Crib biting/cribbing/wind sucking What do we know? - Sometimes referred to as wind sucking. Wind sucking is when the horse arches the neck and sucks in air. Crib biting aka cribbing is wind sucking whilst holding on to a fixed object. A more scientific term is oral stereotypic behaviour. I will use the term crib biting in my post as an all-encompassing term as this is most commonly seen. - Paleontological evidence suggests that horses have been crib-biting since their domestication in the late P