Have you ever heard of anyone feeding their horses kibble dog food?

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I think maybe she wants to go down in history as the woman who owned the first horse with "Mad Horse Disease".
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No, but a friend has two house rabbits that eat their fill of dog biscuits when the dogs are fed, have done twice a day for years
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not dog food, but a local riding school/competition yard near me feeds cow feed as it has nearly the same ingredients and nutrinal value as horse food but loads cheaper

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Well that is not that big of a deal. Cattle feed and horse feed are much the same. You can even buy mixes that are labelled for cattle sheep and horses.


It is just the carnivorous diet of a dog being fed to a horse that I find odd. She claims dog food has a lot of corn in it. I don't doubt that but still.
 
I've heard of it - when I read that news article about the arab who was fed dog biscuits on a regular basis by passers by - he colicked and died
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A lot of dry dog foods(especialy the cheaper stuff) contain NO meat products and are simply cereals only!

.....Soooo.... entirely safe to feed, just bloody expensive way to go about it!

Probably ideal as training treats, but expensive as food!
 
Interesting about the cattle feed. I've been taught that's a huge no no because there is an ingredient standard in many cattle feeds that can be very damaging to horses. But maybe that's a North American thing.

There is also the issue that cattle feed doesn't have to "not test" (an in fact can have substances that test in it) and there was a case here, was there not, where a showjumper got a positive test struck off because they feed company had made horse feed in the same bin as their cattle feed.

The dog food thing just seems weird. Even the stuff that doesn't have meat in it has animal fats, bone meal etc. which can't be a good thing for horses.
 
I am not a feed expert by any means so you may well be right. I think it depends on the mix though and what it is intended for.
Perhaps certain cattle blends are bad?

There are many feeds that are general livestock feeds labelled suitable for horses, cattle and sheep. I am sure they could not label them for horses if they were unsafe.

We sometimes add calf manna to our feed mix as a suppliment. My family always has done this for their show horses as well for as long as I can remember. It is expensive though so now I mainly have soy added. My horse do very little work anyhow so it is not needed.
 
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