I think my friend has this story every couple of weeks with her houdini Welsh ponyHe'll be fine. It's all fairly low calorie, low sugar (bar the fiber nuggets) and it's a big feed (bearing n mind their stomach is rugby ball sized ish). I would not withhold hay completely, just offer less than usual to avoid waste. He won't eat it if he doesn't want it. I'm sure pretty much everyone has a story or two of this ilk, especially native pony owners
My ex racer used to love a pot noodle for lunch lolNon horsey builders laying a new concrete base and path at a livery yard once fed our TB sausage rolls. He was in on box rest and very friendly. When they ate lunch he whinnied so they thought he was hungry. He seemed to like sausage rolls so they brought him extra the next day
I found the yard teenagers feeding my ex racer (the one I mentioned who are all the breakfasts ) pot noodle.
I wonder if they were Greggs Vegan?Non horsey builders laying a new concrete base and path at a livery yard once fed our TB sausage rolls. He was in on box rest and very friendly. When they ate lunch he whinnied so they thought he was hungry. He seemed to like sausage rolls so they brought him extra the next day
You can tell the age I was when I had my ex racer based on the fact she also liked cheese and tomato pizza and pineapple bacardi breezer
The RS I helped on as a teenager had a Welsh cob livery whose owner liked to drink Bacardi Breezers while doing her yard jobs in the summer. She drank them out of a metal mug. She once left the mug outside the stable and I saw him happily slurping at it! I suppose it's the sugar....You can tell the age I was when I had my ex racer based on the fact she also liked cheese and tomato pizza and pineapple bacardi breezer
It does seem like although they are herbivores, many of them are quite happy eating meat, maybe they are only herbivores because they lack the skills to hunt down and kill animals, but if done for them they are happy to eat it ( like many humans in fact lol)I was once stood next to Saus with a hot dog and wasn’t paying full attention to her (was telling my cousin not to throw the old gelding bean sponge at me), and Saus reached over my shoulder and grabbed my hotdog, sausage and all, before I could do anything!
I grumpily brought myself a new hotdog, and called Sausage a cannibal for eating a sausage.
She seemed to quite enjoy it and eyed up any, and all future hotdogs. I often fed her stale bread and leftover (horse friendly) tidbits. She’ll also eat any carcasses (2 that I know of) she finds in her field.. I do sometimes worry about her taste for flesh!
One of the arctic expeditions that took horses fed them meat and whale fat, I forgot which one.
Yes, I’ve heard the term “opportunistic omnivore” used to describe them before, and it does make sense because a carcass probably provides them with an extra influx of nutrients that they’d have to spend days foraging for otherwise, so it’s more efficient.
Why hose pipe his feet ?
Agree. It’s very odd
That's hilarious, it's just happened on our yard tonight. Pony is very pleased with her clever manoeuvre of opening a half closed lid lol.xMy ( also cob) escaped from his stable one night last week. He ate the best part of a full tub of Baileys treats ( like fibre nuggets) and stood for the rest of the night munching the large bale of hay - left piles of
as evidence! He was absolutely fine!
To cool them if this has triggered a lami attack. However given the content of the feed, I think OP would be very unlucky if that happened.
Was there a vending machine nearby?
Which would work for the rats but would mean that all the feeds are in one spot for any escapee. Mine had to work for his feeds going into different barns and blocks on a large spread out yard.
They could likely smash their way in if desperate, but it would take a hell of a lot of work.
Yes, as kids we used to ride through a McDonald’s drive thru.
