Liket - That isint a liket?

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hello sorry if you find this pointless but ebs is staying in and im not wasting money on pointless 'play balls' ect i want a lick as tastey as likets but last longer than 20 secs as shes staying in any ideas?
 
Uncle Jims hanging ball licks last around a week on mine and fit into a likit holder and my mare is gready its the only lick that she cant eat or break so has to last!
 
Hide carrots in her hay and her bed.

Fill the plastic milk bottles with water and hang from a beam, she might like bopping them with her head.

The balls do work for some horses. Dizz just looks confused, so I don't bother lol.

Ask someone knowledgeable to get you some logs that are suitable for horses to chew on (do not just go and get one!!). Bundles of safe twigs as well.

A child's football. Some neds like knocking them about the stable :)

Different forage in piles or trails around the stable, such as Readigrass (not Readigrass if horse is laminitic!).
 
i have a boredom breaker and know people with lick it holders they really are great my pony loves playing with his and doesnt eat it too fast he loves uncle jimmys licking things too
you could hang a lick it up with a peice of string too try that
i have hung up veggies on string didnt last long as pony is a string eater lol also rockies health lick strawberry and cream flavour they love it and its healthy lasts ages
 
I used to hang a very large orange squash bottle and put pony nuts in, kept him occupied while he worked out how to get them out!! Cheap and cheerfull aswell. :)
I saw your posts ealier bout the ringworm, i know you cant ride beacause of the spots by the girth area, but you could still lunge, in either a head collar(if conrollable) or a bridle and virkon after. Least then youll still be able to exercise and also walking in hand, i know its not as fun as riding, but you dont want him to get any other problems standing in his box for a few weeks.
 
A decahedron ball and fill it with all sorts of tiny treats. Agree with Chellebean, apple bobbing is great fun. Also a plastic litre bottle filled with diluted apple juice and hung up with a pin prick hole in it, she will lick the juice as it slowly runs out. Make sure she can't wedge it up to anything though, or else she will bite it. She might like a whole swede to chew on. I don't use ordinary licks so can't help there, but there are plenty of other things she can have to keep her amused.

Remember you can still take her out in hand for grass, just keep her off fences and gates etc.

Mine also love a welly boot to chuck about lol.
 
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I would get her a lick similar to this: http://www.robinsons-uk.com/product...pCode=0403&groupCode=04305&view=all#sku.78204 or this: http://www.robinsons-uk.com/product...pCode=0403&groupCode=04305&view=all#sku.68200 as they are healthy and not full of sugar so won't make her loopy whilst she's stabled.

Play balls aren't pointless. My boy has a decahedron shaped ball that you can fill with healthy treats/apple & carrot slices/hi fibre nuts and he loves it. Here it is: http://www.robinsons-uk.com/product...arentGroupCode=0401&groupCode=04105#sku.49415 definitely keeps him occupied. Worth a try.

Also hanging vegetables on baler twine & if she knocks over apples in the water put a tyre round the bucket, it will keep it upright. Make sure she has plenty of hay available in different parts of the stable (one pile/net by her door, another at the back, one in a corner etc.)

Hope this helps :)
 
A ball might be ok. You can get those round ones, fill them with nuts, put the top on and then let them push it round. They are supposed to be indestructible, however my elderly gelding literally used to smash it continually against the brick wall until he had emptied it and believe me, they are destructible when they are kicked that hard. YO used to think that a horse had got cast when they heard the noise!
 
trendybraincell said:
Suede on a rope :)
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Kelly kills swedes in a matter of seconds :p

An equine decahedron ball with treats in - they're fantastic! The milk bottle idea sounds brilliant too!
Search online for things to do for her - I find salt licks are great for them, but the massive ones - they last ages and Kelly's cost me £9.99 - well worth it as she destroys anything else!
K x
 
nikicb said:
Try putting a hole through a large swede (with a skewer or screwdriver - mind your fingers!!), thread a piece of baler twine through and suspend it from a rafter or hook. One of our ponies loved them.
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I did that until my horse whacked me round the back of the head with it early one morning. I swear he has homicidal tendencies. He gets his chucked on the floor now lol.
 
Ladyinred said:
Some brilliant ideas here. Love the pony nuts in a squash bottle one.
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Yer it really works, had a mad jumping horse as a teenager who was young and had limited turnout, i had allowence for my entries for shows ect so got my thinking cap on for ideas so i could save my pennies for shows, also going back then they didnt really have a good range of horsey toys like they do now!!!! :)
 
BSJAShowjumper123 said:
umm ill try xD
and also you know them balls ? do i have to put pony nuts in or can i put in her normal 'mix' that she has?
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You can put whatever you like in them. Not apples at this time of the year because of wasps, but tiy bits of carrot, her mix, polos, pony nuts, whatever yoiu can think of. If it gets a bit smelly just hose it out.
 
BSJAShowjumper123 said:
umm ill try xD
and also you know them balls ? do i have to put pony nuts in or can i put in her normal 'mix' that she has?
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I wouldnt give him mix, if hes used to been out and ridden you may want to cut his feed down pony nuts will have less energy and calories in, and on the plus side pony nuts are less pennies too!!:)
 
BSJAShowjumper123 said:
do i have to put pony nuts in or can i put in her normal 'mix' that she has?
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I put Badminton Fibre Nuggets in my decahedron. They're a hay replacer so you wouldn't be feeding extra feed & they're quite chunky so it takes a bit of work to get them out of the hole. A 20kg sack costs £8 and lasts ages :)
 
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