What random things do you feed your horse?

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I've been looking around to see if you can use normal cod liver oil in a horse's feed, rather than buy equine stuff, and have found lots of random things people feed to their horses. So just wondering what you all do? I'm interested in trying cranberry juice as a few people have given this as a treat, anyone else used it?

I've tried a few things with my boy, he loves strawberries, carrots, swede, apples, polos and fruit juice but hates brocolli, celery and asparagus. He's not sure about bananas, will eat a little but that's it lol.
 
Bananas and strawberries is top of my lads list.

In his previous home I believe his was partial to a mouthful of diet coke.
 
He loves bananas, pears (the riper the better), dates, Qavers (used to tempt him back when he escaped from his stable into the field) and jam sandwiches!!!
Am sure there's loads more stuff but I just haven't discovered it yet: he is a bit of an equine hoover!!
 
Ginger biscuits, salted crisps and kendal mint cake are Cappy's fav. naughty treats. Feed wwise he loves swede, carrots and apples. He hates parsnips and broccolli.

Fany loves pears and apples, likkits, parsnips, swede, crisps, polos. Well tbh we haven't actually found anything she won't eat! She even stole some pineapple from me once!
 
Jammie dodgers, chocolate digestives and chocolate flapjack
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The first two are biscuits brought for the farrier, so needless to say the horses are all pretty good to be shod
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My old lad used to absolutley love oranges
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but Jack is very fussy, he will have the usual but very rarely will he eat our food. He's favourite thing ever is the mint and apple likkit...
 
Ginger biscuits and banana's are her favourites, and on Saturday we discovered she loves grapes ! Satsuma's and oranges (inc peel) is another and also Fox's sweets - the liquorice and blackcurrant ones... She doesn't like swede though... she's a very spoilt madam !
 
my instructors horse loves a bottle of Heineken in her feed bucket every night and cold pot noodles - any flavour but normally chicken and mushroom!

My friends polo pony goes mental for sausage sandwiches...is that normal?
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My mare gets a nectarine occasionally. She is such a polite horse normally so it is quite funny to see her struggling to maintain her poise with a really juicy nectarine!
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Our little companion loves peanut butter cookies... she came with her favourite recipe! My sister's pony steals food more than he is given it, he's taken a twix, fish and chips (!), snadwiches etc and he loves melon skin! My friend's pony is similar and once at a marmite sandwich, which was wrapped in cling film, managing to unwrap it! The things ponies can get away with...
 
Mine had a yummy yummy the other day, I was eating it as I was grooming him and he seemed very intersted so gave him a piece and he loved it, must be the sugar rush.
 
Haha I love it, I kinda want to feed Harry just lots of random things to see which he likes, but obviously that would be bad... I may throw in the odd thing now and again though, just to see his reaction. I gave him a thai chicken crisp the other week, he was licking his lips for ages afterwards lol.
 
mine doesnt like parsnips.

Decided at one show he liked coke, and was then raiding through the bin to find the empty cans to try and lick them out. He wont drink it now though!

Sour cream and chive pringles (or some other disgusting flavour).

He was adamant that he wanted some of my egg mayo sandwich once, tried it and promptly spat it out again!
 
Dante used to get cranberry juice in his feed because we thought it may... help... (smelly git could pee for england and it stank
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) Used to soak his calm & conditioner with it!
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Dimples loves bananas, goes crazy for them! And crunchies... heh

Our two get pretty much anything fruit/veg wise, Dimples even picks his own blackberries in summer!
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Dimp's also been known to eat ice lollies and bacon flavour crisps... and we had a mare who adored fizzy drinks! xD
 
I use Marmite sandwiches to get drugs down my boy, works every time. Haven't tried him with anything too unsual although my whol family save our peelings for him and the other day my gran accidentally saved some kiwi fruit. It wasn't still in his bucket the following morning so I assume he ate it! He easts all the usual veg though.
My friend's horse loves coke, she'll hold the bottle in her teeth and lift her head to pour it down her throat.
 
Sol - did the cranberry juice make any difference to the pee smell?

I can now add lovehearts to my list, he stole one I dropped last night lol, that boy is a hoover
 
My boy would eat anything - cold pizza, ham sarnies, crisps, chocolate cake, once managed a whole plastic punnet of nectarines (including the punnet but minus the little strap that goes over the top - it was the only thing we found after he stole them off the wheel arch of my trailer !!). The only thing he turned down was milk pellets !!
 
My boy absolutely loves bananas!
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He also likes satsumas and tomatoes!
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Oh and his latest thing is to drink juice out of a plastic bottle! He has got the technique of holding the bottle and tipping his head up just right!
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