carrots, how do you feed them?

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yes may seem a silly post but I just chuck them in their dinner whole, always have, probably always will.

I know people who cut them in triangles, cut them in slices etc etc. Heard bad things about them all so I was just wondering, how do you feed carrots? :L
 
I stand at the side of the field and throw them in whole. This ensures they all come up and can be checked. Also this way forage not treats. I keep them whole when in feed buckets.
 
Mine has 2 carrots a day, cut into 4 long strips, to do carrot stretches with.

If she's been extra good, she gets a small apple sometimes.
 
Um, I put them in my pocket. She gets them out. Is this wrong?

My daughter (who is four) throws them over the stable door at the horse as she is not yet tall enough to feed by hand :D is this wrong?

Ideally I would cut them up but a large square bale of hay is currently on top of my carrot slicing knife, which will probably never be seen again. Doesn't seem to have done any harm so far.
 
I feed mine whole. Back in the days before children and lack of time, I used to slice them into strips but they seem to cope just fine without this faff!!!
 
I feed them whole.

The only occasions of choke I have met with carrots are when an owner used to insist on slicing them into rings....

I trust my horse to work out it needs to be bitten!
 
Have always fed them whole. I know the books say you have to slice them lengthways to avoid choke but NEVER had a problem in 40ish years of feeding them whole.
 
nosenseofdirection said:
Um, I put them in my pocket. She gets them out. Is this wrong?

My daughter (who is four) throws them over the stable door at the horse as she is not yet tall enough to feed by hand :D is this wrong?

Ideally I would cut them up but a large square bale of hay is currently on top of my carrot slicing knife, which will probably never be seen again. Doesn't seem to have done any harm so far.
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i also have the problem of having them in my pocket then before long a mouth is in my pocket and they are gone :O lol

and LOVING the bit about throwing them over the stable door :D:D
 
Mine gets them whole in his feed, or I chuck some out whole in the feild so they have to look around for them.

Had a rather scary experience once with a pony choking on a cut up ring of carrot, and having to get vet out to stick a tube down his throat. :rolleyes: not very nice.
 
yup, as all have said, the main thing is not to cut them in circles as it causes choke.
A stud I was on, the owners insisted on feeding this way and had two horses choke. One horse ended up being PTS a week later, when he had a second bout of choke.
The other one, I helped the vet with and it was horrible to see - tube needed.

They still fed circle carrots after this.....
Mine get them whole, lobbed into field/feed.
 
my horse suffers choke frequently and vets have advised not to feed her carrots or apples just in case-nothing wrong with her teeth, she just rushes her food and has to have her feeds like soup! She sometimes gets some by hand when i have bought some ready sliced batons from Sainsburys for sunday lunch! ( Yes i am a lazy mare!!) as they are very thinly sliced.

my daughters pony is 22 and she will hold them and he chomps them whole, he only has them like this by hand though and if he has them in his dinner he has some supermarket batons as i have seen choking far too often and am paranoid!!
 
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