Old fashion ways of feeding horses...

[Teehee]

I was just thinking how times have changed, when it comes to feeding our horses... :p

About 50 years ago, in the Northern part of Spain, there wasn't much food to go around, the grain was for the people to make bread, the bran for the pigs and the grass fields for the cows... The horses had no choice but to settle to graze on what everyone else didn't want to eat... :rolleyes:

In the winter they people would cut this plant and put it through a type of mill to chop it up for the horses, since it's a very thorny plant. I don't know what it's called but I imagine it exists in the UK... so here goes a link so you know what I'm blabbering about!!! hehehe :cool:

http://www.galeon.com/paira/plan15.htm#CARACTERÍSTICAS%20DO%20TOXO.

Anyways, another curious thing I've found out, is that before everyone had cars, things were transported by horses... lol ;) and they had to walk very far, usually carrying goods on their backs... well supposely, when the horses were pretty nearly exhausted... and wouldn't walk anymore... They'd give them ... A bowl of bread soaked in wine... with a bit of sugar!!! :D :cool: And by the sounds of it... it got them a going!!! :o

Any other old fashion stories out there about feeding???

[puzzles]

what a fascinating topic, eh?

looking back at my ancient Your Horse magazines (well, ;-) they are - mostly - in black and white, from the late 1980s-1990s), the amounts of oats, barley, and bran in particular, all being left for the owners to balance themselves . . . i didn't know a soul who didn't stable their horses as part of their feeding routine.

[parsharainbow]

We used to buy straights and mix them up I seem to remember :confused:

I remember feeding maize and dried peas (the green flakes you now get in rabbit food) oats and barley, oh and I'll never forget the smell of cooked linseed *bleeugh*