Cribbing has been studied for more than 400 years without fully understanding why domesticated horse life would cause the condition, writes Christa Lesté-Lasserre, MA. She shares 10 things researchers have learned since the 2016 update. Here are three of them:
- Cribbing is a stress-coping mechanism, not a vice
- Cribbing literally changes the horse’s brain
- It resolved almost entirely in a test horse treated with CBD
Source: The Horse, November 21, 2024. Link.
Also see: Search results for: cribbing, AHD Archives. Link.
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