Anyone use stall kick pads for a kicker? And if so, are they all so darn expensive? I just looked at one site, and they were about $565 PER WALL! Is there an alternative to buying commercial kick pads?
My mare (of course) is a wall kicker. I tried the kick chains, and they fell apart within minutes and were pretty much demolished in half an hour. I didn’t even think you COULD demolish a chain, but she did. Mares. :mad: She’s lucky I love her. haha.
One barn I boarded at with a kicker (at feeding times) just lag bolted stall mats to the wall. In the past (with another horse), my vet recommended that we put up a board (like a 2x4) then hang the mats from that, so there would be an air gap between the mat and the wall. We did not actually try it as we were able to just rearrange horses to make the kicker happy. But I’d try that before going to the pricey pads you are looking at!
I just screwed stall mats onto the walls for my mare that kicked along with hanging boat buoys from the stall bars because she also liked to “hump” the wall with her hip. Worked like a charm and not too expensive.
Thanks, horsepoor and Jungle Monkey!
I would like to suggest that you look in Quitkick. Has worked extremely well for my friend’s horses who were committed kickers, and has the advantage of being (fairly) portable if you move stalls.
Looks like a cool system. $500.00 still not cheap, though. But I will research this system a little more. Thanks!
THIS!!! We hung some tires between the mats and the wall for a bad kicker. Most kickers like to “HEAR” the noise!!!
At about three feet up from the floor, affix a 4 x 4 board to the wall, horizontally. Then get a carpet remnant that is roughly the width of the wall and 3 feet high. Bolt that to the 4x4 so that the carpet hangs straight down and is not affixed to anything at the bottom where it meets the stall floor. when they kick, they hit the free-hanging carpet and not the wall itself. No payoff to that. They stop. And in the meantime, not beating the crap out their hocks because the carpet is a buffer to the wall behind it.
222orchids, I do have some old carpet. I might at least give that a shot! Thanks, all, for the tips. 
And I’m cleaning out the stall I have at the other end of the barn and I’m going to move her away from her neighbors. I can’t afford for her to be hurt. She has a swelling on her back leg. She is not really lame, so I’ll keep an eye on it and call the vet if it doesn’t go down. Sigh.
Just be careful with carpet and exercise mats or anything that the horse might be able to ingest…I tried the nice soft exercise mats first and my mare just ripped the crap out of them with her teeth…also be on guard for a spook when they enter the stall for the first time.
The mats on the walls scared the beejezus out of my mare at first.
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