What weird things do your horses like to eat?

[classicsporthorses]

Well I learned something new today. Today members of the NYPD came up to the farm to say their good-bye's to Doc (my NYPD Clydesdale who's eye cancer has progressed too far too quickly and we have to put him down).

Anyway, we have another NYPD horse-Black Jack. We walk up to the run in so they can see him and one of the officers has a cup of regular old store bought coffee in his hand. He walks into the run in, takes the lid off and Black Jack starts lapping it up like a dog! I could not believe it. I asked if he takes it black or with cream and sugar. He takes it with cream and sugar AND he likes Donuts with it!

Now we have an old Maclay gelding who will eat just about anything-from soda to BBQ chicken and my boys love Orange slices but Coffee?? I do have a friend whos old gelding love beer-and the cheap stuff to boot.

Anyone else?

[equineartworks]

I can't wait to tell Ally! :D She;ll bring coffee with her every Sunday :cool:

So far my new kiddos have ignored carrots, ran away from cheese doodles, gobbled up apples and dobbins and liked a tiny piece of homemade wheat bread. They seem to be good old horses :lol:

Paco? I haven't seen anything that Paco wont eat, but that doesn't mean he likes it lol! But he LOVES Root Beer. Katie is sort of picky like the new ponies...lots of fruit and some veggies but not anything she really shouldn't have.

How I miss Dumplin', he loved to share just about anything with you :sadsmile:

eta...I am so sorry about Doc (and maddie and cymba) they have had such a wonderful life with you all.

[SarahandSam]

My horse Sam is beyond interested in my coffee when I have a cup at the barn. I've never let him have any (if I'm there that early, nobody touches my coffee, not even my pony) but maybe I am going to have to get him his own little Tim Horton's iced cap one of these days...

[piaffequeen]

Brown Frosted Pop Tarts, Orange Soda, Mello Yellow and most anything I am eating Sam will try!

[Bluey]

Dairy Queen soft ice cream in a cone, first licking ice cream and then eating it cone and all.
Started begging licks from mine, ended getting the silly horse his own.
He did a little dance in the trailer when he saw me coming with it.:)

[lstevenson]

Mine eats sweettarts. He'll eat one, squint and make a face like "ooohh that's sour!", and then beg for another.

[Flash44]

cherry tomatoes

[shakeytails]

My stallion will eat almost anything, but I think his favorite is those bright orange cheese crackers with peanut butter in the middle.

[HorseAngel31]

On hot days my little three year old QH loves sharing Freezies with me! Cherry only

[bizbachfan]

my old show pony loved cotton candy and banana peels, she would eat the banana but perferred the peels for sure.. I miss my Dixie Doolittle :)

[razalter]

Rico will got nuts for zinnias!

[Addison]

Our old pony loved Iced Tea with lemon. She would literally close her mouth around the bottle (plastic) and drink it down.

[bizbachfan]

ha that reminds of our pony that loved BEER he could take a plastic cup in his mouth full of beer and up end it and get most of it in his mouth. :)

[klmck63]

Toast with butter and jam (we share breakfast at shows), french fries and grapes are my horse's favourite non-horse foods :)

[hopashore1]

Twizzlers

[Equibrit]

Licorice jelly beans.

[JollyBadger]

My gelding loves beer, but he's kind of a beer snob - prefers Warsteiner, Killians, Guinness. . .and his favorite seems to be the Jamaican lager Red Stripe.

He also likes breakfast cereal (Lucky Charms and Life).

I used to know an old schoolie mare that liked fried chicken and pizza.

[elmerandharriet]

rolaids but not just any flavor hes picky his fav. seem to be the fruity ones smoothie wild berry and tropical fruit he hates the mint ones...

[stryder]

Tonight my mare discovered plums. But it's a team effort - I bite off the end, then pull out the pit. She also likes grapes, both red and green. And blackberries. She's very patient while I pull them off the vines.

[Coreene]

Garlic bread.

[mypaintwattie]

Peppermints are a staple treat with my horse. and Beer. Good ole' quality Budweiser. Mc Donald's french fries. Or fruit chews- just discovered that one yesterday! Yummy!

My old mare would eat the goldfish crackers and oreo cookies from my lunch everyday. She's 26 now, so I guess it didn't hurt her!

