Are Apples and Carrots a part of your horses daily diet?

I don't feed them very often - they had some apples recently as my parents had a lot of windfalls! As they are mostly grass-kept, I reckon they get plenty of succulent food from the grass!
 
I hand feed them as treats, but can never be bothered to chop them up and add them to her feeds! She gets a couple of carrots a day and the odd apple/pear (she loves pears!), she makes really cute noises when she knows you have goodies on you!
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Yep, carrots in the morning, apples in the evening feeds and as a bonus some carrots to find in the overnight hay net
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T loves carrots and juicy apples and as in general I don't feed treats by hand, I like to give him some in a feed. In the summer as he only gets hard feed if he's in for a show or if he's worked hard but giving him a handful of chaff and a couple of carrots makes him think he's had something, so he's happy with that! I give him a small bit of carrot when I catch and one when I turn out too.
 
No, sounds cruel but they dont get apples or carrots very often & never in feeds. Well maybe occasionally if i have some carrots in & it's Christmas morning.
 
My boy gets a couple or three full carrots in his feed cause he likes to bite into them. He loves apples and gets them from time to time but I have to be careful as they seem to go through him and cause a bit of ring sting !!
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The cook in our work canteen makes soup for about 30 people daily so she give me all her carrot & neep peelings for b. He gets a BIG handful in his feed daily & 2 whole carrots (in his bucket, not by hand) every evening after his tea and a herbal treat at the gate. He's fit, happy and healthy and has good teeth and - Yes he is spoilt!

Although he never ever bites or mooches. If he did, he wouldn't get anything.

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Ditto.

I was buying apples for years and then discovered last week I had a massive apple tree groaning with juicy red apples on my land. Ah well will teach me to open my eyes.
 
At the moment I have 5 apple trees in my back garden that are groaning with apples so my horses are getting loads (probably more than they should!). Even when they are finished I normally buy carrots or apples. So yes I do.
 
Ellie gets apples and carrots on a daily basis - mostly as treats as I pass her stable. I sometimes chop it up to put in a bran mash in the winter too
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Pickle gets them occastionaly, unless the yard (who supplies feed) buys carrots in bulk which they sometimes do when there are batches of strange shaped/looking carrots that supermarkets wont take!!
 
Betty gets an apple or carrot (whatever I've bought that week) when I turn her out, and when i go to bring her in she gets an apple or carrot as well.. Yip I am soft.. however she can sometimes be a bugger going in and out so if she's naughty then she gets no treat! I think she is starting to learn....

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I give a few of them as a kind of consolation in my mini and podgy mares' feed bucket when my gelding gets a feed.For grass kept mega -doers like 2 of my 3 they make a nice change seeing as they don't get hard feed unless they need it in the depths of winter.
 
Yes- because feeds look brown and boring without them....also, i give carrots/apples to the little fatty instead of a feed, but at the same time the others get fed so she doesnt think she's missing out. I give them a mint when i turn them out- they stand and wait for it, and a treat when i leave the yard. I'm soft, but OH is worse....
 
I am given a tub of sliced carrots every morning, so mine get a few slices each every day - in feed buckets, but not necessarily with a feed (they don't need any)
 
I give carrots cut up twice a day in feeds and one apple, I buy a sack of carrots for £1.75 each week so there are lots to give, I did worry once when someone mentioned they had the same effect as oats which worried me or too much keretin, but when i didnt use them there was no difference in performance or behaviour, so carried on, I always use a nice long carrot to catch as thats the only way I can get near my mare. She's also a fussy eater so i am sure it helps.
 
Both mine get chopped carrots every day morning and night feeds and the odd apple when there is some left at home after I`ve been shopping and got fresh ones.
 
In the winter I get free carrots from a farmer - the bent and crooked non-eu regulation carrots get thrown out. My dogs love them as well.
 
i used to feed an apple daily in feed when i happened to have them.

however i dont now. i suppose they should be treats really - if i put an apple sliced in her feed, i wouldnt give her any treats. And the times i gave apples she wasnt on hard feed so in my head it sort of balanced out if that makes sense!!
 
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