Does your horse have any odd eating habits?

[LauraBR]

Mine does!

I give him his feed and the first mouthful he takes he literally opens his mouth as wide as possible and takes the biggest mouthful physically possible- struggles with it for a few seconds then realises he can't actually chew because it is too much so drops half of it. Every time.

The other thing he does with his feed is when he finishes he rolls his tongue in his mouth and then slurps REALLY loudly sucking on his own backwards folded tongue (presumably to get every last bit out of his teeth???). VERY odd.

VERY odd.

Wondering whether any of yours have any amusingly odd habits like that?

 

[pottamus]

Mine growls as he is eating his tea bucket...he only gets hi fi lite and a supplement but you would think he was tucking into a huge bowls of luxury mix and veg!!! He also scrapes his tongue afterwards on the edge of anything he can find and stands licking to get the flavour off!!!

 

[dieseldog]

We used to have a pony that when you fed her out of a bucket got down and rolled while she was eating.

I also had a mare that if I put the bucket too close to the wall she used to grab it with her teeth and put it in the right place in the stable before she started eating.

 

[Irishcobs]

Mine rolls with her head still in her food bowl, half way through eating it. She always does. Gave me a heart attack the first time, I thought she had dropped dead.
I still worry she is going to get colic from doing it, but *touches wood* hasn't yet and she's being do it every day for 2 years.

 

[vicijp]

Mine all ahve the slot-into-tyre feed bowls, but with no tyres.
The Cheekster likes to tap the rim of his as he is eating with his foot. Then when he is finished he turns it over and scrapes the bottom, and grinds his teeth around the rim.
Doesnt really start to annoy me until I can hear him doing it in the middle of the night!

 

[sleepingdragon10]

Luke always waves a foreleg whilst he's eating, plus after every mouthful he'll bite the side of his feed bucket.....when you go to pick it up once he's finished the handles are usually covered in sloppy fibrebeet

 

[LauraBR]

lmao, you all make Sam sound normal.

The rolling whilst eating ones are especially odd LOL!!!

 

[ruscara]

Marius does exactly the same as Sam does with the first mouthful - opens his mouth as wide as possible, gets as much food in it as he can, and then spits half of it on the stable floor. Then, when he has finished his bowlful, he hoovers up what is on the floor.

He doesn't do the slurping thing, though!

 

[harvgj19]

Harv always picked up his rubber bowls by the handles, once he was finished, and lobbed them over his stable door. Then he would hoover up all the bits off the floor.

If you shut his top door ever (like in the winter when really cold or during bad weather) and he couldn't lob it out, he would leave a great big poo in it for you to find in the morning!!!

 

[Seahorse]

My last horse used to have a corner manger and he would get a bit bit of feed on the side of his nose and flick it out! If you were'nt careful you'd be covered in feed.
The chickens would then go into his stable to eat the feed off the floor and he would get really angry with them and try and chase them away.

I found this quite amusing then got annoyed with him when I started giving him Blue Chip.
Needless to say we had the shiniest fattest chickens in the area

 

[Christmas_Kate]

ours holds his down by putting his foot inside, and eating round his hoof.

 

[missshell]

A yard i used to go to the YO horse used to finish his food then pick the bucket up and launch it over the stable door.

Hinting...never!!!

 

[WFL]

Mine hates chips, but loves his meat pies and gravy. He prefers chinese or thai to indian.

 

[LauraBR]

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Mine hates chips, but loves his meat pies and gravy. He prefers chinese or thai to indian.

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He has good taste, I prefer chinese or thai to indian too

 

[Fiona_C]

Bud waves a foreleg around whilst eating and will swap/change accordingly.

Also licks the bucket out then stands and licks your hands just to make sure you aren't hiding any feed

 

[harrihjc]

Flash dances around waving his forelegs in the air, he gets so frantic and then tries to lift back legs too and sometimes falls over. He takes the biggest mouthful ever then 'throws' it everywhere in his excitement. He launches the bowl out of his stable when he's finished

 

[haybales]

i was always told that waving a foreleg whilst eating is a sign of stress/anxiety?

 

[faerie666]

Robbie is pretty normal whilst eating, but he does have some strange tastes though. He likes eating the prickly flowers on the thistles in his field. He very gently bites them of with his front teeth, them uses his tongue to carefully roll them between his back teeth so he can crunch them. The look of concentration on his face during step one and two is priceless, they must taste really nice to be worth the effort.

 

[Solstar]

apparantly waving a foreleg when eating is a habit that dates back from when horses were wild, because they ate on the move. it is meant to be a form of frustration cos todays horses dont really eat on the move.

 

[Blizzard]

Beau gets fed in a corner manger, and always lifts his front left leg up, usually kneeing the feed bowl half way out of the manger. he does it quite a few times!

If I feed him on the floor he tips it all out of the bucket then eats it, whch is why I dont feed him from the floor!