What won't Shitlands eat?

Many years ago my horse was stabled next to a couple of shetlands. The owner would regularly come with one of those veg boxes full of stuff - I assume they got them from the market at the end of the day. Remember there was some unusual things!
 
Mine would eat anything, up to and including another Sh*tland... She is always wombling around the stables (left open and used as a field shelter) in the hope of finding an atom of food that someone might have dropped!
 
The only things he has turned his nose up at so far are pumpkins and strawberry laces (and he gave them a good go!). Oddly enough, Alf ate the strawberry laces. He has very particular tastes, so I was expecting him to spit them out. He also loved the flying saucers - definitely the most popular item in todays selection!
 
My Shetland is a bit like a goat, will eat most things... although don’t offer him anything adventurous. He ate a banana (big horse said no way!) and found a small child feeding him wotsits very happily!!
 
Mine like to eat:
  • Grass
  • Their feed
  • Other horses' feeds
  • Other horses' tails/feathers/fetlocks
  • Leadropes
  • Electric fencing (OK, they lick and chew this rather than actually eat it)
  • Bristles from the yard broom
  • Wellies, preferably ones with feet in
  • Zips on coats that are currently being worn
Mine do not like to eat:
  • Hay
  • Wormers (even buried in yummy things)

You know those videos that appear on social media sometimes with dogs doing 'taste tests' and the dog's 'thoughts' subtitled? (Can't just be my feed they appear randomly on?!) - Ivan should have one of these :)
 
You can buy packets of 6 red and yellow jam tarts. The red ones are yum but the yellow lemon ones are so awful that after chewing and spitting out one he had to wipe his tongue on the grass to get the taste off it :D Strangest thing he was caught eating was a dead pheasant that has fallen into the field from a shoot. Maybe he knew if he bit it open there would be corn in its crop.
 
scruffyponies said:
My friend once borrowed Bruin for the afternoon, to tidy the lawn at her cottage... little bugger broke into the kitchen, and was found neck deep in the bread bin finishing off some crusty rolls.
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a friend of my mum's found me on a 'memories' FB page from the town I grew up in. She reminded me of the time my parents dropped a little section A off in her garden early one morning on the way to a show to eat her grass down. It was done on a regular basis, but on this occasion I think wires were crossed. Said friend opened the back door and started cooking breakfast, pony walked in to the kitchen and joined in. Unfortunately this was before mobile phones and no one in the family was remotely horsey, so pony spent the day in the kitchen being fed toast and they couldn't get her out!!! Meg wasn't invited round again :)
 
Gloi said:
You can buy packets of 6 red and yellow jam tarts. The red ones are yum but the yellow lemon ones are so awful that after chewing and spitting out one he had to wipe his tongue on the grass to get the taste off it :D Strangest thing he was caught eating was a dead pheasant that has fallen into the field from a shoot. Maybe he knew if he bit it open there would be corn in its crop.
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Re the pheasant - I once saw a sh*tland eating a long-dead wood pigeon.
 
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