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cases the stomach and bowels are so inflated with wind as to 

 cause a severe case of colic or indigestion, while in other 

 cases there is simply a hanging onto the manger with the 

 teeth. 



Fig. 7.— A Crib Sucker. 



Treatment. — When first noticed it is best to put the 

 cribber or windsucker into a box stall, feed him his hay off 

 the floor and his grain from a pail or box which should be 

 removed as soon as he is done eating, so that there is nothing 

 to grasp with the teeth. 



Examine the teeth to see if there be anything wrong 

 with them. If sharp, causing soreness, file them down. If a 

 milk tooth not properly shed, remove it. Turning out to 

 pasture in the spring when the grass is good will often cure 

 this habit. If the animal is old and has been a cribber for 



