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Wind Sucking or Cribbing in Horses

Last Updated: September 26, 2011

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Wind sucking, also known as aerophagia, is the same habit as cribbing - the horse grasps onto any object with its incisor teeth, arches its neck, pulls backward, and swallows air.


See Abnormal Horse Behavior for more vices and unusual behaviors.

 

 

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