Amused by a new 'cool mix'

[MotherOfChickens]

containing barley (rolled and micronized), maize, peas, molasses, oats and grass pellets. I was always taught that peas and maize were rocket fuel-am I just out of touch? (am not buying it, its a new brand to me so was looking at their stuff). oh, and it tastes of banana (which I get, with both ponies loving a banana)

 

[Lintel]

Hence why I only feed basics.
When you look at the ingredients especially in "laminits safe" feeds it would bowl you over!!

How odd though... Banana :S

 

[ester]

*tries to work out whose it is*

Ok, how strange that 'what it provides' ... tropical flavour of banana is top of the list. What an odd priority!

 

[Tiddlypom]

Of course it's a cool mix, it's 'oat free' ! Plus rocket fuel.

Seriously weird.

 

[Equi]

I keep trying to tell this to a girl who feeds it to her tb thinking it’s sugar free and therefore not blowing his mind. Horse is currently still flying over Co Antrim Somewhere with no intention of coming back to the ground.

 

[Pearlsasinger]

I tried my "never met a calorie she doesn't like" Draft mare with banana - the look on her face was pure disgust!

 

[nikicb]

I tried my "never met a calorie she doesn't like" Draft mare with banana - the look on her face was pure disgust!

I have always secretly wanted a horse that eats bananas, or any vaguely exotic foods, ever since my mother shared a lovely veteran Arab who used to have at least one banana a day. Out of the seven equines I have owned, not one would ever even entertain the idea of a mere scrap of a banana. In fact, as much as they always think they want to eat whatever of my food that I might have in my hand, they usually end up spitting it out in disgust. x

ETA I have recently started my little old chap on Cushcare - he loves it, the first sloppy food he has ever eaten, he licks the bowl clean - it smells like cookies!!

 

[pippixox]

hahaha! I converted to basic separates years ago and never looked back after reading too much about all the filler and dust you are often paying for.
only branded thing I feed is speedi-beet as personally find it works well when only feeding a little for fatties or in high amounts for my old boy in the winter with a load of linseed. I have fed straight rolled oats with no problem for all my variety of horses

they love a bit of marketing! I know someone who buys all the 'conditioning'versions of everything- when basically they just add linseed or oil, but at a much greater cost then doing it yourself

my mare will try and eat your sandwich, crisps, brioche, licked coffee a few times, but never banana

yes I think I had always heard that maize was a no go!

 

[Leam_Carrie]

Banana??? Now I’m going to have to try feeding my horse one.

 

[Nugget La Poneh]

Nugz eats bananas...

...well pretends to. He then spits a beautifully squashed banana back into the same hand that's feeding him something he does want

I've noticed a couple of the 'treat' foods being banana, strawberry or tropical flavoured but hadn't realised it'd moved to compound mixes too!

I'm also horrified at what is considered laminitic friendly now too

Maybe it's cool as in trendy cool

 

[teddypops]

I have always secretly wanted a horse that eats bananas, or any vaguely exotic foods, ever since my mother shared a lovely veteran Arab who used to have at least one banana a day. Out of the seven equines I have owned, not one would ever even entertain the idea of a mere scrap of a banana. In fact, as much as they always think they want to eat whatever of my food that I might have in my hand, they usually end up spitting it out in disgust. x

ETA I have recently started my little old chap on Cushcare - he loves it, the first sloppy food he has ever eaten, he licks the bowl clean - it smells like cookies!!

My ponies all love bananas!😁

 

[MotherOfChickens]

I tried my "never met a calorie she doesn't like" Draft mare with banana - the look on her face was pure disgust!

my ponies love them. one luso only agreed to eat them after seeing a pony eat them, the other luso thought they were of the devil

citrus is another one-they see, to love it and it makes them dribble.

 

[MyBoyChe]

Im almost sure that any sort of mix, is by its very nature, less "cool" than plain old nuts. Something to do with the way the nuts are extruded as opposed to all the cereal and starch that is in a mix? Maybe Im getting muddled but sure I remember a nutrionist telling me that years ago

 

[catroo]

I have always secretly wanted a horse that eats bananas, or any vaguely exotic foods

My herd of shetlands get all sorts of fruit and veg, all eat bananas but some just like the soft bit and others love the skin. One absolutely loves kiwi fruit and would do anything to get one. Nectarines, plums, melons, lemons, limes, any stones are taken out of course.

Summer treat is a whole watermelon, only one has worked out how to open it though. He rolls it to a suitable place then kneels on it with one knee till it splits open, he then takes a wedge and leaves the rest of the herd to it.

 

[nikicb]

My herd of shetlands get all sorts of fruit and veg, all eat bananas but some just like the soft bit and others love the skin. One absolutely loves kiwi fruit and would do anything to get one. Nectarines, plums, melons, lemons, limes, any stones are taken out of course.

Summer treat is a whole watermelon, only one has worked out how to open it though. He rolls it to a suitable place then kneels on it with one knee till it splits open, he then takes a wedge and leaves the rest of the herd to it.

Perhaps I should box my lot down to the local market and see what they choose!!

 

[DabDab]

My herd of shetlands get all sorts of fruit and veg, all eat bananas but some just like the soft bit and others love the skin. One absolutely loves kiwi fruit and would do anything to get one. Nectarines, plums, melons, lemons, limes, any stones are taken out of course.

Summer treat is a whole watermelon, only one has worked out how to open it though. He rolls it to a suitable place then kneels on it with one knee till it splits open, he then takes a wedge and leaves the rest of the herd to it.

