Do your horses like eating 'human' food?

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My horse, Dela, never used to eat 'human' food -at all. Then, at competitions (the only time we buy nice drinks) she started to like having some fanta (fruit twist, not orange) from my hand & she seems to like everything now.

I now take over a biscuit (whichever ones we have in) for her occasionally & she LOVES them. Today she gobbled up her custard cream like she was starved :p I've only tried her with custard creams, bourbon creams & ginger biscuits, but she loves them!

Please note: I don't feed her them often, probably 2 buscuits a week if that.

Do your horses eat human food?
 
my 1st pony used to LOVE chicken and mushroom pot noodle :D lool

i only discovered this when i was a kid and she snatched my pot noodle in her teeth, tipped it up and started slurping it!

she also liked tea and custard creams lol
 
I won't give my horses human food, but I used to have a mare who's previous owner fed her custard creams and millions (those little chewy tiny sweeties).
A couple of people on our yard feed their horses the odd slice of bread now and again.
My trainer gave my lad a sour cola bottle the other day and he loved it, but he just got the one :)
 
I have yet to find anything my horse won't eat (I obviously wouldn't give him anything non-veggie - I'm veggie myself). You can't leave any drinks cans/bottles or even mugs around the yard as he will finish them off.

He's a little monster at shows for nicking ice creams from children...
 
Aww :) Our little 11.3hh can drink anything, from any container (including champagne from a champagne glass) - that's not often either btw, he's not an alcoholic ;)

My old pony used to enjoy stealing your sandwich when you were eating it :p
 
Yes mine loves most fizzy juice can open a little bottle and she will put her mouth round it lift her head and let me tip a little in at a time. Shes not so keen on food food but my old boy used to love crisps of most flavours.
 
My pony whisked a sandwich frommy hand earlier in the year at a show and fanta. My first pony used to love mars bars. Other than bananaas, I haven't yet found anything she won't eat.

My friend's horse loves popping candy.
 
My little 13hh boy loves anything you give him, may have something to do with us growing up together and me encouraging it.....

When I used to do PC rallies and shows with him as a kid I used to share sandwiches, even burgers with him (how gross but I'd take a bite, he'd take a bite, I'd take a bite, I kid you not!!) :-o .....he's now happy in his retirement and if I am ever munching around the yard he comes over and brings on the puppy dog eyes so I will give him a crisp or a little bit of crust but try to be more restrained now I'm old enough to know better!
 
jelly tots and chocolate chip biscuits are a favourite with mine! however he did not like salt and vinegar or ready salted crisps....
 
My 14.2hh always has a bottle of ginger beer for christmas. He LOVES it, will drink it out the bottle but prefers it if you put some in a bucket for him so he can dribble and slurp on his own.
 
My mare will eat lots of human foods but she doesn't like bananas. Her favourites are biscuits and doughnuts - she only gets human food as a treat when the farrier is there.
I used to have a pony who liked peaches and another horse who liked drinking coke out of a can.
 
JanetGeorge said:
How MEAN!! My No. 1 horse LIVES for chocolate biscuits - if he didn't get at least 3 a day he'd call the RSPCA!:D
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Haha, I only put it so people wouldn't shout at me for 'abusing' my horse, saying I would kill her or something :o She made me laugh today... Normally she'll sniff it, take a tiny bite, then take the rest. Today she never even smelt it, just went straight in and gobbled it all up :rolleyes:
 
Both of my mares like Love Hearts. One of them likes Maltesers and Lucozade sport but only the orange flavour! I havent tried anything else
 
natalia said:
My 14.2hh always has a bottle of ginger beer for christmas. He LOVES it, will drink it out the bottle but prefers it if you put some in a bucket for him so he can dribble and slurp on his own.
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My gelding loves ginger beer too! At least now I know he isn't the only one :) he loves drinking it out of the can though. If ginger beer isn't available cloudy lemonade will do just fine. This reminds me that I haven't tried my mare with any of these *note to self as soon as I get home buy ginger beer for mistic mare* :p
 
My elderly Cleveland Bay mare stood on the Rare Breeds all day once and was totally spolit when people kept giving her polos and usualy horsey treats. We had to wait for the end of the day before we could take her home and after the show had finished, the trade stand next to us lit up their barbecue and put a row of sausages on.

I watched in complete disbelief as Clippy quietly leaned forward and gently nibbled a sausage. She smiled, leaned forward and took another, again ever so gently. She took a complete row of sausages ranging from raw to burned and her smile got broader and broader. The look on the stand holder's face was an absolute picture when he came back to turn the sausages and there weren't any there!
 
Cookies, jammie dodgers, and choc digestives. He has been known to have a slurp of lucozade too.

My sister's pony loves chocolate flapjack :D
 
My oldie used to get a mouthful of boost bar (buscuit flavour please), 7up and the odd salt and vinegar disco crisp many moons ago and loved them!!! It would only be once in a while, but he's now 32 so it can't have done him too much harm!! He doesn't get anything like that anymore - now mum's a grown-up - boring!!! :D

My young'un has clearly never had anything out of the ordinary before but when he does get something new (e.g. marmite sandwiches for keeping flies away this summer) he nods and nods and nods for ages! Quite funny. The other day we had a picnic lunch up at the stables and gave him a bite of something (can't remember what) and got the same response.
 
Tom will eat or try to eat anything you're eating or drinking... this includes tuna mayo sarnies, bacon butties, marmite on toast, tea, coffee, beer, sloe gin, raspberry vodka, coke, fanta, sprite, chips (with or without sauce), the list goes on... :)

Ron on the other hand is only interested if it smells minty or appley. :rolleyes:

ETA - we don't actively feed them treats, it's only when we're out somewhere and picnicing that Tom tries!
 
I offered the Diva some hoola hoops once and she thoroughly enjoyed them . I would be so concerned if it were ready salted but it was beef variety :-$ Didnt go down that route again !
 
Lacey likes digestive biscuits - discovered that when she stole one of my friend!

She also like orange/apple juice and will suck it through the straw - discovered that when I left a carton near her.
Also likes the taste of ribena - found out when she dunked her tongue into my cup!
 
dressage-diva said:
my 1st pony used to LOVE chicken and mushroom pot noodle :D lool

i only discovered this when i was a kid and she snatched my pot noodle in her teeth, tipped it up and started slurping it!

she also liked tea and custard creams lol
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OMG my old horse loves chicken and mushroom pot noodle, though his buiscuit of choice is a ginger...;) h can also tell the difference between cadbrurys and nestle, h wont eat nestle and loves cadburys!!
 
Captain loves ginger biscuits, salted crisps and tango which he will steal given half a chance! But his favourite human food in the world is Kendal mint cake, he has the tiniest bit occasionally after his bucket. The rest of the yard refer to it as his after dinner mint!

Fany will love you forever for a polo or a parsnip other than that she does not get human food as she is a big girl who has to watch her weight.

FDC
 
Woody's favourite is crisps, any variety, not fussy, but then anything will do really! Especially if it's stolen from a human!

In the summer, when the flies make their eyes swell, we bathe the horses eyes with cold tea. I put a pot of tea brewing on the side, turned around to find not only was there no tea left be he was chewing on the tea bag too!

But then this is the horse that has eaten coins, gloves, bailer twine.... luckily it all goes straight through!
 
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