Horse club

[casportpony]

Hey everyone, can you go check out this thread?
Attention Horse & Pony Owners!

 

[FarmerGirl101]

hello beauties! (and riders/owners as well I suppose)

if youd pardon my interruption, I had a horse question that a quick google didnt solve (tl;dr bold at end)

basically I've dewormed my chickens with safeguard - the egg withdrawal period for humans is 19 days. so now I have 19 days of trash eggs that my girls worked hard to lay and I feel awful just throwing them out. I had an idea that maybe I could feed them to the horses because safeguard is safe for horses. I've met people here who eat the eggs themselves with no ill effects so I assume the dosage is negligible but would be even more insignificant compared to the size of a horse.

before I bring this idea up to my SO, I wanted to see if horses could even eat eggs at all and I'm getting crazy strong mixed reviews, from it being a staple to racehorse diets overseas to it being the worst idea in the world.

obviously i wouldnt want to overload them with any new food because colic, so not trying to be insane.

I personally would not feed eggs to horses period. Horses' main diets consists of forage. In the wild they wouldn't eat eggs normally. If you want the nutritional benefits for them of feeding them eggs give them grain and supplements instead. In short I don't think it would be wise for you to feed your horses eggs although it is your call in the end I strongly don't recommend it.

 

[littledog]

Same here - horses are herbivores, and their intestinal tract (already really sensitive to colic, ulcers, etc.) is not set up to digest animal products. Still, some of the ingredients in high-protein horse pellets can sometimes contain animal products.

Some overseas countries might not have as much access to high-protein feeds and their pastures might be depleted, so maybe they need to supplement with things like eggs, for high-performance horses like racehorses?

If you don't want to waste the eggs with Safeguard in them, maybe scramble them and add them to bird seed in a feeder, rather than feeding them to your horses.

 

[Duckbreeder2020]

My name is Gypsy. I am currently between horses. I am training a nice little Quarter Horse gelding for my sister-in-law right now though.

Do you have PicsArt?

 

[ackie]

I tried adding it to their feed one day and Rags did not care whatsoever but Eos was offended, so I'm not gunna keep trying it. The point was to give them extra winter calories but Eos not liking his feed is the opposite effect.

I ended up giving a couple to the dogs & I'm cooking the rest for the chickens.

 

[FarmerGirl101]

I tried adding it to their feed one day and Rags did not care whatsoever but Eos was offended, so I'm not gunna keep trying it. The point was to give them extra winter calories but Eos not liking his feed is the opposite effect.

I ended up giving a couple to the dogs & I'm cooking the rest for the chickens.

I've heard that fermenting chicken feed can help give them some extra calories. I may be completely wrong but it could be worth a shot to feed it to your chickens when they are molting or in the winter. I use my chicken feed and I add some scratch to it

 

[ackie]

I've heard that fermenting chicken feed can help give them some extra calories. I may be completely wrong but it could be worth a shot to feed it to your chickens when they are molting or in the winter. I use my chicken feed and I add some scratch to it

I meant for the horses. But thank you for the idea!

 

[Skye'sDucks]

I was trying to get a cute picture of Ginger today sporting her braids, but she kind of ruined the 'cute' part with her sour face. She has NOT wanted to work this week lol!

Just look how much happier she is with a mint (from yesterday)

 

[Skye'sDucks]

Hey all! Hope I'm not posting too much on this thread lol.

I just wanted to ask if anyone had any basic exercises/patterns they like to do with their horses, especially ones that focus a lot on bending/turning. I figured every equestrian does their own thing, so the stuff I typically do may be far different than what someone else does. I just thought it'd be fun to try something new with Ginger to keep things interesting with getting her used to bending as well as control. It'll obviously just take time for her to develop good muscle and learn these things, but there's no problem in mixing things up and having fun.

I do a lot of circles, particularly spirals, as well as doing things like cones and serpentines (weaving back and forth like a snake across the ring) with her already. I'm trying to focus on the things that help her more than helping me as a rider.

So if you have any exercises/patterns, please share if you want!

 

[FarmerGirl101]

Hey all! Hope I'm not posting too much on this thread lol.

I just wanted to ask if anyone had any basic exercises/patterns they like to do with their horses, especially ones that focus a lot on bending/turning. I figured every equestrian does their own thing, so the stuff I typically do may be far different than what someone else does. I just thought it'd be fun to try something new with Ginger to keep things interesting with getting her used to bending as well as control. It'll obviously just take time for her to develop good muscle and learn these things, but there's no problem in mixing things up and having fun.

I do a lot of circles, particularly spirals, as well as doing things like cones and serpentines (weaving back and forth like a snake across the ring) with her already. I'm trying to focus on the things that help her more than helping me as a rider.

So if you have any exercises/patterns, please share if you want!

I don't have any good ones but 101 Dressage Exercises for horse and rider is a great book that I recommend. Amazon link (kindle version because I'm too lazy to find the book version): https://www.amazon.com/Dressage-Exe...ise&qid=1612161236&sprefix=den,aps,258&sr=8-2