That's so cool!
I've never tried to feed any of mine anything exotic, they all love pears and raspberry leaf though. Might have to try them with a melon next summer

Suregrow smells of banana too (but I don't think that's one of their key marketing points)

 

[Sugarplum Furry]

At Priddy fair in Somerset, some years ago, I happened across a bunch of ponies tied to a lorry, all tucking into a huge crate of bananas. They were being looked after by some traveller lads. There was a sort of collective gasp of dismay from the non traveller horsey crowd but honestly those ponies were loving the nanas. They did have haynets full of hay too, it's not as though they were starving....

Back to the subject, MoC, thanks for the heads up on the cool mix, I'm going to be much more aware of what's in my feed sacks next time I buy any hard feed. Good call.

 

[criso]

I think they did some tests on flavours and bananas scored quite highly with horses. Mine love bananas, including the skin. Frankie loves all fruit, peaches he puts the whole thing in his mouth, sucks and scrapes the stone until he gets all the fruit off, then comes back and spits the clean stone into my hand. I found this out by accident when he stole a peach. He also helped himself to a pear that was in a cloth bag. As he couldn't open the bag, he sucked/chewed the pear through the cloth making a horrible mess, ruining the bag and covering my belongs (purse, keys, etc) in chewed pear.

Overheard my ym today telling another livery all these feeds are the same. She thinks i'm mad with my carefully chosen sugar free options and minerals.

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

containing barley (rolled and micronized), maize, peas, molasses, oats and grass pellets. I was always taught that peas and maize were rocket fuel-am I just out of touch? (am not buying it, its a new brand to me so was looking at their stuff). oh, and it tastes of banana (which I get, with both ponies loving a banana)

Barley - Maize and peas are not only weight adding they are as you said energy giving too. My old mare had this as she needed the weight and the energy and it was before all the new feeds.https://www.ultimatehorseandrider.co.uk/product/d-h-mixed-flakes-15-kg/

My gelding loves bananas so did his mum

 

[Fjord]

My mare loves bananas too!

It's surprising how much suga there is in a lot of lamininitic friendly feed. I've just started feeding Pink Mash, I add a balancer and joint supplements and Top Chop Zero. It all gets eaten!

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

My mare loves bananas too!

It's surprising how much suga there is in a lot of lamininitic friendly feed. I've just started feeding Pink Mash, I add a balancer and joint supplements and Top Chop Zero. It all gets eaten!

I use hot/warm water and it is ready in seconds and the boy looooves it. The pony cannot have it as I think she was sensitive to it and caused her condition IBD.

 

[eventer and proud]

I have always secretly wanted a horse that eats bananas, or any vaguely exotic foods, ever since my mother shared a lovely veteran Arab who used to have at least one banana a day. Out of the seven equines I have owned, not one would ever even entertain the idea of a mere scrap of a banana.
Mine love WATERMELON

 

[Leo Walker]

Summer treat is a whole watermelon, only one has worked out how to open it though. He rolls it to a suitable place then kneels on it with one knee till it splits open, he then takes a wedge and leaves the rest of the herd to it.

Ooh, I've got a slightly soft watermelon in the fridge. I'll take Leo it tomorrow and see what he thinks!

 

[Chinchilla]

My mares are like most teenage boys. Any fruit or veg they hate. Unless the 'cherry' in cherry diet pepsi counts :lol: in which case now you are talking
Although if you've fed this feed mix actually, you are probably screaming as your horse tanks off into the sunset with you...¯\_(&#12484_/¯

 

[respectedpony driver]

Banana??? Now I’m going to have to try feeding my horse one.

Me too.I think we all ought to and then tell everyone the verdict.Jazz likes ginger biscuits best xx

 

[Peregrine Falcon]

I have two that love bananas! Mare and her 2yo filly.

Moved away from mixes many years ago as vile, sticky messes. Unmolassed chaff, grass nuts and micronised linseed are all mine get if required.

 

[rascal]

A horse we used to have, loved lilt pop and would even hold his (plastic never glass) bottle and drink from it, wish we had it on film.
ours all love banana, they also like mango, pear and parsnip.

 

[Shay]

Most of mine like bananas - but coblet has to have his peeled. Watermelon was successful too in the summer.

Found the original mix that started this thread. 11.4MjKg digestible energy..... In fairness it doesn't say it is sugar free - which it very much isn't. Only that it is oat free. But for horses in light / medium work. Performance mixes offer similar energy levels! Same Company's "Super cool" mix is 11.1 MjKg and still full of molasses, maize etc. But it is black cherry flavoured. Good grief!

 

[Red-1]

I used to give all sorts of fruit, but became wary when I fond that some fruit is bad for dogs - mainly raisins. At the time we grew grapes and when we came back from a ride Sherlock, Charlie and Jay Man would have a bunch of grapes picked for them. Sherlock in particular loved them. He looked like a Roman nobleman, relaxing in bed whilst plucking grapes from the stem.

I never thought of them being harmful, but don't feed anything that is not actual horse food or carrots now in case it is harmful!

Not that it ever seemed to do them any harm...

 

[meleeka]

My mare loves bananas too!

It's surprising how much suga there is in a lot of lamininitic friendly feed. I've just started feeding Pink Mash, I add a balancer and joint supplements and Top Chop Zero. It all gets eaten!

My Cushings mare wouldn’t eat pink mash at all, which is a shame as I liked the idea of it. Actually she’s probably a lot like me in that she’s only interested In junk food

She’s currently eating a bit of Sixteen Plus mix which is hugely embarrassing for me, but is better than her looking like a rescue case.