Likit toys - Do you have one ?

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Am just looking for things to keep my boy occupied in his stable due to the awful weather he is having to spend pretty much all his time in the stable, apart from being ridden.

I have no idea if he will 'play' with toys but was wondering who had one of the likit toys and if their horse played with it ? (the likit licks) and infact which flavors they like best.

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Yes well the pony does and he devours it in a night! Doesnt matter how I hang them - he can bite chunks out of them! I freeze sweeds now that my OH drilles holes through! :)
 
They're just sugar aren't they?! Horses go nuts for them but I wouldn't give them to one of mine. It would send them loopy.

I quite like the Uncle Jimmy's seed balls (look like giant bird seed balls!) but they're heavily molassed so I don't give those now.

In the past I've made hanging mobiles of fruit and veg, tied to the top of the stable. Make a hole in chunks of carrot, apple, any fruit/vet your horse likes, and put string through. Makes a mobile they can play with.
 
Seriously? I would be horrified if anyone put one of those things near her after all the time and effort I have gone to in getting her diet right :0! You might as well just tip a couple of Kgs of sugar on his floor.

So, to answer your question. Nope :)

Have you considered a treat ball (with something more healthy in) or perhaps a swede on a rope, hanging small haynets around the stable with slithers of veg tucked in...?
 
I've got one but I'm lucky if the actual lickit lasts 3 minutes! I do put suedes in the holder too and they last about 5 minutes. I'm not sure if horses do actually lick the lickits - they might no all be as greedy as my hungry cob!
 
I won't buy them as they are full of sugar. I hang very small pony sized elim-a-nets around her stable and sometimes put some fibre nuts in her decahedron.
 
My horse doesn't like likit products she'll not touch them at all. she really like's the Horslyx ones and the stable ball type toy called an oddball which you put the treats in and they knock it about to get them out! ;)

Hope this helps :D
 
Ditto above - Have used them a fair bit, but only when I know they're going out soon. If they're prone to hyperness from sugar, be aware! :p
One of mine is also skilled at managing to bite them in half, despite having an enormous head/mouth

Hanging up turnips and carrots work for mine, or better yet the equine decahedrons which I fill with Fibre Plus nuggets.
 
I feed the HorsLyx in the garlic flavor. Horse adores them and keeps him happy. Im not sure how bad they really are but he has the dentist regularly who is thrilled with his teeth for his age and nothing could make him more fizzy... so for me as long as he and the dentist are happy. Im happy

Simples
 
Also the balls that you fill with stuff are great - mine wont bother any thing hanging from the stable roof or attached to the wall but does play with his ball. Its quite funny to watch too however I keep mine on matting and think unless you did or had a large area unoccupied by bedding then not sure if it would work or just torment the creature!
 
I just make sure of ad lib forage and a himalayan salt lick if any of mine have to be in 24/7. I also bed on straw which is more interesting to a horse:)
 
I've got one who loves toys & playing, but isn't at all interested in the likit toys, unless they have likits in. And they are so high in sugar, & gone so quick, likits are a very rare treat, & its only a minutes worth of licking when she does get one before its taken away. Throwing a big football in is a cheap way to assess whether its worth investing in a horse ball. Also ours likes;
-leather football tied up in a small net hung from central rafters
-same with a swede.
- football in a large empty trug.
- bobbing veg in a bucket of water.
- salt lick or similar in a bucket on the floor.
- puzzles, such as a few slivers of fruit or veg in a box with a lid. Easier one is towel over a bucket, ours can undo the clips on a tool kit type box.
- hiding fruit & veg in the bed.
- we also discovered she likes playing with fluffy noseband covers.
- and if you drape old towels over door & partitions she pulls them down & plays flinging them about.
-she's tiny & has a habit of drinking (stealing) peoples drinks, so giving her weak, low sugar drinks in a kids beaker, the ones with the little spout with holes in kept her busy figuring out how to hold it in her teeth & tip it. Also if you fill same with water she'll amuse herself holding it by the handle & shaking water out.
Most of the above though do need you to be around keeping an eye out though.
 
My old horse didn't know what to do with the likit toy I bought her when she was on box rest, snack balls are quite good though. Also another idea I was given was to drill holes in swedes and hang them about these work really well and are healthier than likits.
 
