What can horses eat? what cant they eat?

Question

the title tells all.

Answer 1

http://www.horses-and-horse-information....

This site has a long list

Answer 2

Horses can eat:

All grasses(thin stemmed), Bermuda's, blue stem, oats(yes oats are a grass) etc.

Grains, wheat, barley, corn, soy, etc.

Legumes(if cut and dried, green on the stem legumes horses don't like the taste), alfalfa and peanuts(yes peanut hay is great its just not as pretty as alfalfa)

Others

sugar beat pulp, cotton seed

Horses can not eat

Broad leaf plants, most broad leaf plants are poisonous like Nightshade, water hemlock, lupines, milk weeds.

Stone fruits, peaches, apricots etc.

There is far more for each list but these are the basics, I would recommend going to http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.... for a more detailed list.

Answer 3

They trend to like most non-poisonous photosynthetic organisms.  Don't feed them saphrophytic organisms, known poisons (castor beans comes to mind), thorny plants, plants with white sap or berries, plants with leaves arranged in threes, or woody plants.  You might avoid anything that resembles a tomato, parsley, or carrot...many plants resembling these are toxic.  You can feed them any fruiot or vegetable that you will eat, all grains, hay, straw, alfalfa, and most grasses.

They don't eat meat, barbed wire, or computer parts.

Answer 4

Thats simple to answer!  Anything has has been approved by the ag. dept.!  Anything else?  Your on your own!  Its your money to pay the vet!  I bet the home made recipe people wont help with your vet bills!

Answer 5

They cant eat lamps, televisions, KoolAid, condoms, cell phones, tampons, babies, sharp objects, hobos, stuffed animals, microwaves, forks, dinosaures, Wii's, calenders, bed frames, computers, pianoes, snowboards, guitars, famous people, chinese, prom dresses, kurt cobain, eye liner, carpet, older brothers, candles, hair dye, William Collier, credit cards, feet, pillows, old people toenails, chairs, raincoats, tea, golfers, fetuses, firemen, strippers, nuns, desks, Jimmy Nuetron, Spongebob, and s*x toys.

Thats about it...

Answer 6

And yet...a different type of list...Don't know exactly what you are wondering they can or can't eat...

SAFE

~ Apples

~ Apricots

~ Bananas

~ Beets

~ Blackberries

~ Blueberries

~ Carrots

~ Celery

~ Cherries

~ Coconut

~ Corn

~ Dates

~ Figs

~ Grapes

~ Grapefruit

~ Horseradish

~ Lettuce

~ Mangoes

~ Oranges

~ Peaches

~ Pears

~ Pineapple

~ Plums

~ Pumpkin

~ Raisins

~ Rutabagas

~ Squash

~ Strawberries

~ Sweet Potatoes

~ Turnips

~ Watermelon (both rind and pulp)

UNSAFE

~ Avocado

~ Onions

~ Potatoes

~ Persimmons

~ Rhubarb

~ Tomatoes

~ Any other members of the nightshade family which includes peppers

~ Broccoli or Cauliflower (may cause gas, which in turn may cause gas colic)

When in doubt, do NOT feed it!

Syrup should be fine if you're using it to mix something or mask something.  But I'd get molasses if I had to do that...

Answer 7

It is important to check in and around the edge of paddocks for any plants which may be harmful to horses or ponies. Any harmful plants should be dug out and removed. The following plants are just some which are poisonous to horses and ponies in varying degrees. Also there is food plants mixed in there that horses are allergic too. They only are allergic to some foods like potatos and Rhubarb. etc. Hope I helped!

Acorns

Alder Buckthorn

Black Bryony

Black Nightshade

Box

Bracken

Broom

Buckthorn

Buttercup

Celandine - Greater

Charlock

Cherry Laurel

Chickweed

Clover

Columbine

Corncrockle

Cowbane

Cuckoo Pint

Darnel

Deadly Nightshade

Foxglove

Ground Ivy

Groundsel

Hellebore

Hemlock

Hemlock Water-Dropwort

Hemp Nettle

Henbane

Herb Paris

Horse Radish

Horsetail

Iris

Laburnum

Larkspur

Lily of the Valley

Linseed

Lupin

Marsh Marigold

Meadow Saffron

Melilot

Mercury

Monk's Hood

Oak

Pimpernel

Poppy

Potato

Privet

Ragwort

Rhubarb

Rododendron

Rush

St Johns Wort

Sorrel

Spurge

Thorn Apple

White Bryony

Woody Nightshade

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