Bucket 'gone off'???

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My horse wouldn't eat his feed on Sat evening. Not worried, as he does that occasionally. Same again Sunday morning.

Sunday evening, put feed in, and he sniffs at food, takes a mouthful and spits it everywhere, waving his head up and down as if its disgusting. Thought that he may think the sugar beet was off (even though the 4 others are chomping away happily) so I got another bucket, put in more nuts and oats, no chaff or s/b, and he muches away happily.

Monday morning, do the same, dry food into old broken bucket and he eats it all. Monday night add, a little s/b and chaff, same scrappy bucket and all food goes.

This morning, food into usual bucket - all left. Scrub the bucket out inside and out, make sure its as clean as it can be, food in tonight - refuses to eat it! Tip food from sparkly clean bucket into cracked, broken pink bucket that hasn't been cleaned - scoffs the lot!!!

He's had his 'normal' bucket for a year, and never made a fuss. Any ideas?
 
Is your new bucket a different colour? Im actually laughing but you never know, perhaps hes secretly a girl and likes pink!
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A friend of mine has a TB who is a bit like this, if you try and feed him in anything other than his purple tub trug he will not even look at it! He is generally a stress head and hates his routine being disrupted in any way at all. We have had similar incidents to yours several times and never manage to find a 'good' reason, we now just accept his quirks!
 
My mare will NOT drink out of the orange B&Q buckets I've got in the lorry. I have to remember to take a black bucket for her to drink out of ast shows
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New Bucket (NB) probably smells all plastic-y and horrible. Old Bucket (OB) smells of stables and feed and security. I'd start by standing OB + feed inside the empty NB for a week or so. NB will gradually start to smell like OB and you can eventually relocate OB to the tip x
 
BOF, the bucket is a year old and he's been eating out of it for all that time! This morning I put his food into neighbours bucket, gobbled everything up, as did neighbour with his!

I conclude the boy is nuts!
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When I get new buckets - like the flexible trug ones - I fill them up with rain water and leave them for a few days in the sunlight. Gets rid of all the smells from the plasticisers and coatings.
 
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