutch door's which allows them to come and go as they please. Their pasture is huge and very lush green grass, but most of the time they just choose to lounge around in their stalls in front of their fans. This is when I think Lacie is doing the chewing! The stalls have grass hay in hay racks, which they just pick at, and both stalls have jolly apple licks (boredom breakers) in them. They are fed grain three times a day as well. So...... I really don't think this is an nutritional problem.
Now these are a few things we have tried to deter her from the tail......
vasiline and red pepper on the ends of Sheba's tail.... didn't work and made tail messy
fly spray on tail, vinegar on tail
we just got No Chew this week but Lacie licked it out of our hands
We have also tried braiding material in Sheba's tail, tail bags, wrapping the tail in vet wrap but we found that this was breaking her hair and prevented her from getting flys.
We have looked into purchasing a muzzel.... but I really don't want to do that to Lacie! :no:
We just don't know what to do anymore!!!
: Am I going to have to buy Sheba a fake tail
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~Carly~ [/font]
Now these are a few things we have tried to deter her from the tail......
vasiline and red pepper on the ends of Sheba's tail.... didn't work and made tail messy
fly spray on tail, vinegar on tail
we just got No Chew this week but Lacie licked it out of our hands
We have also tried braiding material in Sheba's tail, tail bags, wrapping the tail in vet wrap but we found that this was breaking her hair and prevented her from getting flys.
We have looked into purchasing a muzzel.... but I really don't want to do that to Lacie! :no:
We just don't know what to do anymore!!!
~Carly~ [/font]