Pony escaped and stole some food

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Have I done the right thing?

My little sod of an animal escaped earlier today and ate just over a bag of hifi light. He seems absolutely fine and was calling for his dinner as he always does but was very disappointed with a very small amount just to shut him up.

I also gave him a small double netted hay net and left the yard around 5 and plan to go up in a couple of hours to make sure he's still alive.

I swear he is edging closer to a one way ticket to the glue factory :rolleyes:
 
One of my youngsters once got out and ate half a bag of Blue Chip Pro, which belonged to his much fancier and more deserving stablemate.

Belly ache?? I hope he bloody did, I know I did thinking about the money he wasted!
The ones who do things like this never kick the bucket though, they live till 49, die on Christmas Day and haunt you ever after, so I wouldn't worry too much about his immediate health ;)


I must say though, in his defence mine is now a fully functioning and useful member of society, bless him.
 
My horse climbed over a 1.3 timber post and rail fence at the weekend and ate most of a bag of mixed corn from the goose's feed bin. No reaction, not even loose pooh! Going to have to lock the feed in the goose house to prevent it happening again.
 
That's what I was thinking, although there is a chance he ate other feeds but we don't know as owners can't remember how much feed they had left.

When me and my sister were younger she had a brick outhouse pony that seemed to survive anything. Once he escaped and ate. Whole bag of dry sugar beet and was fine the next day.
 
My Shetland when I was little was an well known escapeolist he one night went walk about in the village ending at a friends stable behind her parents house ( think black beauty old stable behind Victorian house ) once there he chatted to his stabled mates and then filled in the time eating 56lbs of pony cubes a whole sack he was fine .
 
My mare escaped and ate a whole blueberry bush and a whole herb garden. She was found with her head in the haylage shed eating all that as well. No ill affects occurred. Apart from me being extremely embaressed! :p
 
Oh dear, they are naughty aren't they!

Our horse (and his donkey pal) once broke into the tack room and consumed a large amount of dried sugar beet. The same horse also once ate some dry cement mix (no idea how or if he ever passed that through!). He lived to the ripe old age of 36 though which, considering he was a real stresser about certain things (he once actually smashed down a whol timber stable wall when we had him on 'box rest' one evening after he injured his leg), was pretty good going!
 
Kenny got out once. He ate 2 feeds that had been made up for other horses for the morning (luckily nothing special and not very big) but then chewed holes in a grand total of 12 wrapped haylage bales.....
 
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Beastly ponies! My old pony once managed to sneak in the outhouse and eat a bag of Winalot of all things.
He was also another one who got in trouble for going down a row of wrapped bales testing them all :mad:
 
Thank fully he couldn't get in the hay barn, we probably would have found him asleep in all the hay after a hards day work :rolleyes:

Sadly pony is still alive, how much do you think the dog food factory will give me for him? I'm thinking now he's nice and plump we could get a good amount ;)
 
My donkey once broke into a green house and ate whole 25kg sack of seed potatoes and had no ill effects what so ever....he is still slightly deranged though!
 
My brat broke into the feed room and smashed up every bucket of expensive supplement I have. I could have shot him. I was practically crying trying to salvage some powder off the dusty ground, picking out shards of plastic. He also ate a big bag of grass seed (again very expensive)
He wouldn't be so kind as to eat actual horse food.

I didn't need to punish the dogs for ripping open a bag of beet pulp. Judging by the size of their cr*ps they had already been dished out some hefty punishment
 
I don't think eating chaff will do any harm but I do remember Starzaan on here losing the most gorgeous young horse when he got out and ate all the corn in a pheasant feeder. Absolutely tragic so not something we should ever be blasé about.
 
About 10 years ago I had a pony who escaped during the night, broke into next door's garden and ate a full bag of chicken food/corn stuff, as many apples off the floor as he could find and half their decorative and very pretty wooden bridge for their pond. He was fine but it the chip on the neighbour's shoulder stayed there until the day he died. Opppsy.
 
I had one that broke into a shed & ate a quarter of a bag of cement 😱 poor thing had been kept in a garden shed for the first 2yrs of his life & lived on whatever the owners kids didn't eat so he thought everything & anything was food. Kept him off water for a while & he had no Ill effects! ( The shed was replaced by a locked up caravan afterwards though!)
 
Shouldn't laugh as these, they could of not ended so well, but it's amazing to see what random things they will munch through.

Only thing we had was a lil 14h new forest ate half bag of sugar beet, 1/4 of pony nuts. Again to ill effects but then he was a new forest.
 
My exmoor ate half a bag of dry beet with no ill effects. I doubt he'd be so lucky now that he's older, but I used to feed hi fi lite as a hay replacer to my shettie, so yours should be fine.
 
Two of mine once broke into a building and opened a bag of cattle feed and ate most of it, and pooed everywhere. I was terrified they would get colic, but they were absolutely fine.
 
He's absolutely fine today, I'm now out of pocket for paying everyone back but at least he's okay.

This is the same stupid animal who ate wood pellets, please give me strength. :p

Honestly if anything did happen to him I don't know what I would do. He's the only one keeping me sane.

I shouldn't laugh at these posts but really cement? I thought horses were intelligent about what they ate!! :)
 
My gelding broke out of his stable and ate a bag of unsoaked wood pellets. He was ok but did keep a very close eye on him for a day or two.
 
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I shouldn't laugh at these posts but really cement? I thought horses were intelligent about what they ate!! :)
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I know of a pony that ate open a bag of fertiliser that was accidentally left in the field. The pony died. I think if it remotely resembles the shape of a bag of feed then chances are the horse will at least have a good old nibble on it
 
My husband went out last night to fill the coal bucket and stopped to fuss my horse on route and my horse decided that he should lick the inside of the coal bucket clean. weird
 
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