why do horses...?

Question

i need a real answer to this question ok, i ride at this riding stable and there are some horses there that eat thier own feaces..why do they do that, they get fed enough and plenty of water, i always thought it was the mal nurished horses that do that, can someone help me out here?

Answer 1

some horses do this out of boredom. some do it because they are lacking minerals. And starving horses do this. Does she have salt and mineral blocks available??

Answer 2

They're bored. Its like cribbing or stall walking. Just a bad habit stabled horses get. They need to be out in the pasture more. I knew this one horse that just drank water all day long. He was bored and thats what he did to relieve boredom. His owners spent a lot of money on him, trying to figure out why he did that, was he sick, etc. Nope. Just bored. Put him out on full pasture board and he stopped drinking all that extra water.

Answer 3

Boredom. Not enough stimulation in their lives. We humans think that we can stick horses in stalls and forget them, but they are intelligent creatures who need attention as much as children do. When they don't get it, they become destructive. I had a gelding who not only ate fences, he ate through a flat stall wall (how did he do that?) got through to the next horse and ate her tail off. We had to muzzle the beast until we got him back into regular show training. He stopped then.

Answer 4

They're bored tell them to do more with the horses are train them to stop like me horse did it when he was sick and can't go out of his stall for 3 week so i walked him so he disnot start doing that

Answer 5

most who eat their droppings are either missing a vital nutrient like salt or copper or something or something else or aren't getting enough to eat and have to eat there poo to absorb the nutrients that didn't go in the 1st time

Answer 6

Everyone has answered the same... boredom

Answer 7

They all gave good answers