Giving a horse beer!

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Hello,
Was reading a book yeaterday bout horse and rider fitness and noticed one of the things it said was when a horse was bit down beer was used a pick me up. This got me interested as my cob is lookin rather fed up just now but does he get a whole can? a bootle? a shot? and what kind of beer? has anyone given thier horse beer? thanks. just wondered before i get up getting spoken about for having drunk horse and rider
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I buy all the horses up the yard a can of guiness for xmas pressies lol. I think a can lasts for about 3 feeds. The horses love it x.
 
I remember, years ago, hacking in the summer and stopping at the pub on the way back for a beer. The horses always used to take a good slurp from our pints. One of them even liked having a nibble of a pork pie! Bizarre but true.
 
Stout or guiness. Fudge, an elderly 15.2hh cob used to enjoy a whole bottle in his dinner at least once a week if I remember correctly.
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Oh this brings back lovely memories. Where I used to live we had a little old village pub and every lunch time "the Colonel" used to turn up on his big old horse Bartholomew. The Colonel would disappear inside for a few drinks and Bartholomew would stand with his head just inside the pub doorway and have a couple of pints out of a washing up bowl. At closing time the Colonel would remount and they would wander gently home again. Talking to Bartholomew after he'd had his drink was always a bit risky, he'd give you big beery kisses!
 
YO gives a Guinness if horse is under the weather. Not done it myself but wouldnt be impartial if I thought would do any good.
 
we used to drive to the local pub on hot days & Bon would get the contense of the slops tray. she was a classy lass though, none if this larger stuff gotta be real ale (the darker the better) pint each for us then drive home.
they also get 1/2 a pint xmas day too & my old boy adored Guiness or hobgoblin.
 
All of the hunters and racehorses used to get a bottle a week. Stout (Mackesson's?) and Guinness contain iron and B12 type things so are as good a pick me up as Red Cell. If they need extra weight on too then give an egg as well.
 
I've used guniess in MILD cases of colic. It's an old old remedy that the farmers and grooms from years back used to use. And, it works! Not if the horse is rolling about in abject agony, but if just sort of stampy and looking at belly type mild.
Always worth keeping a few cans to hand for that reason. Obviously if you had any doubts, call the vet but this has been used in my family for years with success.
 
Many years ago I used to work at the National Temperance Hospital which had been set up as one of the first 'dry' hospitals. Lots of the elderly patients were prescribed Guinness as a ‘tonic’ on their drug charts! It was great giving out heart tables, pain killers and Guinness on the drug round. I didn't know it worked for horses.
 
They use put guiness in racehorses food to give them a boost many years ago, also a milk stout to help build them up, my old skewbald loved it, but I did make a bottle last two days, not sure if you can buy it anymore.
 
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I give mine Guiness for Christmas!!
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They have a can on Christmas Day and one on Boxing Day - just pour it over their feed and they shovel it down!
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who does that
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mind you my hubby says it's a waste on them, he's just jealous i don't give it to him
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My guys like a Sweetheart Stout every now and then as a treat mixed in wiht their soaked beet. I have a friend who has a clydesdale and his party trick is to upend a bottle of guinness and drink it down!

Won;t do them any harm - but not advised for sugar sensitive or laminitics of course. Lots of good things in beer

Beer is proof that God loves usand wants us to be happy
 
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Oh this brings back lovely memories. Where I used to live we had a little old village pub and every lunch time "the Colonel" used to turn up on his big old horse Bartholomew. The Colonel would disappear inside for a few drinks and Bartholomew would stand with his head just inside the pub doorway and have a couple of pints out of a washing up bowl. At closing time the Colonel would remount and they would wander gently home again. Talking to Bartholomew after he'd had his drink was always a bit risky, he'd give you big beery kisses!

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What a lovely story - of days gone by - and sadly, never to be seen again with all these half-wits and 'Elf & Safety lurking.
We always used to put beer in our hunters' and pointers' feed.
Daddy used to go down the pub and collect the "slops" from the drip trays in a bucket.
Real Beer - NOT Lager!
For special treats, we bought the Black Irish Stuff - yum, yum.
Absolutely wonderful for putting a shine on coats.
 
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy

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Amen to that!

My horse has a can of guiness christmas day. He also used to have a mince pie, but have stopped that due to his diet.
 
I remember doing a pub ride and fred drank my lager and lime
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just before i had jack 7yrs ago hubby was in field with me and hads chased him round the field for his bottle of beer,i pmsl
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guiness and stout good for horses in hard work,alot of showjumpers give their horses it
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,my lad gets guiness at xmas as a treat
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My vet actually reccomends guinnes for horses who are tucked up - and my friends doctor told her to have a can of guinness after giving birth!

It's actually really good for you (in small doses obv), lots of iron.
 
One of our old vets recomended beer for one of ours on box rest, she hated the stable, and would have paddys
She had 1 beer twice a day, and it certianly took the edge of her behaviour.
The strange thing is the mare had clearly been given beer before, as with just the wiff of beer, she went bonkers, desperate for her feeds, once off box rest she didnt like her feed anymore.
 
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