Which is the greediest breed?

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I have an irish mongrel (ID/connie/little bit of TB) and she has to be the greediest horse ever. She is constantly scrounging for food and will even eat trees and hedges when out hacking. Whereas one of the other liveries has a TB which will ignore a full bucket of carrots in his stable and usually leaves some of his dinner. So - is your horse food motivated and what breed is he/she?
 
Highlands and New forests !
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My WBX was very picky. Would have to be tempted back to his breakfast halfway through the day. My mare was also an irish mongrel and was really greedy. She loved hedges and would get swellings on her throat from eating them. She was eating outside one day and another horse got caught on something, snapped his bridle and escaped. All the horses paniced and kids were shouting. She pulled her feed bucket by the handle into a corner and kept eating!
 
Some of the warmbloods I know are always starving and not exactly skinny! I always thought my NF was bad until I met warmbloods! My YO's warmblood (Westfalen X) is positively starved and is still a big girl!
 
Gypsy cobs, we suspect D is Irish Cob x Welsh D but we'll never know.

She wasn't trained properly as a youngster and as such when I got her at the age of nine she thought it was completely acceptable to set her neck and charge like a rhino to pull the leadrope out of my hands so she could get to some lush grass. She doesn't do this now because we've sorted our groundwork but the urge is still there. If we're out hacking I can't ride her on the buckle end because she acts like a lawnmower. If trees or bushes brush anywhere near her head she insists on eating them even at this time of year when they are dry and twiggy.

Having worked at a RS in my teenage years I've ridden loads of different breeds and temperaments but she really is in a league of her own.
 
No competition...Section Ds and Gypsy cobs! My Section D is a miracle of modern genetics in that he is part Section D part Vietnamese Pot Bellied Pig and part hippopotamus. My Gyspy Cob I can forgive as she was starved until all she had to eat was ragwort. She is part Gypsy Cob part Captain Hook...I know this as she has a clock ticking in her tummy that tells her exactly when to come and stand by the gate ready to be first in for her tea. Even with only about 5% of her liver function remaining, she has managed in 4 months to go from a 5.6 rug to just squeezing into a 5.9! (Thankyou Prof Knottenbelt and Dr Theresa Holland). She looks great but can be a prune round food!
 
I would say it was a very specific breed known as George!!! On a hack at the weekend we had to walk up a short but steep bank which he has been up before, he got his nose level with the bank and instead of climbing up thought 'ahh Mum wants me to stop for some grass' - the way to his heart is definately his stomach!
 
Definitely not Arabs! My boy is the least food-motivated horse on the planet!

It took his trainers 3 months to teach him that grass is actually something you eat - he thought it was just for galloping on. He refuses treats and asks for kisses/cuddles instead, or tries to make you play games with him. He will always happily abandon his feed and come to the stable door for a chat.

All very sweet and endearing - but it's a constant struggle to keep weight on him; anything he does eat, he burns off hooning around at 100mph....
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Soemtimes I wish I had a nice greedy cob!
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All the section C's we have had are greedy pigs. 1/6 welsh B's is very greedy and 1/4 welsh A's is very greedy. So i'd say welsh C's!
 
Cairo and Chancer - clydesdale and gypsy cob - work as a tag team when being led together over the strip of lush grass between the fields, one stops and eats and while I get that head up the other one goes down.

I end up with two ropes over my shoulder and hauling like mad some days.

Day they don't eat dinner is the day I start nailing down the lid!

Good thing is that I can give any bute, wormer etc straight into the feed and it is gone in a flash.
 
I don't think it's down to specific breeds but the individual pony or horse. I've got 7 Fells and two of them are really greedy but the others aren't as bad. My coloured filly is also pretty heavily food motivated.
 
My TB acts like he's being starved, constantly. He's very greedy and I have a constant battle trying to teach him that frisking me for sugar lumps with his mouth open and teeth ready to chomp is NOT correct horsey behaviour. He's unbelievable. He even looks for things to eat in the indoor arena.
 
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