Cribbing on Buckets

[desertmyst]

I have a mare that I love dearly but her cribbing drives me INSANE!! She prefers to crib on buckets, it used to be her feed bucket but the past few months has moved to the water buckets. It is frustrating because half the water gets dumped out of them as she pulls them away from the wall and lets go. I’ve put them up higher, down lower, hung them differently, put them in holders…the best one that worked was when I fit one inside a hay rack but wasn’t something I wanted to do all the time.

What do you do with your bucket cribbers? Thick rubber buckets? I’m thinking a rubbermade tub that sits on the ground? Or hook up a automatic waterer (but I don’t want it ripped off the wall)?

She only really does it when she’s eating or gets treats, she is 12 and I bought her from her breeder almost two years ago…they said she had always done this.

I would much rather just let her crib on the food bucket and leave the water alone!

[Highflyer]

Put a screweye in the wall on either side of the bucket 2/3 of the way down, and tie twine or use a bungie cord going from screweye to screweye across the bucket so that it can’t be moved away from the wall.

[shetroncts]

get a water bucket that goes inside a tire. then there is no lip for her to get ahold of. http://www.shetroncustomtrailers.com/windowsticker.php?UniqueID=2469 this is one we have used before but for feed in field, they cant tip or pick up the bucket and i believe you can get in larger sizes, but then you will need a larger tire. good luck!

[candyappy]

We had auto bowl waterers when my cribber was boarded. To keep him from destroying that, BO built a " fake wooden holder " around it at the top. Like having a bucket holder, but it protected the waterer itself and he was free to crib on that ( which he did).

[beowulf]

I ended up giving up and filling up a muck tub with water and putting it in the corner for one resolute cribber - would dump/scrub every 3 days.

First few times he knocked it over cribbing but soon found out he didn’t care for getting wet in the small tsunami he created knocking it over, and didn’t have a problem after he learned.

Sadly, removing the object a cribber cribs on just opens another one up for targeting.

[catherines]

[QUOTE=shetroncts;8425391]
get a water bucket that goes inside a tire. then there is no lip for her to get ahold of. http://www.shetroncustomtrailers.com/windowsticker.php?UniqueID=2469 this is one we have used before but for feed in field, they cant tip or pick up the bucket and i believe you can get in larger sizes, but then you will need a larger tire. good luck![/QUOTE]
This worked for m dedicated cribber .

[OTTB2]

Cribbing strap or muzzle? If those are out for some reason ten putting a muck bucket as the watering bucket would work.

[tucktaway]

I’ve had luck with a heavy rubber bucket hung very low… took the fun out of it for him.

[Trails]

I have found, as tucktaway mentioned, the lower the bucket is hung the harder it is for the horse to crib.