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cribbing: a standalone construct

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cribbing1 CONSTRUCTCrib-bitingEQUINE STEREOTYPY

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Equine behaviour

A horse's air-gulping oral stereotypy

In equine behaviour, cribbing (crib-biting) is an oral stereotypy in which a stabled horse grips a fixed object such as a stall edge or fence rail with its upper incisors, tenses and arches its neck, and draws in air with a characteristic grunt. Schilder's 1986 note on vices in stabled horses and Wickens and Heleski's 2010 Crib-biting behavior in horses: A review link it to restricted foraging, gut discomfort, and sparse enrichment, and to altered reward pathways, rather than to simple imitation. The referent is a repetitive, functionless behaviour pattern that can wear the incisors and is associated with raised colic risk. It has nothing to do with a timber retaining wall beyond the shared word 'crib'.[1][2]

Unit
The rate and duration of crib-biting bouts a horse performs
Recovery means
Eased by increasing forage, turnout, and social contact; anti-cribbing collars suppress but do not cure the behaviour.
Measured by
Recorded by direct or video observation of bout frequency and total time spent cribbing, and by owner questionnaires.

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References

  1. Schilder, M. B. H. (1986). Vices in stabled horses with special reference to crib-biting. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 15(1), 89–90. https://doi.org/10.1016/0168-1591(86)90027-4
  2. Wickens, C. L., & Heleski, C. R. (2010). Crib-biting behavior in horses: A review. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 128(1–4), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2010.07.002

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