LIKITS

[kimky]

my mare is on box rest and i am trying to keep her happy and busy. so i bought her a hanging likit. Hung it in her stable where she cant slam it against anything.... and within seconds shes ate it :O put her whole mouth around it and chomped it in half!!! £3.50 down the drain and a horse bouncing off the walls is it just my mare or do anyone elses horse do that. ?

 

[Nailed]

Ted used to do it, in a fashion.

Try just hanging a swede up.. they are cheeper and harder!

Lou x

 

[Vizslak]

my young lad does! he is now banned from having them except at xmas! the other two use them in moderation like sensible neddies!

 

[f_s_]

Your horse is not the only one!!!

Mine managed a full lickit and one of the tubs of horseliks!!!!!

Needless to say, she doesn't get them any more!

Plus I hate it when her nose is covered in the stuff and then she uses me as a giant tissue!!!!!

 

[Twix001]

Yup twix does that too, a complete waste of money in his case :L
I just give him carrots and veggies now :L
expensive horse!
haha!

 

[Sol]

my welsh perfected the art of eating likits, whatever we tried xD so she's not the only one!

 

[hellybelly6]

My horse does the same. He doesnt get them any more.

 

[MrsMozart]

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Your horse is not the only one!!!

Mine managed a full lickit and one of the tubs of horseliks!!!!!

Needless to say, she doesn't get them any more!

Plus I hate it when her nose is covered in the stuff and then she uses me as a giant tissue!!!!!

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Oh yes, the Giant Walking Horse Wipe

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[kimky]

i fink the company likit should bring out a harder one so the greedy neddies cant gobble them up as quick lol

 

[f_s_]

I can't understand why I always end up covered in all the gunge!!!!

Why me?????

 

[katie_and_toto]

Yup Toto munches through likits very quickly, he can only have them occassionally

Try hanging a swede up, put a hole through it with an apple corer, takes them longer to eat than a likit

 

[Rollin]

A lot of it about. I gave my mare one as a treat when I put her in for the night. When I did my 10.00pm stables, all that was left was the plastic tube - just.

 

[charlyan]

Mine won't touch Likits, but give him a Supercodlivine lick and it's demolished within minutes! Get it wedged and apply enough pressure to crack it in two, one half falls out and hey presto! He gets one as a special treat now and then.

I generally stick with a Horslyx now as that will last a good six to eight weeks

 

[SunSmile]

My mare has got Likit comsumption down to an art, 2 minutes at the absolute most!!

She only gets them as a special treat now!

 

[teddyt]

Look at the ingredients. Almost pure sugar. Personally I wouldnt ever give them to a horse.

 

[Slinkyunicorn]

I'm a bad mummy!!

Neither of mine are allowed them.....they both have salt licks in their fields and thats it - no sugar rushes here...

 

[loulabelle]

One of my boys is scared stiff of his! Brought it as he loves salt licks and though it would be a lot more entertaining for him, just found out the hard way he doesnt like them when they hang! I brought the one with the likit and ball! Now a normal salt lick will be gone in hours with him!

 

[Peacelily]

yup mine too..

used to only give it to her for a treat when I could stand there and take it off her after a few minutes so she didn't just demolish the whoooole thing!

If only they could make it in a forma which had a small surface area so they could access a little bit and that as they licked it it wore down...

Does anyone remember when the original likits were a bitty type material?? before they were either the gungy sort or the minerally sort? They were really good as not messy and didn't seem to dissapear so quickly...I wonder why they changed their formula...?

 

[SunSmile]

I know when they were the gungey type made of molasses a lot of horses were getting impaction colic, where they werent licking them but eating them whole, which is why they are now dissolvable.

 

[jesterfaerie]

Mine gets the Horslyx and devours that very quickly if you leave him with it, he will ignore everything and just keep on licking. Once it is removed he gets moody and takes his 'revenge' by wiping his face alllllllllllll over me!

I have had to downsize him to the tiny ones, he had the 5k ones and would get it EVERYWHERE....definatly made me reconsider a big one for the field.

 

[Annagain]

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Try just hanging a swede up.. they are cheeper and harder!


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I'll second that. Go to a market or a fruit and veg shop rather than a supermarket as you'll find MASSIVE ones there that they can't get their teeth into - hours of fun!
The licks in a tub are quite good too, if you put a big one in one of those feed buckets that go over the door, they're quite a snug fit and they can't get hold of the tubs to damage them and get the licks out.

 

[Lou23]

Or you could try these

"Uncle Jimmy's hanging balls" Hope link works

http://www.equestrianworld.co.uk/product_new.asp?ID=101977&CategoryID=6

 

[jendie]

My mini Shetland mare devoured an entire Lickit in less than an hour. I was worried it would have ill effect but she seemed fine! No more Lickits though.

 

[Hippona]

2 of mine won't touch likkits...they hang there and go mouldy.

The other one ...well, she just chomps at it and its gone in seconds.

They all love the Horslyx (sp?) ones though....bit messy on the grey