Fruits And Veggies...

[northernangel93]

what fruits and veggies can horses eat?? can any make them sick or colic??

[puzzles]

Um, not that I know of.

The most use ones include:

sweded
turnips
parsnips
bannanas
apples
pears
carrots

HOWEVER onions are poisonous (due to a chemical in them) and potato skins too starchy to be healthily fed, although some horses will take a liking to these.

(citrus fruits and not used much but don't harm the horse - mind you, anything fed excessively will harm the digestive system)

[capalldubh]

What Puzzles said - and basically use your imagination. Jackson ate a plum this afternoon, he often eats oranges (sometimes just the peel), but I tend only to give him little ones like clementines. He gets one piece of fruit and some veg most days.

Brassicas are not supposed to be very good for horses because they are high in sulphur which horses don't metabolize well - this would include broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, brussel sprouts etc. but I think in small quantities are fine. I give Jackson the stalks of the broccoli we eat at home which he quite likes.

He has eaten and enjoyed:

Apples, pears, plum, oranges, bananas, dried apricots, swede, celery, fennel, carrots, bagged salad leaves from the supermarket, parsley, mint.

Spinach is the only thing I've tried so far that he didn't eat - he picked the leaves out of his dinner and left them to one side :D

[Sarah1710]

There were several horses on my previous yard who enjoyed grapes and strawberries - never did them any harm!