omg.. naughty greedy horse

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My 8yrold 16'3 I'd x tb who is not even remotely underweight... Or cold, coz hevis rugged..is with another horse in 3 acres of nice grazing that has been left all summer for winter grazing. Has decided he needed more food.. he has jumped a post and rail fence. Gone through an electric fence. And gone into the feed shed to eat, an entire bag of 16 plus food, and 3 lickits....With apparently no ill effect...... For 3 days I have worried about colic. And watched him like a hawk....he is not even being fed yet, I usually wait for them to eat some of the grass down first before introducing feed over winter.. I had only just bought the feed too...think I may have to buy a safe to keep food in....Grrrrr .he managed to open the latch on the feed shed too. He has not even looked like he has any sort of discomfort... And I swear blind he tried to look innocent as I arrived and found him licking the empty bin....
 
My lad did this last year, he got into our feed room and ate two thirds of a black bin full of veteran mix and half a bin of chaff, initially I did wonder why he refused a sugar free polo, till I saw the mess in the feed room, I was up all night checking on him, he was in a right huff because I kept him in but thank god he suffered no ill effects
 
Padlock now fitted to feed shed... If he can open the combination padlock..I going to go nuts... The electric fencing gives a right belt out.. and he got through it!!! Laminitis is a worry, coz even in deepest winter he is normally fed a small scoop of pony nuts and cheap chop...
 
I know I should laugh! but I can't help it, what an evil genius! how did he know there would be feed in there? and he managed to open the door too! what a legend of a horse! that takes the saying "i always get what I want" to another level!!

hope he's ok though!
 
A few years ago two of mine took a chain off a gate, let themselves into the yard, opened a bin with a latch and ate half a bin of chicken pellets!!!! No colic, no bad effects, just two horses looking like they had eaten Christmas dinner. Very lucky....
 
Ditto dod. The night I discovered my ponies ability to open kickbolts, normal bolts & latches was when I found her in a storage area next morning. She'd ate 2 bales of hay, a few grocer size boxes of apples, a sack of carrots, half a dozen assorted feeds left for that mornings yard breakfasts, & a few haynets. And was a bit miffed she didn't get her morning net & feed when I arrived. How she escaped colic & lami I don't know. Apart from rather a lot of muck & being very hyper from all the sugar/oats etc she'd ate there were no side effects.
 
littlelegs said:
Ditto dod. The night I discovered my ponies ability to open kickbolts, normal bolts & latches was when I found her in a storage area next morning. She'd ate 2 bales of hay, a few grocer size boxes of apples, a sack of carrots, half a dozen assorted feeds left for that mornings yard breakfasts, & a few haynets. And was a bit miffed she didn't get her morning net & feed when I arrived. How she escaped colic & lami I don't know. Apart from rather a lot of muck & being very hyper from all the sugar/oats etc she'd ate there were no side effects.
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Oh I'm sorry, this is a very serious subject, but that really made me (and my daughter) laugh! I will look more leniently on my two when they break into the feed room since they are only ever interested in finding the bag of treats and scoffing that...
 
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