Carrots are officially my enemy!

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I am officially anti carrot! (Just for my horse of course) have posted god knows how many posts about his strange behaviour and this morning I think I got to the source!

Arrive up the yard to find my helper giving him a bucket full of carrots, yes literally like 8,9 BIG carrots in here. So I am guessing he gives this morning and night so that is 6 buckets of carrots my horse has been secretly having a week. Nearly 55 carrots. plus i usually give him one in his feed at night and occasionally one or two on his hay.

Investigated further by posting about peoples experiences with carrots making horses fizzy and walar! literally every post but one says that they do. And I am not surprised in this quantity.

So my boy is going on a detox! no more carrots! think this combined with the individual turnout is the reason for my usually calm lovely horse (i wont get started on descriptive adjectives on how lovely i think my horse is or you wont make it to the end :D) turning into a bit of a nervy nut job.

So, hes moving yards on sunday to be back out in the herd with his old mates and his carrot detox starts today. hoping for my horse back soon! :)

Bit of a pointless post but quite happy, looking forward to the move and getting him back with his mates and easing my guilt for moving him in the first place :rolleyes:
 
My last boy used to come out with his eyes on stalks like someone had pumped him full of red bull in the night if he ate a single carrot, carrots were rocket fuel for him and I wont bother giving my new boy any!
 
I was chatting to my YO yesterday about your previous post - I said that I don't think they make any difference to H. She said that some horses can't have any at all and others don't seem affected. I'm glad H is one of the latter!! She also pointed out that the vet will say 'no carrots' if the horse has lami, or needs to loose weight. Let us know what effect the 'detox' has - I would be interested :D
 
MrsHutt said:
I was chatting to my YO yesterday about your previous post - I said that I don't think they make any difference to H. She said that some horses can't have any at all and others don't seem affected. I'm glad H is one of the latter!! She also pointed out that the vet will say 'no carrots' if the horse has lami, or needs to loose weight. Let us know what effect the 'detox' has - I would be interested :D
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It really sparked my interest seeing peoples reply as I have never had a problem before! (But never really fed this particular horse carrots in excess... dont think hes an extreme case where he has one carrot and explodes but i think the combination of the over dosing of carrots and the individual turnout has messed his little head up a bit bles him

I will post after the detox and let every one know how it goes :D
 
Well its worth a try! I only give mine one or two chopped up every now and then but she is prone to being a bit stressy (she's awfully ploddy and backward thinking, she could at least get energetic!) And as she is on a public path I am wondering how many extras she might be getting!

There is a woman who goes to feed the ponies round the corner who turns up in her pyjamas to feed a VERY overweight pony a carrrier bag full of big carrots, it makes me cringe so bad. As soon as I ever meet the owners I will mention it but she says she knows them so I don't really want to interfere. She is also obviously a bit 'vulnerable' and I wouldn't be sure how to put it. I am thinking I could tell her to collect nettles for it then it would actually be good for it?!

Anyway I digress, hopefully carrots are the key and your horse goes back to normal :-)
 
My lovely mare used to act like a small child who'd had far too many E-numbers if given a carrot...... that was 9 years ago.... she spent 7 years carrot free and turned into a lovely sensible (albeit still chestnut) mare.

A few years ago we tried her back on carrots.... and to our amazement she seems to have grown out of the issue! She's now back to happily munching carrots, and still behaving.

Maybe as your boy gets older he'll be able to have carrots again - although maybe not in quite the quantity he has been!!!!! :)
 
Mine are all backwards whatever you give them... carrots, sugarbeet, lovely smelling mollichaff :o

But give littlun a small spoon of micronised linseed in feed for a few days and she's bouncing off the fences :rolleyes: They're funny creatures.
 
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