Ultimate in food orientated but yet fussy!?

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So timmy, youngest of the Baby P's came in today as he was going to be a big boy and be my horse for teaching people to harness (running one of out "experience carriage driving" days today.) So he came in and we gave him some grub to keep him happy but we have finally got some garlic so I chucked that in too, threw the feeds in and went away. Came back and hadn't eatten, q me panicing he's choked/coliced etc so felt his throat, listen to his tum, all fine. Offered him some of his brekkie which he took.... then proceeded to chuck his head about in an obvious "Mum, I don't like it!" manner. Well its not like he was doing any acctually work, just standing around being adored and having some harness thrown on, so didn't bother getting him anything else and started to groom, anyway, this is what happened:
Tim: "oooo food.... should eat food...." *takes mouthful*
"EWWWWWWW mum! It's horrible!"
1 minute passes

Tim: "Oooooo food....."

Lmao, this continued the whole day and by 3pm he'd finished his breakfast! It was only half a scoop of chaff, bit of garlic and oil! He's not too bright at the best of times but this took the biscuit! I couldn't stop laughing and coachman ended up coming in! lol

Has anyone else come accros a horse so obviously food motivated but fussy at the same time!?
 
It could be the garlic that was putting him off!!
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If he hasn't had it before the smell can be quite off putting.

Having said I am yet to find anything mine won't eat....
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lol, what a funny boy! - he's lovely btw-
He's so food orientated that he's keeping his eye open when resting just incase more grub appears....
My old pony was a fussy eater and I was advised to try him on allen and page fast fibre. i offered it to him and he ran away from me throwing his head about and wouldn't let me near him....... I had to hide the bucket and throw apples to him to trust me again!!
 
lmao! Thats brilliant! I think that tops tim!

The photo of him asleep he was acctually truly out of it, I think he'd been looning round the field with his brother. unfrotunatly just after the picture i got too close and frightened the crap out of him!
 
We had a mare who was normally very greedy, and heaven help you if you got between her and her feed!
But if you put anything new in her feed she wouldn't touch it, and would treat it like poison, running to the far side of her stable and staying there. She wouldnt even take a mouthful and spit it out, if she smelt something different that was it...

It didn't even have to be anything suss like garlic, we went from oats to barley one winter because of availability it took us a week to convince her to eat them, and the time we switched from 'mare and foal' to 'working' pellets from the same manufacturer it took nearly 2 weeks.

In the 8 yrs we had her we never convinced her that sugar cubes weren't poison.
But having said that she loved Guiness bran mashes, watermelon, corn-on-the-cob, and the staple apples and carrots.
 
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