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Pat, you have more Knowledge and Experience in your field, which combined with the Ability to teach it, makes you more formidable and passionate than most people whether they have a PhD or just a phd don’t have it. Thanks for sharing with Us

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Thanks for the rope tip.

Horses chew tails from a lack of phosphorus. It happens when a large portion of a horses diet consists of alfalfa. The calcium/phosphorus ratio is completely off. Hair contains phosphorus and they eat other horses tails to try to get it.

Muchas for the front end work.

Thx

Have never written a comment before, but, the tail thing and mane being chewed off or out by another horse hit home with me. Had some horses in a pen with a mule and manes and tails were coming up missing. Thought culprit was the mule until all the manes and tails were gone but one old horses. I think he liked doing it and it was a social thing with the others. It takes so long for them to grow back! Took him straight to a sell and problem solved , thank you very much

I’ve seen tail chewing quite a number of times at different barns, completely different set ups, none consistent. In one case it was clearly a foal who was just obsessed with being under her moms belly. When she wasn’t feeding she was chewing on moms tail. The other cases were suspected to be boredom by their owners but when I found the horses feed was made up mostly of pellets I suggested they start including longer stalks of hay in the form of baled hay straight out of the field rather than flakes (cubes) where the stalks aren’t very long . This satisfies a horses natural need to forage on longer grasses. I can’t image Chinaco actually wanted his tail chewed off but rather, stood there as a social thing while the other horse chewed. That’s my best observation.

Hope you had a great trip down under. Regards to the tail chewing, don’t know why it happens, but it happens in Ireland too. Stay safe you guys.

I was mentally stuck on how to proceed with moving the front end. Thanks!

Good to see you got home safe and sound.

I have read lack of forage being the most common reason for tail chewing. We have plenty of grass hay here in Kansas, so not usually an issue, just see when a horse is hungry. If you're only feeding hay pellets instead of baled hay, is usually when horses might chew other long fiber like tails or manes. Why he backed up for it other than enjoying the "grooming" ??Free-choice minerals (not just salt) might also help with tail-chewing.

I've found its usually a young horse that will chew on tails, I usually chalk it up to them being bratty babies.

Pat, I had just explained that lead rope deal to my GF 2 hours earlier,

I have heard boredom

I enjoyed the video. I've never owned a tail chewer so I have no idea why they do it. I have heard all sorts of theories but as I have not had one do it, I really don't rate an opinion on it because anything I said would just be a guess. As to why a horse would let another one chew its tail? Same thing, I've not owned one but since you asked now I am curious too. Hopefully somebody knows.

My baby colts got their own corral or else they chew on them riding horses tails. Blocks don’t last as long in their corral either as the riding horses do, and there is more riding horses than babies. I got a question, I got this free three year old mare than only bucks in the barn and that’s why I got her. And she’s good at it as I’m not. I don’t drag a leg or nothing and I’m calm but she just has my number the first time I get on. (West river South Dakota) thanks!

Don't know the reason why, but had it happen that out of nowhere tails are being bitten short.

Why do we need from practical side or in everyday use such skills from horse to make a sidepass this way? Thanks.