In regard to the habit of crib-biting in horses, the Live Stock Journal says:— Crib-biting is a very bad habib of many horses. It is really, more or less, nothing but swallowing air—a pressing down forcibly into the stomach great mouthfuls of air, which often causes by its accumulation colic and severe pain. If this bad custom is persevered in, it leads gradually to derangement of the digestive organs and chronic catarrh of the stomach. It is exceedingly difficult to make a horse abandon the vice. Many animals learn this disagreeable. habit from a crib-biting companion. Therefore, crib-biters should be isolated from their fellows. Schwarz, in his book "The Horse," ably translated, revised, and edited by Dr. George Fleming, and just issued from the press, Bays that weariness and hunger are the principal causes of crib-biting ; " therefore, a plentiful supply of food and sufficient work are the best preventives of this unfortunate propensity."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9719, 15 January 1895, Page 3
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