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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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You could have found your answer on this very site if you hadn't spelled windsucking wrong!!!!!!

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