Ungrateful s***

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Make the effort of bringing him in at nights as he has decided that 24 hour turnout is passe......

Obi comes in, sniffs his feed (I have lovingly prepared) and looks at me like I've pooped in the bucket :mad:.

The disappointed, "I'm not eating that" look....

Ungrateful s*** :mad:
 
Do you think he might like a good dollop of molasses?:D:D:D:p



Seriously, I'd try giving him the ingredients individually to see if you can work out what he is objecting to. I've known horses refuse various feeds initially, then be persuaded to eat them, only for the owner to find out that for various reasons, the horse really shouldn't be eating one of the ingredients.
 
Your advice is good, P.

I've scrubbed out his bucket and stripped his feed down to basics.....and be deigned to eat it then :p
 
Grumpy Jewel said:
My cats are doing this at the moment. I don't think they appreciate the fact we are going without to make sure our animals are being provided for! Bloody picky things!!
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I will second this Bloo** Ex stray cats that would eat anything untill I was given a free sample of Purina Pro Plannow they only seem to be picking at this but they seem to have gone into winter mode now sleeoing the extra hour 23-24.
 
How funny! Bert did exactly the same thing yesterday. Same feed, same bucket... one sniff and said "nah, you're alright mum. I'm gonna stick to this hedge"
 
Could your horses be telling you something? Such as "we arn't hungry and don't actually NEED any extra grub, thanks all the same?". I havn't fed mine anything but a tiny bit of hay November - March, since 1998. And in case you're puzzling, they are all good doers, on good grass, and in grand condition working medium hard May - September, light work October - April.
 
Good point.

I normally only bucket feed when he starts coming in at night, mid August onwards.

But this year he needed more help from July onwards and he's looked better for it.

I made him up a separate feed last night and he ate that - but left the first one :o

In winter he gets rather disgruntled if he gets his hay bucket but not his feed bucket :p

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Hmmm. To be honest I think you could put in abit more effort.

I find candles and suitable background music help. Also the appropriate fine china. ;)



In all seriousness- the amount of supplements and meds mine is having at the moment I surprised he's still wolfing down his feed- all down to the power of fast fibre. It does actually make me abit hungry smelling it.

Although could just be that horse is abit of a fat b******...?
 
Took me 3 weeks to find something my friesian would eat........!

This is the trouble with living out on lots of acres specially sown with mixed grasses and herbs and lots of hedges to browse - they dont like fast food anymore!!!
 
TigerTail said:
Took me 3 weeks to find something my friesian would eat........!

This is the trouble with living out on lots of acres specially sown with mixed grasses and herbs and lots of hedges to browse - they dont like fast food anymore!!!
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Wow - s'funny how they differ.

Paula
 
My daughters horse Sunny is a fussy pain sometimes. He refuses anything with cod liver oil in it, even one of their treats is refused. She got him some apple chaff and he refused that too. Luckily he seemed to like the conditioning cubes and speedi beet we fed him on winter, but talk about a fuss pot!
 
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