Bananas

[dawnpetenathshir]

Does anyone else have a horse that is crazy about bananas? Mine loves them, the squishier the better and he'll eat the skin as well when he can!

 

[Mollymillymoo]

lol coco refuses to eat bananas, I offered him a bit of mine everyday last summer and everyday he would snif it and scrunch his nose up and carry on with his hay

but that's so cute! make a video of it

 

[Donkeymad]

Yes, all of mine do. Skins and all

 

[Gentle_Warrior]

same here, skin and all, even a label by mistake once ...... oops

 

[sueandtoto]

Yep Toto can smell one a mile off!, he likes them really mushy (yuk), he once ate a whole bunch that I had accidently left where we tie him up

 

[dawnpetenathshir]

We wondered if it was a coloured thing as my friends coloured cob loves them as well but none of the others in the yard do and none of them are coloureds.

 

[Three]

My mare does but neither of the boys will touch them! Millie is bay so that might blow the coloured theory out of the water!

A word of warning on the skins though. I was told that, because they are porous, they absorb any pesticides, chemicals etc that the fruit or surrounding areas have been treated with. Millie now has them peeled - unless she reaches the bunch before I do!!

 

[nemlin]

In the style of the churchill dog...

Oh Yes!

Horsey loves them!

 

[christi]

my coloured cob would kill for a banana !
she loves them

 

[Bananaman]

Now where do you think my username comes from?

On the other hand don't answer that!

Yes, Henry, my gelding, loved them.

 

[hadfos]

Mine is such a pig,will try anything,however....since trying a bannana last summer and getting it stuck to the roof of his mouth he declines when offered these days,lol!!Was blooming funny to watch though!!

 

[Mooch]

My Jerry loves them.

They have got to be his fav treat.

Millie wouldn't touch them when I first got her. So I used to put them in her food to slow her eating down.

That didn't last long though and she will quite happily munch through them now!

 

[melliebobs]

I read somewhere horses prefer them to garlic and carrots!

 

[sugarnspice]

Cinnamon loves them

, he'll usually eat the skin as well, except for once when he ate it off the box, managed to squeeze out the banana and then threw the skin at me (lush).

He usually slobbers all over my hand once has had a banana, doubley yummy for me

 

[arwenplusone]

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I read somewhere horses prefer them to garlic and carrots!

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There was some research done (source escapes me) into flavours for horses and above all bananas came out as most preferred!

 

[PaintboxEDT]

the banana men !! he he

havnt tried earl with them yet,he eats everything i will try him with one and see what he thinks,if he likes them then we will have to grow a banana tree in the paddock !! lol

 

[malibu211211]

Neither of mine will eat them

Although I have found that Donnegan does have an addiction for Maoam Stripes (the chewy sweets

) Not that I would feed him them, of course

 

[Bananarama]

Never givien them to my pony, but considering he eats everything including my phone

Im sure he would love them. Know a horsey that goes hyper on them

But on strange foods my pony LOVES irnbru straight out the bottle. The kids at the stables all would give him the last bit in the bottle

Bad for the teeth and god knows what else !!

 

[merlinsquest]

Merlin wont touch them. Its the only fruit/veg he has ever refused!!!!!!

 

[ajf]

Had a pony when younger on loan and was told he needed to be fed a whole banana once a week due to potassium or something like that!!! Every since all ours eat the skins, they generally are as keen on the actual flesh in my experience!!!! But mine hate black or green ones, gotta be just right for them!!!

 

[Law]

Mine eats them including the skin, it comes from showing in the summer when I eat them a lot! Horse thinks if mum eats it then it must be for Darcies too!

He eats satsumas too!

 

[Chumsmum]

Chum loves them, Shetlands don't.

Didn't know they could eat the skin too, I've been peeling them for His Majesty

 

[AandK]

Andy always asks for some if i am eating one but always he spits it out.!!!

 

[KatB]

Godfrey will eat all of it. He goes mad for them

 

[NeilM]

My wife's Chesnut New Forest mare will mow you down for bananas, with or without skins, and she really likes to be hand fed squishy bits...YUK!

Our NF gelding hates them, and it is really funny seeing him eating around pieces in his bucket. He also ate half of a whole unpeeled one (they had one each) and turfed the other half out of his bucket with his nose in disgust, the look he gave it, you would have sworn he thought I was trying to poison him (which made me laugh).

 

[Spot_the_Risk]

Mine loves them, introduced the foal to them and she's pretty keen too! Also grapes, and the best ever, a whole pineapple, held the stalk and he ate the lot, I was covered in juice!

 

[dawnpetenathshir]

OOH must try pineapple, he likes nectarines and peaches. In fact practically anything he thinks may be edible even if it isnt

 

[ladyt25]

I am going to try mine on bananas now after reading this - will be interested to see their reactions!