Ponies. What won't they eat?

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D1 reliably informs me that she saw one of the ponies eating Himalayan Balsam at the weekend.
Presumably the thistles are over and they're bored with nettles.

I do hope they get a taste for it. It will save me the bother of trying (unsuccessfully, obviously) to get rid of it.
 
Put a scythe through the bottom of the nettles and see how the inedible nettles suddenly become tasty snacks!
 
Mine used to be wary of nettles, but have developed quite a taste for them now. I recently found them browsing hedgerows eating nettles from between the nice ripe juicy blackberries - very odd.
 
I have one welsh D that likes eat docks - he's also a digger, and goes looking for a certain kind of root - haven't worked out what yet. Spikes most certainly don't put them off. As well as gobfulls of brambles, and whole thistles, one of my darties likes to take the heads off teasels.

Said dartie also eats horsetail, which bothers me, but since he's the finest looking, fattest of the lot of them, I'll have to trust him on that.
 
My Connie won't eat anything that's "good for her" she can be mareish, so tried agnus castus - no way she was touching that. Vit/min supplements can also be smelt out, no matter what you mix it with, bute, wormer etc, forget it.
On the other hand, leave your sarny/crisps/chocolate unattended & watch the smug grin.
Landowner Is happy, as similar to above poster, she loves Japanese knotweed.
 
Mysti is a picker! She will delicately pick blackberries, the flowers on thistles etc but leave the rest. She also picks at her hay. The only poor-doer welsh!!! :p
 
Not grass related....but one of our ponies once ate some pizza....and the same pony used to love jam donuts. Woe betide if you left anything near her that was edible!
 
Well Billy (horse) appears to eat everything - today he was eating damsons.
Also has a penchant for cooking apples!!

Dino, my last pony, he liked chicken burgers and chips from McDonalds!!
 
Yellow jam tarts. He likes the red ones but he grabbed a yellow one, spit it out and then spent the next 5 minutes wiping his tongue on the grass. This from a pony who moves poo piles aside with his foot to check if there's any grass underneath. My old pony, given chance, used to see off the Alsation chained on the yard and steal its dinner.
 
Soggy bottoms of Apple pies. My grandad took to baking after my gran died. He was mostly excellent but never quite got fruit pies right. My old lad would eat the top and filling but spit out the soggy bottom. He could have been a judge on gbbo!
 
mine don't like clover we have loads of it in the fields they will eat it eventually but will scrape the fields of grass before they eat the clover. Under no circumstances will they eat wet hay either even if it has dried out or has been wet by rain or snow so we have to give them bucket feeds in winter with only enough hay to eat while it is dry
 
My ponies won't eat cucumber, offered them some on the way to feed the guinea pigs and they turned their noses up. I did catch a child feeding one of them egg sandwiches at a show once and he was loving it. Not sure if it was good for him though.
 
Applied to my highland ..... Nothing!!!! He's food obsessed and I haven't yet found anything he won't try. Prefers mandarin oranges to strawberries, carrots to swede but generally, if it's edible, he'll eat it. !!!!
 
Mine won't eat stale Lidl carrots!

I thought there was something wrong with a yearling that was refusing carrots until I discovered this quirk. Now I regularly buy them fresh and we are back to normal!
 
Balsamic Vinegar & Sea Salt Kettle Chips apparently according to my 13.3hh Cob hehe.. He was really wanting some so we tried to give him one (Only one before you all jump on the bandwagon!!) - he would not touch it.
 
Fides said:
Funniest thing I have ever seen is my sec Ds face when he had a creme egg and it popped in his mouth!
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Hahaha! I bet that was hilarious!

I love it when they snaffle something in greed, then realise they don't like it, spit it it out and stick their tongue out and nod their head - cracks me up every time!

I've a way to go before Dolly does that though - she doesn't know what treats are and snorted and backed up when a fellow livery offered her a mint
 
My old pony loved egg sandwiches, Coca Cola, and ice lollies. My Clydie will drink Poweraid from the bottle.

W1bbler give your Connie some extra strong mints before giving her anything nasty, also flavour food with peppermint oil. I've also used a little Vicks Vapour rub at the base of the nostrils when what I need to dose with has a strong smell.
 
In the winter they wade into the river and stick their heads under water to eat the duck weed, shaking each lump dry as they bring it to the surface.
 
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