What's the strangest thing your horse eats? Are they allowed chocolate for easter?

Sorry guys, another quick word of warning...potatoes are also poisonous to horses so watch how many crisps etc they eat!

We have a horse on the yard that doesnt even look at what you are feeding him he just sees an outstretched hand and begins the vacuum cleaner like suction to make sure it cant get away! His favourite game is apple-bobbing so at least he has relatively healthy tastes!
 
Cocoa said:
Sorry guys, another quick word of warning...potatoes are also poisonous to horses so watch how many crisps etc they eat!

We have a horse on the yard that doesnt even look at what you are feeding him he just sees an outstretched hand and begins the vacuum cleaner like suction to make sure it cant get away! His favourite game is apple-bobbing so at least he has relatively healthy tastes!
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It's raw potatoes that are poisonous, as they contain arsenic :)
 
QR - I really can't understand why anyone would let their horse eat human food. Fizzy drinks, burgers, chocolate bars are all colic waiting to happen :( :(
 
My mare goes mad for coffee.. will lick it off your hands if you spill any! Wouldn't let her have more than a teaspoon full tho...she's neurotic enough without caffeine!
She adores thistles and will bite them down to the root if you graze her in hand...shame she doesn't like docks, there's masses in her field.
 
Catcus said:
Lol that sounds like a challenge!

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You took the words right out of my, errm, fingers:D

Isn't chocolate a banned substance for racehorses? I think I read that once in a Dick Francis book:D

My friend once had to stop someone feeding KFC-style chicken to one of the London RDA horses, she thought that was really a step too far...:eek::D
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I don't feed my horses anything like that, they are happy with fruit, mints and horse treats as a treat and I would never entertain the idea of giving my horses any kind of chocolate or biscuit, although Bertha did once steal a cheese and pickle sandwich from me when I was about 12.
My coloured boy picked up the habit of picking up a bottle with his teeth and drinking it, which is handy when he is stood on the lorry after a show to give him some water, although I was mortified when he picked up my lucozade bottle off of the wall last year and gulped the lot!
 
Puppy said:
QR - I really can't understand why anyone would let their horse eat human food. Fizzy drinks, burgers, chocolate bars are all colic waiting to happen :( :(
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Sometimes you can't stop them! My mare has caught me unawares a few times out at shows when I've been eating a burger or a piece of cake, and suddenly her muzzle is attached to the other end of it.

She once whipped a tuna sandwich out of a friends hand and scoffed the lot. That is probably the strangest thing she's ever eaten.
 
SpecialContract said:
Sometimes you can't stop them! My mare has caught me unawares a few times out at shows when I've been eating a burger or a piece of cake, and suddenly her muzzle is attached to the other end of it.
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And it's amazing how their necks seem capable of extending when there is something potentially edible around.
I've come back to find that a bag that I though was out of reach is now safely in his stable and being gone through at leisure.
One time he got my purse and I never did find all the pound coins that were in it so there is a good chance they got eaten.
 
Puppy said:
QR - I really can't understand why anyone would let their horse eat human food. Fizzy drinks, burgers, chocolate bars are all colic waiting to happen :( :(
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Completely agree, still cannot get over how many people say they feed their horses chocolate and biscuits, there just isn't any need when there are so many fantastic treats out there and they get so much more goodness from fruit treats.
 
Cocoa....are you sure its just raw potatoes....if so you have just made my boys day. a few mcoys salt and viniger crisps would send me up quite far in my boys estimation! he also likes grapes, melon, mango and bananas but he always gets upset when i take the skin back, i shall leave him to it seeing as other posters think its ok;-)
 
With Banana skins
They did some research a while back on bananas providing protection against ulcers (think it was the atlanta olympics) and the best bit is the bit right by the skin on very ripe bananas.

But if the fruit has been treated with pesticides then they will accumulate in the skin. I'm OK as I get one of those organic boxes delivered so Frankie gets leftovers from that. Though not potatoes, was told years ago not to feed and never questioned it.
 
A mare I used to loan would have anything you were eating straight off you, made picnic rides more complicated, I ended up eating on her back to keep my munchies safe.

However the oddest thing she liked was....wormer. Seriously not just the flavoured ones either, she would lick it right off your hands. I tried to give it to her in the syringe first and she did a funny rolly eye thing the gobbed it all straight back into my hands then licked it off. After that I just fed it to her off my hands (gave a little more than rd for her weight in case any got lost.)
 
Katt said:
I hope that isn't true, I love raw potato!!! I always have a slice or two raw when I'm peeling and chopping them!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:
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I might be wrong tbf...just one of themthings you get told and never remmber if it was serious or not when you were told it! LOL.

Something to do with if you have the little green sprouts on them starting or something, they produce arsenic/solanin [sp?] substances?!
 
I think Farra the clydesdale has the widest range of tastes out of all the horses we have had. She was seen enjoying tuna and mayo sarnies, with raspberry yoghurt, a fairy cake, half a kit kat, all washed down with fanta orange - she was sharing my niece's lunch box.

Naughty Stinky has been known to steal her cheese and ham sarnies and his treat at shows is to share a can of pepsi max or diet coke with lime - but not the cherry one. He holds the can in his mouth and swigs away.

Mum's Exmoor enjoyed corn beef and pickled onion sarnies (yuk).

Touch wood, mine have a very varied diet (they get all the bread and fruit/veggies scraps from home) and I have yet to have a horse colic.
 
I dont feed my horse human food. He doesnt get horse treats either as it just encourages bad behaviour. If hes good he gets a pat. I def dont feed him eater eggs!! Why would you feed a horse an easter egg!?

My old mare, however, once stole a prawn mayonaise sandwich!
 
The majority of horses are not so sensitive that a little human food/drink will harm them. Whilst I would never advocate giving regularly or in large amounts, there really is little harm in the occasional small amount of human feeedstuffs.

It is correct that raw potatoes should never be fed, and raw green and/or sprouting potaoes should not be eaten by humans or animals.
I think tomatoes are bad for horses too (and gets bombarded with people whose horses eat tommies!)
 
My old cob used to love to share my lunch... cheese and coleslaw butties went down well, (although any cheese butty would do!), and strawberry yoghurt.... and peaches (although he did used to spit out the stone!!!):)
 
my mare has developed a taste for cabbage, I leave a whole one in a hook over manger for her over night, keeps her entertained for a while! As well parsnips, apples, carrots, herbal munchies.

She won't eat mints, bananas or oranges though. Have never tried grapes...

I do a know a horse that once cadged a piece of chicken tikka off me, and ate it!!! But rejected the offer of seconds :)
 
My old tb would only load if I stood at the top of the ramp and unpeeled a Cadburys Creme Egg - anything else wouldn't work!
 
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