Picky, Picky Horses

In my personal experiance I have only had one horse who would eat anytihng that I offered her. Her name was Charlotte and she is a pony that used to be at our barn. Now I am stuck with all of these picky horses who will only eat about five different foods.

My horse Moon loves peppermint and one day on I was at the store I picked out some mints for him, little did I know that they were not the normal flavor of mint but spearmint. I didn't think anything about the flavor when I bought the green mints. I mean mints are mints who cares what flavor they are?

The next day when I took them out to the barn Moon refused to eat them. I was so annoyed, not only would he not eat them but I was stuck with them until I could find someone else's horse who liked the green mints.

I think that the horses should just be happy that they're getting anything different in their bland diets, I know I would.

Comments

[Aunt Amy]

How on earth did you find out that he liked peppermint to start with? Have you tried Candy Canes? M&M's? Reeces Peanut Butter Cups?

[Madison]

Actually I have tried candy canes. He likes them, but he doesn't like the hook, only the straight part.

[Chrissy]

Hey, my horse is the same. Exsept a moody mare ( i still love her tho). She won't eat molases when the other horses will. She will eat Fruity twislers, Regular twislers, cinimon toast crunch, shugar cubes, alfalfa cubes, grain... or almost anything elece... oh and she will eat ice creame too... never talk to people by the fence when you have ice creame...

[ponyprincess]

WOW!, I never knew horses were picky.
I wonder what would happen if you tried
other peppermint flavored products: )