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Wind-sucking is similar to cribbing and produces the same noise. The difference between wind-sucking and cribbing is that when wind-sucking, a horse doesn't steady himself on a stationary object before drawing air into the back of his throat.
The term cribbing is used to describe the behavior of a horse who rests his top teeth on a relatively stationary object and sucks air into his throat. About three percent of all horses crib, although in some populations of thoroughbred racing horses, this figure may be as high as 10 percent.
Cribbing is a stereotypy, a repetitive sequence of behaviors that appears to have no purpose. It occurs in all breeds of horses, regardless of temperament, and lasts about three to five seconds. A horse first presses his teeth on an object. Usually any object will do, including a feed bin, a bucket, the top of the stall door or a stall board, a fence or post, a tree trunk or limb, or even the horse's own foreleg or a human conveniently standing nearby. The horse then contracts his muscles and arches his neck, pulling on the object while sucking air back into his throat and then releasing the air all at once. The release of air makes a distinctive belching or grunting sound.
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