What does windsuck mean when horses get it?

Answer 1

Wind-sucking is a bad habit sometimes caused by stall boredom The horse lays grabs part of the stall or manger with his teeth and draws air into the stomach with a grunting sound. It can cause colic in extreme cases. It seems to very addictive behavior and very hard to cure.

I have never heard of whindsucking. You possibly could be thinking of windsucking, and spelled the word wrong. Windsucking is, according to answers.com, "

Wind Sucking becomes a drug addiction with horses. They are addicts. Each time they suck and gulp air they receive a hit of endorphins which is similar to a drug, hence it's addiction.

The habit is generally caused by boredom in the stables environment and/or copying other horses that do it. Such boredom can be increased by the lack of opportunity for the horse to graze, which they do for around 16 hours in their paddock environment. The feeding of lot's of hay keeps horses occupied whereas in the Racing Industry where small hard feeds are fed, the chances of boredom and eventual wind sucking is drastically increased and in real life this is where I meet most of them.

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Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

Wind sucking is when a horse bites on something (eg. wood) and sucks up. horses do this when they are bored.

Answer 4

They usually wind suck (also known as cribbing) cause their bored, so they usually windsuck in the winter when they are most bored.