Unusual Treats That You Share With Your Horse

Nikki Salo · Grand Prix

Unusual Treats That You Share With Your Horse

SoftTouchTraining · Well Schooled

2 of my eventers love snow cones and all of our horses love watermelons. :)

Horse-hearted · Advanced

Jay's favourite snack on the way to a show was a Dutchie timbit from Tim Hortons. I have one before every show in his honor.
There is also a horse at my barn who loves his mom's Diet Coke. He has mastered using a straw to get it!

spirithorse · Advanced

my lattes..............loved them.....

Horse-hearted · Advanced

It makes me wonder....do they see what we love, and decide it must be awesome?

Sidney · Well Schooled

I just started feeding Tango yams.....she loves them (cut up in little treat size chunks). She also love licorice and bananas.....as well as all the other regular treats!

Mykids · Yearling

Growing up we had a grade pony named buttons that just love spagettie and ice cream any flavor would do.

justice · Grand Prix

My first little Arabian thought hotdogs, without the dog, just ketchup and white bread please, were just the berries...

Abi likes anyberry danish and beer on Sundays with DH.

Big Mare is partial to celery, no salt, just PB, thank you.

Pheets is afraid of peaches.

Mercury loves everything.

Gypsy eats everything.

Taj is the re-incarnate of my first Arab: thinks ketchup, prefers rye, is just wonderful.

What I have found to be the most satisfying to most animals and definitely an Arabian, is that which is purloined from their human : )

Nikki Salo · Grand Prix

Great stories everybody, very interesting! I had a horse that hated oranges, and I'd try to trick him into eating them and he'd be offended by it. I know, it was sort of mean, I'd give him a few treats of his favorite foods and then sneak in a piece of orange. He'd make a face, spit it out, shake his head and then give me a look like "how dare you try to feed me this, again!?" biggrin

Hoti47 · Well Schooled

I had a hard time with my 3.5yr old morab when I first got him. Tried everything I could think of to get a dewormer paste into his mouth. Realized he loved the taste of bananas when he attacked his likit... started putting banana pudding in a tube and now he deworms like a charm. He still gets banana pudding every now and then just to let him know that not every tube tastes like paste!

-- Edited by Hoti47 on Friday 19th of November 2010 10:34:04 AM

Eventer15 · Yearling

my horse gets some carrot muffin when we go away to competitions. Just loves them!

KatyM · Well Schooled

Peeps! Some horses are addicted to the pure sugar-y sugarness - some horses could care less.

Now, one of my donkeys you have to watch like a hawk because there are certain things he'll just inhale - like little bits of paper, or small pieces of cloth (I can tell you about at least 3 times I've had to pry his mouth open and drag out a strip of tack cleaning cloth he's gotten hold of).

Then one time when we were at a show, this fellow offered him some rolling tobacco - !YUM! After that, on a couple of occasions when we were out taking a walk, that quick little donk spied a cigarette butt and scarfed it, filter and all. So I learned to keep him away from cigarettes - yuck.

-- Edited by KatyM on Friday 19th of November 2010 03:03:20 PM

Barngoddess · Yearling

We have "Muffin Madness Monday" at our barn. Six of our horse's are in a 'club' and receive a Timmies Blueberry/Cranberry muffin every Monday from one of our Boarders. Timmies knows her well and puts them aside for her! The horse's are VERY put out if there are any substitutions! Only one horse will accept anything else!
My boy will eat just about anything. He receives a chocolate birthday cake each year on his birthday. We all sing to him and then I cut him a big slice of cake, put it on a plate and he justs gobbles it down...and then licks the entire plate clean! He also eats Timbits, he loves a piece of my peanut butter bagel, cookies, chocolate chip Willie muffins, candy canes, and recently he is enjoying dried fruit. He really puckers his lips for the dried apricots! lol
He will eat tea biscuits and almost anything that he hears rustling in a bag, he is willing to try!
Of course he doesn't get these things too often. Generally it is just his pepperment stud muffins twice a week and carrots! I have owned and loved him for 17 years and even with all this spoiling, at 19 & 1/2 years of age he is still svelte!