A question about horses

[luvMIdog]

These two horses moved in next door . Their owners don't live there, but they left these horses in the pasture. I have a bunch of raw carrots my daughter brought and I don't really eat them much. Would it be okay for me to give them a couple of carrots, or might that mess up their bowels? I heard that you aren't supposed to change their diet & that it can knot up their bowels or something like that.


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[Motley13]

1. I think you will have a couple of new friends

carrots are nutritious for horses.
I double checked before responding.

[luvMIdog]

3. thank you :) I like my new neighbors :)

[drray23]

2. i had horses for years and would use carrots to

reward them during training. They love them. As long as you dont dump a 200 lbs bin of carrots in the field they will appreciate. You can hand it to them, they will love it.

[luvMIdog]

4. Thank you :)

[hunter]

5. It's always a fine thing to have horse friends.

Ask the owners if you see them around, but I wouldn't worry much.

[Major Nikon]

6. I was always told never to hand feed horses

...as it teaches them to bite. So we just never did this and never had problems with our horses biting although this may have been coincidental.

[Motley13]

7. I don't have a lot of interaction with horses

but they mostly have soft lips & are gentle. I have run across a biter though, but I think it is unusual

[libisnota4letterword]

8. Hand feeding

I'd love to have your neighbors. Put the carrot on the palm of your hand and keep your hand flat. You will get to feel their nibbles and you are less likely to get bitten.

[Rhiannon12866]

12. That's the way I was taught, too...

My friend who has horses also gives her horses apples.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

9. Contact and ask the owners first.🥕

[SecularMotion]

10. Comments 8 & 9

Check with the owners to see if it's okay to feed the horses

and if so, offer the carrot to the horse with a flat palm so it doesn't grab a finger by mistake.

Do they have a source of water there?

[luvMIdog]

11. Thank you to everyone who has helped me with advice and yes I will ask the owners I think

that's a good idea. It's hard to catch them there. I may just leave a note on the fence. & Yes they have water

[Duppers]

13. So sweet of you.

I think they'll love you.

[AirmensMom]

14. Ask the owners.

I'd want to know if someone was treating my horse because we already give her plenty of treats. Yes, we hand feed her and she is spoiled rotten. Still, I want to know what she's eating. She would happily take a carrot from a stranger, and even more happily take a ginger snap or apple or pear.

[luvMIdog]

15. I left a note on the fence for them with my phone number :)

[AirmensMom]

16. Good idea.

They'll probably be fine with it, as long as they know.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. Horses like ginger snaps?

[AirmensMom]

19. Well, mine does.

I caught my husband sitting next to her eating them and she had her head over his shoulder, sort of begging. Next thing, he gave her one. So I told him that if he's going to feed them to her, we're going to start getting the store-brand ones. I have the cutest pic of them both "reading" the box. Turns out that the dogs like them too, and at $2/box, they're a lot cheaper than dog or horse snacks. Now I put them in a sealed container and leave them on a table in the barn. Husbands, hounds, and horses, all happy with the same cookie.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. LOL!

I have cats. I don't think they like ginger snaps. One of them likes peanut butter, though.

[A HERETIC I AM]

17. YouTube is a wonderful thing.

(BTW< I agree with the others who said ask the owner first)

[Amishman]

20. Lucky! Horses are great neigh-bors and wonderful animals.

One of the benefits of living out in the countryside