I bought my lad one years ago, before I really knew they were just solid sugar. It didn't matter he would not touch it.

I was at a store a few months ago, and found one that is pretty much like a salt lick, and he loves it - seems to only have a few licks a night.
 
I have the one that swings from the cieling but we can't hang it far enough from the wall as he can obviously pin it down & eats the lot within 2 nights. He only gets them once a year as a Christmas present anyway so it's not the end of the world.
 
I'm going to sound like a right weirdo with too much time on her hands haha

I got the likit toys, and once the likit was finished (the flat one that slots onto the ball) I took the plastic dish out, mashed up boiled carrots/apples/turnip etc, filled up the plastic dish, put it in the freezer, then put the dish back in the likit - so they have mashed veg in their likit toys, not the sugary likit product that makes them go scatty!
 
Have you got a himalayan salt lick? They are huge and my mare loves them! Although don't do what I did and smack your elbow off it while mucking out, thought I'd broken my arm they are SOLID!
 
Pretty sure if I gave my ponies a lickit they'd blow the bottom of their hooves off!

They do have a treat ball that has some high fibre nuts in, the trouble is they are a bit dense so they roll the ball then have a bit of a doze which gives the goats time to Hoover up the nuts
 
My ponies have rock salt on their likkit holders and love them but they don't bother if I put a flavoured likkit in the toy. I did have decohedron treat ball for my smaller mare but some shitbag stole it :(
 
Yes, sadly I decided to treat my boy to one as he is on box rest for 6 weeks. Bought the Boredom Buster with apple and his favourite flavour, mint. A couple of days later returned to find the container with the mint one missing. :confused:
Apparently he had somehow managed to remove it from the holder. The YM found the empty container trashed on the stable floor covered in teeth marks. Seems he'd tried to eat that too.
In my stupidity I replaced it with a carrot flavored one.
Ned in his utter excitement to try and bite (not lick) the tasty treat head butted the entire contraption rather too exthusiastically which resulted in it swinging violently away from him only to return at full throttle back in his direction and promptly clocking him squarely on the head.
Strangely he is not longer interested in his new toy :(
 
I've tried them with all of our horses but my mare is the only one who's ever understood them! Geldings have never quite got the point ;)

She's a poor doer so I don't worry too much about the sugar content - she by no means needs any extra energy(!) but if I'm honest I don't notice an increase in madness when she's had her likits. Don't get me wrong, she only has them now & again (they're not there on a daily basis!), but it keeps her busy mind occupied and gives her something to do overnight so think it does no harm really - she did have to upgrade to the highest difficulty toy though, as she worked out the others too fast and munched her way through in no time.
She has a himalayan rock salt in there for when the likits are not - and she also loves the snack-a-balls, at this time of year when there's not much grass around I fill it with treats and she rolls it round the field for ages. I tried giving it to one of the boys too but they just got frustrated with it because it wasn't releasing treats fast enough - he was smashing it to pieces! :o
 
niagaraduval said:
Am just looking for things to keep my boy occupied in his stable due to the awful weather he is having to spend pretty much all his time in the stable, apart from being ridden.

I have no idea if he will 'play' with toys but was wondering who had one of the likit toys and if their horse played with it ? (the likit licks) and infact which flavors they like best.

:)
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My horse's record for consuming a likit hanging treat is 8 minutes so he doesn't have one anymore! I have a trickle feed ball (sorry, had it so long that I can't remember it's name) and put his H&P nuts in that while feeding his chaff and supplements seperately. It keeps him occupied and makes his feed last longer. I had to show him how it worked but he cottoned on quite quickly and he likes playing with it when he's eaten all the nuts and dribbles it round the stable. Eat your heart out Stanley Matthews! If you go with one of these get the spherical one though, not the one with multiple flat sides. The latter will drive everyone mad with the noise while your horse is rolling it round!
 
Ambers mum said:
My ponies have rock salt on their likkit holders and love them but they don't bother if I put a flavoured likkit in the toy. I did have decohedron treat ball for my smaller mare but some shitbag stole it :(
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Console yourself that the person who stole your dodecahedron is now being driven mad by the clattering as his/her horse rolls it around :)
 
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