Horses eating bananas??

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Lady at my yard was cuttin up a banana to mix in with her geldings feed this eve, ive never know of a horse to eat a banana! is it ok to feed to them??
 
Mine loves bananas. Not feeding the skin though. She loves all fruit though, she is more like a tapir that a horse.

I have actually had it recommended to feed a banana as an option to a calmer to stressy horses - bananas are high in magnesium, which is how a lot of horse calmers work. Can't quite see it working, especially considering the levels of sugar, but who knows?
 
Both of my boys love them! They are a really popular horse treat in Australia (as popular as feeding apples and carrots is in this country) I don't give them the skins though, although I don't think there is anything wrong with them eating the skins.
 
Mine love love love them, yellow or black, both the banana and its skins. One of them even tried to pick out the chopped banana my OH had mixed into his bowl of cereal one morning!
Had to laugh at my horses face when he took a mouthful of orange peel, it's not something I expect him to ever try again.
Another wierd one is both of mine love onions. I grew some onions and had them drying out in my tackroom this summer. The horses would sneak in and eat the dried onion tops hanging down. So whenever I go and get an onion out to bring down to the house I let the boys munch on the tops. However one time, one of them ate the whole onion and didn't even pull a face and would gladly do it again if I let him. Strange pony.
 
Mine loves them :) my friend's elderly TB loved overripe ones because he could mush them up with his tongue (his teeth didn't do so well with apples and carrots).
 
little_flea said:
Mine loves bananas. Not feeding the skin though. She loves all fruit though, she is more like a tapir that a horse.

I have actually had it recommended to feed a banana as an option to a calmer to stressy horses - bananas are high in magnesium, which is how a lot of horse calmers work. Can't quite see it working, especially considering the levels of sugar, but who knows?
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genuinely this works!!! my mare will quite happily scoff a banana- skin removed- i put a couple in her feed if she has to come in and she's a lot quieter. on the contrary my other mare, is repulsed by the idea, and is quite put out by the idea that she would ever put something that slimy in her mouth... have to say i agree, cat stand them!!!
 
jessandthegirls said:
genuinely this works!!! my mare will quite happily scoff a banana- skin removed- i put a couple in her feed if she has to come in and she's a lot quieter. on the contrary my other mare, is repulsed by the idea, and is quite put out by the idea that she would ever put something that slimy in her mouth... have to say i agree, cat stand them!!!
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Hmm Samba is on a calmer and cant stand bananas special as always :D


So what can't you feed your horse??? (Im now eyeing up the vegetable rack and fruit bowl). Never would have thought feeding mine a tangerine?
 
I had a pony who loved bananas, skins and all. I eventually found out from the 'Blue Chip Boss' that banana skins are a bit like cannabis and are a natural tranquiliser - in some countries they smoke banana skins. Certainly they never did my pony any harm and she ate 2 most days!
 
BertieRed said:
I had a pony who loved bananas, skins and all. I eventually found out from the 'Blue Chip Boss' that banana skins are a bit like cannabis and are a natural tranquiliser - in some countries they smoke banana skins. Certainly they never did my pony any harm and she ate 2 most days!
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hahah love this!! if you knew Heidi, she suits the's personality of a gangly experimenting teenager!!! insecure and always tempted with food!! x
 
I had scooped a pumpkin out the other week, I gave the horses some, and was really suprised that they liked it, and was looking for more. Very rarely finish a loaf of bread, I always let it go stale and hard, horses love it.
 
My Jack LOVES them even with the skin ... anything to do with bananas like licks and treats he loves to but cant beat a bunch of bananas hahaa bless him
Math likes them but with no skin ... he actually peels them to get the soft bit hahaa xx
 
I read in one of the horse mags that you can feed banana so i tried it the other day, seems he will only eat 2 or 3 mouthfuls of it. Appsrently you can try parsnips, turnip etc as well haven't gone there yet!

After the banana he managed to grab a piece of satsuma that i was eating! Not so sure that he should have that but he liked it, i won't be feeding that again though, surely citrus isn't good for them!?
 
Some of horses at yard where mine are eat them. I dont feed them as i have some dodgy dislike of them. Smell texture and feel if them make me really queezy and have actually been sick when can hear someone eat one! Yak feel all weird just thinking of it!!
 
Someone at my yard gives their horse a banana every day. A pony of mine, many years ago, reached his nose into the kitchen and stole a whole orange off the worktop. I turned around to just see the bit disappearing into his mouth. He also used to love dewberries, similar to blackberries but sharper, which grow on the ground in sandy soil in August. The horses I have now all love blackberries.
 
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