Instructions
Limit your horse's access to forage and feeds that are high in potassium. hyperkalemic periodic paralysis (HYPP) is a disorder that causes horses to have too much potassium in the bloodstream. By limiting your horse's potassium intake, you can greatly reduce the chances of having an HYPP flare-up.
Consult your veterinarian about medications that increase potassium secretion or otherwise assist in managing HYPP.
Remove objects and structures that your horse can use to crib. Cribbing is a vice that horses develop where they latch onto a piece of wood (normally) and suck air. It can destroy wooden fences, trees and barn buildings. Installing wire fences with metal posts and metal buildings can reduce the likelihood of your horse finding anything he can use to crib.
Purchase a cribbing collar and put it on your horse. The more difficult you make it for your horse to crib, the less likely he is to do so. The combination of having few objects to crib on with the difficulty of trying to crib with a cribbing collar will keep your horse from cribbing or at least limit the habit.
How to Care for a Horse With HYPP Plus a Cribber
Caring for a horse that requires special circumstances can be difficult. Fortunately neither HYPP nor cribbing are a serious enough issue to significantly affect the quality of living for most horses, especially when the conditions are properly controlled. Caring for a horse with either or both of these issues requires extra planning for the average horse owner, as many of the problems that are associated with these conditions can be reduced or eliminated.