Fruit and Veg for Horses

[Peanut]

Apart from the usual carrots and apples, does anyone know what other fruit and veg are safe to feed to horses?

[ANN H]

I've been told that potatoes and their peelings don't do them much good, and I've started giving swede/turnip rather than apples (they can be quite rich), but apart from that I think you can give them virtually anything. Our YO gives us all the cuttings from her Sunday dinner (broccoli, cauliflower, etc), and being a horsey person herself I'm sure she wouldn't do that if it were going to do them any harm!

[dcp]

I've known horses to eat oranges but personally I wouldn't as I'd be concerned about the acid in them. Turnips, carrots, apples and lettace there was a thread on here not so long ago about feeding horses bananas!

[aliw]

We give ours the peelings from sunday dinner too. I gave Treasure a piece of banana the other day and he liked it.
Bella and Treasure won't eat runner bean peelings, but Cobber and Magic will. I think it depends on the fusiness of the horse!

[out of the blue]

i feed blue oranges and bananas the oranges were fine!

[chewitmonster]

Bananas are good for putting on weight on a horse! Silver hates them though so I give the ends to the dog instead!

He loves pears, apples, carrots, turnips.

There's also swedes, parsnips, cabbage(?), broccoli etc. There is general rule for fruits that anything containing a stone isn't too good for them but not sure how reliable this is. I avoid the acidic fruits as well.

Wonder if they could eat things like watermelon and melon? hmm...

[saldec]

I feed Perrie, apples, carrots, turnip, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower.
She loves melon but i do take the seeds out first.

She absolutely hates banana.
She just spits them out.