What Fruit/Veg Can/Can't Horses Have?

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At the moment I only give my girls, apples, banannas, pears, grapes, plums, carrotts, sweed, turnip, parsnip - is there any other fruit/veg they can have ? and can they have too much fruit/vet will it give them loose poo - I don't give much just a handful a day but don't know if perhaps they shouldn't have it every day? thanks.
 
dont give them to much horses nearly can have any fruit or veg but can not have onions poatoes nuts and if you are feeding them a fruit with a stone you must take that out!
 
grapes, plums and bananas? never tried those before! your weekly shop must come to a lot
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damsons...i think thats what our horses used to eat of the hedges.... stone and all! but i would tale the stone out! but i might be wrong if they were damsons as they look kinda similar to plums....
 
they only get plums when the tree on the farm is full of fruit (and I always de-pip them first) and the other fruit is normally left overs from my fruit bowl at the end of the week or the really cheap smart price type - they absolutely love bananas they are their favourites
 
hi my stallion LOVES bananas much to the amusement of my vets high in potassium keeps lead in his pencil if you get my drift lol !! but not the skins he insists you peel and hold it for him like we eat them ourselves and nibbles down it in about 4 bites ..... he is such a babe but i draw the line at peeling his grapes for him !! ps LOVES tomato and basil soup and ordinary tomato soup lapped out of a cup but must be warm!! he he . big fan of pears but hates swedes i think hes got a sweet tooth
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Can they have cooking apples?
We get loads in our garden which we just can't use, well not all of them, but didn't know if they were different to normal eating apples?
 
I read once that parsnips have a ridulously high sugar content so I cut them out of our mares diet (she would have one a day) and she went from bonkers to actually quite nice within a week.... just one ot bear in mind!
 
As teenagers, we used to ride the ponies under a pear tree that was beside the outdoor school, and pick the pears while they grabbed them off the ground. They were the sweetest juiciest pears, but very small.

One of the ponies was mad about citrus fruit. She'd even eat the peel. Except for grapefruit peel.

We'd also give them corn (maize) husks in the late summer...riding between two corn fields, we'd pick the baby corn, eat the cobs ourselves, and feed the husks to the ponies. Not sure it was a good idea!
 
I feed mine cooking apples, but start off just one a day so they get used to it. Our tree has loads so mine get bramley apples from September until December, and haven't keeled over yet. Not sure about other sorts of cookers, some are more bitter I guess.

Only one of my ponies isn't keen on cooking apples, and will only eat the very ripe, large, sweet red ones, but the NF eats the small unripe green ones if given the chance (he escaped into the garden once and munched his way through loads before we managed to round him up and he was fine after, but I wouldn't recommend it!)
 
Mine mare used to eat damsons off the tree at our old yard - including the stones, small branches between the fruit, the lot !! Never seemed to hurt her.
My old boy used to eat cold pizza & even once snatched a ham & pickle roll - only thing he EVER refused was milk pellets.
 
Id always rather feed more veg than fruit due to sugar content. And Im very stingey giving anything sugary to my 2 lami-prone ponies, they literally get 1 small carrot a day or 1/2 an apple and thats it with their (low sugar) feed! Whereas the others get up to 5 carrots a day in their feed and any peelings / left over fruit / veg. They adored the left over from Xmas (uncooked) sprouts last week. And in past years, when in season, Ive had a huge pile of turnips from our local farmer so they got one of those a day (high in sugar though).

I dont think theres anything they cant have - only in the way of sugar. I wouldnt feed them green or raw potatoes though for example, but anything Id happily eat then Id give them.
 
Two of the things on the "don't feed" list are oranges (horses make their own vitamin C so oranges can cause their vit C levels to be too high... so my uni lecturer ranted on anyway, in my nutrition lectures!) and cabbages and the related veg such as sprouts - they are high in toxic goitrogens. An acquaintance of mine used to feed her horse cabbage, and also used to chuck some over the fence for the horse next door who happened to be my share horse. Horse's owner went MENTAL at her
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