If it doesn’t move…

[Emilieu]

I eats it.
The greedy cob mantra.

 

[Highmileagecob]

What is it about cobs? Mine will eat anything offered - even if he doesn't like it. Wormer in a syringe - no problem. Anything in his feed bucket is cheerfully guzzled, almost inhaled, and he will take anything from anyone if it is vaguely edible.

 

[Emilieu]

Betty was kind enough to refrain from eating my hand when I thrust it into her mouth to retrieve the ball, moments after taking the picture. A minor miracle, I’m not sure anything else has ever come back out ?

 

[Widgeon]

Mine will try to eat things that DO move....he's gone after a bacon sandwich more than once. He's generally pretty polite so I'm usually happy to share, but I drew the line there.

 

[Pippity]

Mine hasn't read that bit of the cob manual. The only thing she really enjoys eating is grass and hay.

 

[Emilieu]

Mine hasn't read that bit of the cob manual. The only thing she really enjoys eating is grass and hay.

Now, are you sure she is not a fussy TB in a Cob coat?

 

[Celtic Fringe]

I offered mine a banana once and he looked at me like I was mildly deranged. The warmbloods on the yard like them but clearly inappropriate for a cob who would like to be as wide as he is tall

 

[Pippity]

Now, are you sure she is not a fussy TB in a Cob coat?

She's fully embraced the "through, not around/over" ethos, so I'm pretty sure she's a cob. Also, she stays fat on grass/hay and just enough hard feed to get her vitamin E into her.

 

[little_critter]

I offered mine a banana once and he looked at me like I was mildly deranged. The warmbloods on the yard like them but clearly inappropriate for a cob who would like to be as wide as he is tall

Mine refused bananas too, well she backed away as if I was pointing a gun, rather than a banana, at her. She has very conservative tastes.
My mostly TB is the walking dustbin of the two.

 

[Fransurrey]

I turned round not long after bringing my cob home to find the end of a carrier bag disappearing down his gullet. Having only had smart ponies before, I'd never worried too much about leaving one hanging up. That changed! I was really fortunate that I hadn't gone poo picking and was able to charge up to the poor surprised beast and haul it back out. It was half swallowed. Lesson learned!!

 

[Gloi]

Long ago the pony in the next stable to mine, low wall so they could reach each other, had a towel padding under his roller. One day it had mysteriously vanished and we only found out what had happened to it when pieces of it appeared in my pony's poo. He survived with no ill effects.

 

[CanteringCarrot]

Several horses at the trail course last year wanted to eat those balls. Not sure why. None of them were Cobs ?

My PRE likes most things, but he was a bit offended when I tried to give him a red beet last week. His old neighbor (Trakehner) used to scoff them. He loves bananas.

FWIW, I don't like beets either.

 

[Annagain]

My friend's new cob spends about half an hour picking anything green out of his feed, licking it clean and putting it in a carefully placed pile. He then eats his tea. The weird thing is, by morning he's eaten all the green bits! I gave him a banana the other day. He chewed it for a bit then spat it all over me.