Can you solve the problem not treat the symptoms
Why is she chewing fences:
Is she just eating the fence or using it to windsuck. Intensely dislike windsuckers but you can get a face mask that prevents them sucking but still lets them graze. Very hard to cure once the habit is imprinted. If confined to an electric fence system I have seen them try to suck on concrete troughs, other horses and peoples shoulders
Some horse like to chew as something to do because of boredom or a learned habit from stress particularly Tb's. has she got company. Some think that horses learn to chew fences from other horses so are reluctant to share paddocks with a fence chewer or wind sucker.
Has she got access to feed most of the day or is this a stabled horse
A willow branch in the paddock is better than fences.
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She is a TB mare. I only have her for 6 weeks. The owners are overseas at the moment. She's never been ridden. She is in a big paddock. 2.5 acres. She is alone and I think that is where the problem is. She has plenty of grass she also have hard feed in the morning and late afternoon. When we got her 2 weeks ago we did put her with the whiltshire sheep, 2 pregnant ewes. (At her owners place she was with sheep in a paddock.) She chased them around in the paddock so we had to put her in the other paddock. There is no change in her diet, the owner gave her feed that he always give her. Ideally I would love to have another horse with her.
She does not windsuck just chewing pieces out the fence.
Sound like stress from being by herself and boredom no one to horse talk too. A paddock mate would be an idea unless oyu can spend a lot of time with her
Quite often T.B's can have ulcer problems,too,especially if she is not long out of racing.Make sure she has lots of roughage,and maybe a roadcone or ball to play with for boredom.
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I'd give her a nice mineral salt lick to keep her busy and maybe run a hot along the fence so she can't grab it as wood chewing often leads to windsucking. Some hay and a toy to keep her amused may help, can she see other horses where she is?
You could use cribbox or similar but be warned that you need to be very careful with it, make sure you wear gloves!
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