Hilary DeVey (Dragon's Den) feeds her horse bacon and ham sandwiches?

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So a work colleague asked me what I would be feeding my new horse for breakfast, then informed me that last night Hilary DeVey said her horse wouldn't leave the stable until he'd had a bacon sandwich and a cup of coffee. I laughed, googled it, and he's right.

Surely it has to be a joke. Surely?

I've been away from riding for a while but didn't think horses had given up herbivorism and become omnivorous while I was away.
 
Possibly its not the most correct diet but not wrong in the grand scheme of things. Ours certainly eat a load they shouldn't do strictly speaking. Given the choice between the too rich diets many horses have, & the odd Bacon buttie the latter is preferable imo.
 
I seem to remember my shetland once stole my dads bacon sandwich when he put it on the wall to help me on board but he would eat anything !
 
I had a pony who loved bacon and egg sandwiches, that and coke were the only things he really begged for!

At the time I had my horses in a field by the main road and the only way I could persuade the farrier to do them in the field (rather than by the side of NSL road, muddy gateway you see) was to go to the local cafe and get coffee and bacon and egg sarnies for us - without me to hold them, he had to do them in the field ;). This pony used to hear the rustle of the sarnie bag and come flying over, whinny, paw the ground and dance until he got half a sandwich, just the crust wasn't enough. Also, if you had a bottle of fizzy drink, he's pick it up and drink it...he also napped towards ice cream vans given a chance :D

BAD diet :eek:
 
well mine can go all out on a full 3 course meal!

salt and vingar crisps....... 1/2 a bag normally does
a decent burger...preferably with cheese...... soft bun is also good.... (less burger more cheese)
a large slice of chocolate fudge cake..... chocolate iceing is a bonus...but will just take the cake
a can of orange lucozaid...and only orange lucozaid!
and to throw in a '5 a day' as many blackberries as we can get off the brambles near us!

stange horse? and he doesnt like carrot cake!
 
Just a few of the many beverages Freddie likes..
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Need I say more?!
 
hehe Freddiesgal those photos really made me chuckle!

Interesting views on the meat-eating thing. Maybe my horses of times past should feel left out, as I'm veggie, so they never had the chance to steal any burger-type items!

I did try to switch to a grass diet aged 6, which failed. There's probably a lesson or a metaphor in that.
 
This has made me chuckle, as yesterday at a showjumping competition my daughter had left me holding her pony, and a little girl was stood close by eating a bacon rolll, he stopped grazing and stared at her the whole time she was eating it and edged closer and closer, so funny! Same pony leaned over my daughters shoulder the other weekend and nicked her calippo on a hot day lol! And also knocked my sweet chilli crisps on the floor and scoffed them as fast as I could pick them up!
 
Mine has eaten various things, like chocolate cake, mince pies, bacon and egg rolls (was not impressed as was looking forward to that!) and bonios!
 
My sister worked at a summer club for kids after she graduated. The owner there had a little shetland and they used to feed it ham sandwiches and chicken nuggets...intentionally! I was horrified.
 
Took my pony to the burger van with me at a show when I was younger, he spent the whole time trying to steal my burger and succeeded in the end! He wouldve put his head in the van given half a chance.

Same pony at a show last year raided the kids lunch bag! Jaffa cakes, marmite sandwiches, wotsits... He's not fussy! The Shetland on the other hand spat out a Jaffa cake but loves marmite!
 
I used to buy a bacon barm for lunch at shows and my horse made so many attempts to rob me of it (succeeded once or twice) that I had to buy a buttered barm as well, just to distract her. The ladies in the butty wagon usually gave her a packet of polos for free too because they thought she was lovely. She also once robbed someone of a large portion of their cheese and onion pie and chips while they looked the other way for too long. The pastry crumbs on her whiskers gave the game away a bit though.
 
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