What are some common indications that your horse is bored when left in his stall?

Question

What are some common indications that your horse is bored when left in his stall?

Answer 1

weaving,  cribbing, windsucking, chewing

Answer 2

pawing, kicking, weaving, pacing, bobbing head, cribbing, just standing there, just standing there and about to fall asleep, ect...

Answer 3

cribbing, kicking, unrest, and chewing on food/water buckets

Answer 4

Cribbing, weaving, windsucking, digging...  Picking on the horse next to it, figuring out how to undo the latch and go visiting...

Answer 5

Usually if you horse is bored, they will reck things in their stalls like if there is wood they chew on it and if they wreck water buckets and stuff.

Try putting toys in the stall there are toys made for horses.

My horses really like soccer balls

Answer 6

Weaving, cribbing, digging, box walking, windsucking, kicking at the walls or door, banging on the door, nodding

Answer 7

cribbing, kicking, agitated and/or sometimes aggressive behavior, digging, stall walking (pacing), weaving. Probably more that I am not thinking of at the moment. Each of these can turn into bad habits, particularly cribbing, weaving, and stall walking. Weaving and stall walking are extremely bad habits for a horse to acquire as they are near to impossible to correct. I suggest that if your horse is showing signs of any of these behaviors, give him more turn out time, and exercise.

Answer 8

cribbing, paseing, kicking, restlessness, pawing, chewing.. basically anything out of the ordanary

Answer 9

All the answers have some merit.  Just understand that a horse that is locked up in a small box is bored out of his mind every second of his life.  Even if he is not exhibiting an overt behavioral "vice", he is miserable.  It goes against his nature and every fiber of his being.  Besides all that, it is beyond cruel.  Think about it.  Horses should have a "horsey life".