AShetlandBitMeOnce
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I hav Dex some spillers mash with apple juice in it and he acted like I was equine crack. Might be worth a try?
Hive mind - the fussy git is driving me bonkers!
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Pippity
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She's perfectly happy to lose it. She's been known to push her bucket towards another horse.
I'm hoping that being muzzled for turnout will make her a bit hungrier when she comes in.
SEL
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And this is why I like having cobs.
Oooh bucket. Ate it. End.
Oooh bucket. Ate it. End.
Pippity
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Mine's a cob. Please see my previous posts on the subject of, "Why won't my ****ing horse ****ing eat anything I put in a ****ing bucket?????"
criso
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It wasn't the same one, it was a fresh batch made up just to the same recipe. Breakfast ended up on the muckheap.
SEL
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Your cob is self identifying as a Non-Cob
Auslander
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I have a litle cob mare here who gets so excited about breakfast that she hops up and down and squeals while shes waiting for me to tip the feed from bucket to manger. She has 1/2 a scoop of Safe and Sound (floor sweepings according to Alf)
Auslander
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I got that. He won't eat whatever food it is, no matter how it's presented, once it's failed the sniff test
Slightlyconfused
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Have you tried a different colour or shape bucket
On a serious note we had a gelding that would only load with his orange feed bucket.....if we dared get the blue one out he would not move.....we tried this a few times with different people. The magic oramge bucket was the one to get on the truck
Pippity
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You know what? I'm desperate enough that I'll give it a go!Have you tried a different colour or shape bucket
On a serious note we had a gelding that would only load with his orange feed bucket.....if we dared get the blue one out he would not move.....we tried this a few times with different people. The magic oramge bucket was the one to get on the truck
Perhaps she's objecting to a blue feed bucket when the rest of her stuff is orange! She's used to living the matchy-matchy life, after all.
criso
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At least it's consistent, i can't cope with this whole "it tsstes different today" nonsense.
Slightlyconfused
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Does she like apples or pears? Could try apple juice to see if she will eat it.
My welsh mare would eat only grass in summer. My current boy is.fussy, will not eat feed in summer, only grass oe hayledge so i feel your pain.
Pippity
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Tried it. She was horrified and ran to the back of her stable.
I wouldn't be bothered by her refusal to eat, but she's PSSM and I need to get her vitamin E in somehow!
Auslander
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Does she have soaked hay/haylage?
If so, you can sprinkle your vit e over it and it'll stick.
DabDab
Ah mud, splendid
I mean the entire method of delivery could well be wrong. What if these fussy horses just want their dinner off a china plate, or presented on a red velvet pillow, maybe with classical music playing gently in the background, or a fanfare on delivery, oh or to have their choice of news publication to peruse alongside eating.Have you tried a different colour or shape bucket
On a serious note we had a gelding that would only load with his orange feed bucket.....if we dared get the blue one out he would not move.....we tried this a few times with different people. The magic oramge bucket was the one to get on the truck
#horsescanbeculteredtoo
An animal communicator surely seems the next logical step here...
Pippity
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Oh, that's a good idea!
criso
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Don't joke, I spent about 15 minutes earlier holding a feedbowl because fussy tb decided that was the only way he would eat his dinner.
Auslander
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I have found myself doing that on many occasions!
Peregrine Falcon
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I spent half a hour holding a bucket to get one of my mares to eat her antibiotics. I'm wiser now-shove it in a syringe and squirt it in!
Heidi has been a nightmare to get her eat. Even gave her food without the stuff in and she refused. Wasn't convinced I wasn't going to poison her still.
Heidi has been a nightmare to get her eat. Even gave her food without the stuff in and she refused. Wasn't convinced I wasn't going to poison her still.
rara007
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Syringe the Bute in in molasses?
Auslander
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I have threatened to do that - but the prospect of doing it every day for the rest of his life isn't a fun one. He isn't particularly fond of having stuff syringed in, and abiding by Law of Alf (not touching his head whilst doing annoying stuff to him!) makes it even trickier! I don't mind him having comp mix, if that's what makes him happy. If you can't have a bit of junk food at 26, when can you!
cauda equina
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The equine equivalent of Werther's Originals
Annagain
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Wiggy drinks a lot so has two big trugs for his water, a yellow one and an orange one that has faded so badly it's the same colour as the yellow one. Every night he completely drains the yellow one and only once that's empty will he drink out of the orange one. I've tried scrubbing it clean, not scrubbing it, putting fresh water in it, leaving old water and just topping it up, leaving old water without topping up and filling it with rainwater to see if there's anything that will make him use the orange one but he'll only drink out of it in an emergency.Have you tried a different colour or shape bucket
On a serious note we had a gelding that would only load with his orange feed bucket.....if we dared get the blue one out he would not move.....we tried this a few times with different people. The magic oramge bucket was the one to get on the truck
AShetlandBitMeOnce
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I had a load of trugs once and did a test to see if horse had a preference by giving him two and swapping out colours to see what would be drunk from - there was a very clear order of preference but I'm damned if I can remember what it was now. Black was a no, light pink was a favourite but the rest I'm not sure on. He had light blue, navy, green, orange, red, yellow and purple.
Annagain
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To look at, there's very little difference. I can just about tell them apart but there's obviously something going on with them. I wonder if, as it's faded, it's leeched something into the water that makes it taste different?
AShetlandBitMeOnce
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Have you tried swapping them over so the other one is closer to the door?
criso
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My feed and water buckets are black but I do know that when I have 2 water buckets in the stable, the tb will sniff and taste both a couple of times before deciding which to drink from. There's no logic to which gets chosen first and he may prefer a different one later in the day even if neither have been refilled.
Auslander
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I just did my feed order, and his preferred comp mix is out of stock (Baileys All Round). I have ordered Redmills Cool and Cooked, which he has eaten very happily in the past, but I have a feeling he's going to complain about the lack of oats!
Annagain
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Yes. Archie always drinks his in order, right to left (he has 3 small buckets as he sticks his feet in the trugs and splashes about) so I rotate his buckets. When Wig started doing this with his buckets, it was the first thing I thought of.
Hallo2012
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with my very fussy one i am using a bit of soaked bran light mixed in to the top of his usual feed,which smells lovely and is keeping him eating up 