Further silly question about fruit and veg

C gets a hollowed out piece of carrot or parsnip every day with his Prascend inside, R just gets the veg so she doesn't feel left out. Both get a couple of herby treats or a nibble of rose hips or cow parsley on the way to the field as a post ride thank you. They also get a Christmas swinging swede to nibble.
R likes everything she has been offered.
C likes apples, pears, banana skin, carrot and cucumber sticks dipped in houmous, crisps and pot noodles - all fed in very small portions. However his favourite is hawthorn leaves and fruits.
 
Bananas without the peel, satsumas, apples, carrots, pears, parsnips, suedes, watermelon, strawberries, raspberries, etc most fruit without stones actually! Oh and one of mine really likes cucumbers?!
 
Mills used to love a whole swede - I still get sad when I see them on offer and don't have anyone to buy one for now. The others aren't keen.

The Appy likes cereal bars - especially my dark chocolate and peanut one. She does her best begging face until she gets a bit.

Can't eat cheese crisps near the yard cat or he pesters you non stop for some. Quavers are a favourite
 
My lovely old connie won't eat manufactured horse treats but absolutely loves: apples, pears, carrots, parsnips, swede, banana, orange, strawberry, raspberry, blueberry, celery and the very occasional jam tart!
 
The occasional carrot if they’re cheap in the supermarket, bananas/apples if they don’t get eaten quick enough by us, and a swede for Christmas!
In the field they can find cleavers, rosehips, and blackberries. Most of them eat the blackberries but it seems it’s only my Appy who eats the cleavers and rosehips when they’re available!
Edited to add, for horse treats they either get the Horseherbs cubes or bars, or the baileys nuggets. Occasionally they might get some mints!
 
Mine get all my Sunday dinner peelings (except potatoes obvs) so carrots, parsnips, cauliflower leaves, broccoli stalks, cabbage hearts etc. They love swede but I don't so they get my mum's peelings when she remembers. People in work also give me any veg that's on the turn. One person in particular gives me EVERYTHING that's slightly old in her fridge (I've been known to use some of it myself!) I don't like to say no so I end up furiously googling "can horses eat...." I just throw them in their feed in the winter or give them a bucket of peelings in summer. Arch particularly likes Melon, rind and all, and nectarines with the stones removed. Monty loved any fruit - tangerines were his favourite. I still can't look at a tangerine without thinking of him. When he was on box rest we'd hang a swede off a piece of string from the ceiling for him to play with, it kept him occupied for ages.

I bought a celeriac this weekend and had to google whether they can eat it. It seems they can but many don't like it. Those who like it, REALLY like it. I tried Arch with some of the peelings and he nearly ripped my pocket off trying to get more. Wiggy had already gone out by the time I remembered about it so is yet to try it but he doesn't like anything other than carrots, apples and parsnips so I don't think he will. If I put broccoli in his feed he'll remove every last piece (licked clean).

Now that he's retired so can't stop on the way home for cow parlsey buffet, I take Arch out in hand for his fix. It's starting to come through.
 
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We used to breed pigs and feed them rejects from the local green grocers in the area (we gave then a black bin and they chucked stuff into it - which we collected weekly)
I wheelbarrowed the veg waste (not been in a kitchen so all legal) through the horse stables to get to the pigs and so they tried almost everything over the years.
Each individual horse would eat different things in preference. Often things were begged for, bitten into, then spat out !

My old competition horse loved bannan skins - at a ODE I ate the bannan middle and he ate the skin so no bin needed - perfect for out and about !

The brussels stalks after Christmas are a good field toy for mine,
 
Oh I forgot bananas! They are a favourite, skins as well.

A corn on the cob goes down nicely too. My friend gave her horse one and he nibbled it delicately so I tried Bobbi, thinking I could get a cute video of her being polite and ladylike. She took one look then the whole thing was gone in two bites. She stood there with her eyes closed, chewing and drooling bits of corn all over the place, as far from ladylike as you can get! 😂
 
SEL said:
Mills used to love a whole swede - I still get sad when I see them on offer and don't have anyone to buy one for now. The others aren't keen.

The Appy likes cereal bars - especially my dark chocolate and peanut one. She does her best begging face until she gets a bit.

Can't eat cheese crisps near the yard cat or he pesters you non stop for some. Quavers are a favourite
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My late horse loved swedes, until I kindly bought him a 20kg sack of swedes, he quickly decided he did not like swedes, and I gave the rest away!
 
spotty_pony said:
Bananas without the peel, satsumas, apples, carrots, pears, parsnips, suedes, watermelon, strawberries, raspberries, etc most fruit without stones actually! Oh and one of mine really likes cucumbers?!
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I sat last year with a bag of plums and a knife and cut them for bb! What a mug 😂😂😂 he was lapping it up, food on rap. Only used them as a neighbour had given me them 😂
 
Frankie my previous horse stole a peach one time. I was worried about the stone but couldn't get my hand in to get it back. He got all the flesh off, then a scraping sound as he got the last scraps, then spat stone out at me. After that he was allowed whole peaches and plums as I knew he ate around and discarded the stone.
 
Bluey my first pony stole a hot dog off me once. He took me by surprise, whipped it straight out of my hand and wolfed it down before I could get it back. I was terrified he was going to get salmonella poisoning but he lived another 20+ years after that so I guess it did him no harm!
 
Apple's and carrots in evening feed,cow parsley in summer and extra strong mints. My old mare adored Werthers sweets and an occasional doughnut.
 
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