Term #41: Crib

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"Cute. I would like to see a horse in a crib."

This is one of the 'popular' vices in the horse industry. Someone will say they have a horse who cribs, or they caught their horse cribbing. Cribbing is when a horse puts their upper teeth on a wooden post, arch their neck, and such in air. This is bad for their health where they're teeth can wear down, abnormal neck muscles, and weight loss from not eating when they do it for long periods of time.

They may have a higher risks to colic, gastric ulcers, and temporohyoid osteoarthritis.

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