[Chall]

TB loves coffee, hot chocolate, orange soda and beer. Its pathetic watching a big strapping TB trying to get their LONG tongue into every last centimeter of the cup and groveling for it. It's kinda demeaning.
My Arab wont touch the above, but is not above a bran muffin with the suprize raisins. He really chews the raisins. I can't tell if he really likes them, or he just deals with them because they come with the treat.

[iloverocky]

My old horse loved the Little Debbie Marshmellow Cream Pies, as well as ginger snaps, jelly beans, sweettarts, peppermints, and of course "horse treats."

[equineartworks]

well, I tried my "world famous" Kashi breakfast bars on the babies last night...NOPE! Katie and Paco loved them of course, they even tolerated the little bits of marshmallow which normally they hate.

What am I going to do!!!!!!!!! I don't have a little hoover anymore :(

[LD1129]

My old horse loved twizzlers too! Was eating them right up until the moment he was put down :sadsmile:

Twizzlers

[Bluey]

We had a colt called Troubles, so you can figure what he was like, that would wait for a gold fish to come close to the top of the tank and gobble it down with relish, lips puckered and the goldfish tail flopping around before being swallowed.:eek:

He was raised by some people that didn't feed him right, or complemented his diet with stuff he should not have eaten and had very ugly knots in his joints as a yearling and was crippled.
They gave him to the farrier, that gave him to us and, with vet help, we got him straightened up to where he was a good riding horse after all and his joints had minimal knots left.

What we could not really change is that he was not very good with horses, always causing trouble and he was not very respectful of people.
He eventually learned to behave, but he always was pulling something silly, like fishing in his water tank.
He would also steal most anything a person was eating, even a chili dog.:rolleyes:

[glimmerling]

My TB gelding will kill someone for watermelon. At my old barn I even grew watermelons for him. I'd throw them out into the pasture so they'd smash open and he learned to step on the rind so he could eat all the insides out. He also likes sweet tea and cheese puffs. My new TB gelding likes mountain dew. He even carried around an empty bottle of mountain dew for an hour the other day hoping it would spawn more mt dew. The paint mare craves peanut butter crackers. The TB mare eats anything you put in front of her.

[analise]

So I recently saw a mare who really loved a margarita. (the kind that comes out of a box, like boxed wine!).

[Knothead]

Chocolate Pop-Tarts.
Loves the Cinnamin Pop-Tarts, too.
And pretty much anything else that I'm eating or anyone else is eating within a 25 mile radius of his present location.

[Vesper Sparrow]

My gelding and a bunch of other horses in the barn loved whole-grain Doritos. But they wouldn't touch the Sun Chips I bought for them. Go figure.

[JSwan]

Anyone else?

One of my horses goes absolutely crazy over gummi bears.

[ChocoMare]

My Clyde-X adores whole bananas...yup, peel and all :D

The Percheron says "um, banana sans peel please" :winkgrin:

Both also adore NutriGrain Blueberry Bars. :cool:

[mp]

My TB gelding will kill someone for watermelon. At my old barn I even grew watermelons for him. I'd throw them out into the pasture so they'd smash open and he learned to step on the rind so he could eat all the insides out.

I've got a gelding who loves watermelon, but he eats the rind, too. ;)

Pretty funny stuff, folks. Who knew horses were omnivores?

[merrygoround]

Clementines, failing that a very ripe tangerine.

[quietann]

I have yet to meet a horse that doesn't like strawberry poptarts.

The old gelding I ride loves Ceaser salads, anchovies and all.

Cucumber slices get a mixed reaction from my maresy. If it's a very hot day and the cukes are well-chilled, she will eat them happily, but when they've been out of the fridge long enough to warm up a little, she makes ewwww ick faces and spits them out. In her opinion, raspberries are quite tasty; blueberries are not worth the effort because they are tiny and she can't always "pop" them before she swallows them. Brazilian banana cookies are yummy; fresh bananas are not.

[wingedmare]

Let's see my pony growing up LOVED the grape freeze pops (my grandmother would sneak them to him even though she swore she didn't like the horses)

My appy pony would steal Funnel Cakes off of people at fair, someone HAD to stand at his head even with a rider or he was getting himself a funnel cake! Oh, he also like to wash it down with mountain dew, my husband found out the hard way.

