Unfortunately I have a few.
Kicking chains don’t work at all. Wondering where I can get quality gym tumbling style mats that are not blue…
And, any other suggestions for horses that kick the stalls a lot?
At the barn that I am at they have black stall mats hanging on a 2 x4 on the inside of the stall walls. When the horses kicks there is two or so inches of give so that the horse doesn’t injure themselves while kicking.
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Yes, hanging regular stall mats on a board so there is a space behind the mat helps most horses not hit something quite so solid as the stall wall.
Also helps if they have open top stall divisions to put something there to make them solid, so they can’t see the other horse they get annoyed over and causes some to kick, especially mares can be bad about that.
This is what we have done for the one stall kicker. He is in the end stall and only kicks at his neighbor so we only had to mat that side. Damping down the noise and having the extra give means he has given up. We used one from TSC. DH used lag screws and big washers to help keep it from ripping.
In some areas you can buy conveyor belts from quarries. I would guess you could hang strips of the conveyor belts from the 2x4 and it would be cheaper than a stall mat but not as heavy.
Both Ogilvy and Kentucky Horseware make gorgeous and affordable kick mats.
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I had a boarder at our farm who was a stall kicker. Had a run in situation, so was never shut in, but liked the noise it made when he would kick the wooden stall wall. It’s really good for getting the human’s attention and making demands known. We had him for a year or so. Then the owner moved him to a different barn, one with concrete stall walls. I think he maybe kicked the wall once. Never kicked it again. It wasn’t nearly as fun and effective as it had been.
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