do your horse’s have stockings/presents?

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just for fun…when i was younger, the ponies me & my mum looked after had stockings, as did the owners other horses, on their doors, tinsel round the top of the stable etc. it was a tradition i carried on when i bought my own, they have initial stockings but no tinsel as it would be eaten🤣

my friend at the yard is just as soft as me and bought her pony a personalised one, the rest of them think we’re bonkers!

which camp are you? stockings a no brainer, or are we daft?🤣 bonus points for what goes in them!
 
Her Auntie bought her a stocking with her initial on it for her first Christmas and its pulled out every year. And most years I find treats in it that are just out of date 😂 it's in my boot atm to be washed as she slobbered Christmas eve Guinness all over it last year and obvs i didn't wash it at the time 🤢
 
smolmaus said:
Her Auntie bought her a stocking with her initial on it for her first Christmas and its pulled out every year. And most years I find treats in it that are just out of date 😂 it's in my boot atm to be washed as she slobbered Christmas eve Guinness all over it last year and obvs i didn't wash it at the time 🤢
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guinness is on the list for mine this year! i’ve forgotten the last 2🤣
 
dottylottie said:
guinness is on the list for mine this year! i’ve forgotten the last 2🤣
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It was a friends husband bought it last year and he got the "Guinness Original" which none of them liked, completely wasted 😂 buyer beware! Get the normal, not original!

I cant drink Guinness, I might bring her spiked apple cider this year so at least I can have the leftovers
 
My last riding horse was happy with a santa hat (complete with working bell) and tinsel everywhere, plus gold glitter spray. However if I went near him with tinsel round my hat he freaked out as I wasn't 'me' with tinsel on

All of mine got half a can of guiness in their feed for xmas day and also for new years day.

My WHW pony doesn't get that as it would disrupt her 'wariness' about strange foods too much but she does get a whole bag of carrots over xmas eve, xmas day and boxing day. Plus whatever carrots are left over from my beef stew between xmas and nyday.
 
Always used to do Guinness and they would have a box of sugar lumps wrapped up. They would also get the Christmas peelings all the ones that are okay for them then they used to get ones anyway.

Nowadays, it’s a Christmas card and reindeer ears for a photo and an extra treat or two.
 
He has an advent calander and a stocking on the day. Stocking usually consists of some Christmas pudding flavoured treats, Simple System mint treats, carrots, apples, polo's & ginger biscuits. He also gets a re-stock of tea bags so he has his own supply*

*Yes, he does drink tea from his own mug regularly throughout the year. No it's not weird, thank you very much 🤣

I don't put tinsel on his stable as he'd just eat it but we do numerous tinsel adorned hacks.

All perfectly normal, obvs.
 
They all do including the feral yard card. Stocking, carrots with the tops on, advent calendar and then the Christmas picture with them dressed up in santa hat, reindeer ears and tinsel! Would not be Christmas without it! No doubt they think we bonkers!! 🤣
 
I'm a right softie when it comes to my boys and I always end up buying some treats for them whenever I go to the tack store, so they're pretty well stocked in the treat department aha!

In terms of a stocking, my boys don't have one but I do buy them a Christmas present each. This year they are getting a Likit holder with a bizzy bites flavoured lick so that it lasts a while as Baggs tends to eat the usual Likit licks and has handily (not!) taught Rabbit to do the same thing :rolleyes:

They'll also get a slightly bigger feed with some treats hidden in it for them to find and they'll get a forage block thing from equilibrium to munch on when they are in overnight x

I don't make any drastic changes to their diets as Baggs is prone to ulcers and Rabbit has a sensitive stomach so it's not worth the risk - besides they quite enjoy what they have feed wise, so it makes sense to keep it the same but a slightly bigger portion! x

To be fair I don't tend to go all out with my boys as they get the stuff they need brought for them throughout the year, so that is their Christmas aha 😅
 
I buy carrots, pears, apples, parsnips and polos.
I put the same amount of each in a sandwich bag and gift one to every horse on the yard on Christmas Eve. (Poor man's stocking) 😆😆

This will be the seventh year of doing it.

My horses then also get Guiness but Tal turned his nose up at it last year.
I get a bag of stud muffins that lasts them til summer.
 
Mine gets all the veg peelings for Christmas, they last him at least a week. He loves the outer leaf of a sprout and a parsnip peeling.
 
Well my stables are supposed to be done by Christmas and I have bought some garlands that will be cable tied very thoroughly to the fronts!

I'm also making a wreath for the central pillar.

No stocking but every year they get a bag of carrots and a swede each.

I'm also tempted by the Guinness
 
I just remembered - one of my ponies didn't like Guiness but liked it when I put a tin of Mackeson in her feed. I've been told by OH that the Mackeson is slightly sweeter (I don't drink beer) and she did have a sweet tooth.
 
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