My TB LOVES margaritas. I found this out 2 years ago on the 4th of July. We were sitting in the pasture waiting for fireworks to start and Trickster standing loyaly behind my chair. I thought he kept DUMPING my cup until I HEARD the slurp gulp slurp and spun around to find his head back and my cup in his mouth. He had to have had at least 3 cups of them!

Silly beasties

[KonaPony]

Watermelon rinds and pita chips. My favorite snack is pita chips and hummus, and if I have some at the barn I am commanded to share.

[jenm]

Cheez-Its :)

[cloudyandcallie]

I have a friend who is an NYPD officer and his horse Geno eats biscotti with his latte.

But I bet they all stop off and have a few doughnuts on their watch.:lol: I see sprinkles.

[work4horse]

Some of the herd at home have different tastes

Old broodie mare loves bananas-peel and all
Fig cookies-all three (but especially the 4yr. Sempatico mare, her eyes light up like Xmas-one time had them in my pocket when the blacksmith came to distract her baecause she will hold it together until teh very last foot. Well I almost had the pocket eaten out of my shorts and the last time he came she parked herself near my pocket expectantly and we had no issues with any mental breakdowns..problem was I didn't have any fig cookies to give her as reward).

All them will eat Corn flakes

The 3 yr. old big boy tries diet coke last night and lapped it up like it was teh juice of life

[OkLurchers]

Grape & orange soda, popsicles, fritos; my WB mare loves Krispy Kreme doughnuts.
All of my horses have gotten Nature Valley granola bars for treats for past 20yrs--I buy big boxes at Sam's. They're cheaper than horse treats & people can eat them too!

[Showjumper28]

My horse is a fiend for twizzlers, he likes the black or the red, but won't touch the rainbow ones. He is very funny when he eats them though, he likes to bite them. He doesn't want the whole thing at once, he likes to take small bites and savor it. LOL

I once leased a QH gelding who ate my cheese steak off the nearby stool. It was all I had for lunch that day and he ate the whole thing right out of the tin foil.

[Simbalism]

I had a horse in the past that ate one of the kids hot dog and bun. It wasn't something he got frequently, she just happened to be standing next to him while we were stopped listening to trainer and he reached over and snatched it. My current horse likes peppermints(surprise), trail mix or grannola type bars,apples,plums,peaches(without the pit),grapes, carrots,Pepsi, Gatorade. This summer she has developed a fondness for the freeze pops that come in the long thin plastic. I have to be careful of bringing a plate of food near her. Even if she doesn't eat anything, she has to snurf around in it to see if there might be an edible morsel on the plate.

[thatmoody]

My other gelding's tongue. I kid you not - he was sticking it through the bars of the stall, and the other horse bit it off and ATE it. At least I'm pretty sure he ate it, as I never found the part of the tongue, just got there to find horse #1 missing half his tongue (with a bite mark out of it the exact size of a horse's front molar area) and horse #2 looking guilty...

[bossmom]

I used to have an Arab that loved loved loved frosted mini wheats.

My OTTB now enjoys the blackberries that are growing near our trails - I stopped to pick some for myself and pretty soon he was "picking" them too!

[Tuesday's Child]

thatmoody - :eek::eek::eek::lol::lol:

My horse eats Nibs and grapes and goldfish (the crackers, not the actual fish) plus all the usual horse treats. Haven't tried anything too weird on her as I don't want to waste my food! However she has recently taken to going out of her way to eat thistles :confused:

[Zugabe]

My old Appendix QH ate my HAM SANDWICH!!!

Not sure if he just engulfed it so fast that he couldn't taste the ham, or what. Definitely didn't think my horse was a carnivore.

[Brown Horse]

I actually don't think these things are too weird for a horse to like, but maybe it's just me. My horse loves...
Apples and cinnamon rice cakes
Oatmeal cookies
Dried sugary pineapple chunks (no idea what they're called)
Wheat Thins

I'm kind of paranoid about giving my horse human food and it not being good for him or having some toxic something-or-other in it that I don't know about...so I generally stick to carrots, apples, and peppermints :)