January 2004

Miracle Collar Fights Cribbing Best

You won’t stop this annoying vice, but you can minimize it.

The Miracle Collar can make cribbing a memory for you and your horse.

Cribbing is a stable vice, a repetitive behavior where the horse grasps an object firmly with his teeth, sets his neck in an exaggerated arch, displaces his larynx and forces a rush of air into his mouth, resulting in a distinctive, grunt-like noise. Cribbing is more annoying than harmful, although cribbing on hard objects can wear or chip teeth and can cause overdevelopment of the muscles involved in this action. It also, of course, damages fences and stalls.

Cribbing can be more difficult to break than pawing, weaving or pacing because the horse seems to feel a need to do it. Cribbers have elevated levels of the naturally occurring narcotic beta-endorphin,…