What hedges/trees do your horses like to snack on?

[Parksmum3]

Hi everyone so long story short but I’m looking into planting a long stretch of a mix of hedging and trees to use as a more natural fence line and shelter in the near future. Just wondering what types of trees or hedges your horse’s have access to in their fields, what they seem to prefer to snack on.

 

[Burnttoast]

I put in hawthorn, blackthorn, hazel, holly, elm, field maple, goat willow, dogwood, dog rose and gorse in hedges and as trees oak, crab apple, silver birch, hornbeam, service, rowan, sweet chestnut, small-leaved lime. Judging by what they eat when the electric isn't working, they like all of these.

 

[Not_so_brave_anymore]

Mine are obsessed with silver birch, and they'll have a good munch on hawthorn. One of them eats beech leaves, which I'm sure aren't too good for her? But mostly their favourite is brambles

 

[gryff]

Mine love willow and ash.

 

[cauda equina]

Willow and sweet chestnut are the favourites here, and hawthorn in spring when the shoots are young

 

[Muddy unicorn]

Judging by the number of pips in the poo, one of them really likes rose hips - the other one likes sweet chestnut (rears up to reach the leaves) and they both love brambles.

 

[SantaVera]

Ash and willow they like best

 

[Auslander]

I have hawthorn hedges which they love eating, and willow round my arena, which they queue up for when I cut it and chick it into the fields! They also strip all the bark off the willow branches!al

They also really enjoy post and rail fencing...