Answers Straight From The Horses Mouth!
Pat 
One of my favourite foods to snack on is cheese. My local cheese shop has the most incredible selection of cheese you can imagine, and I could easily spend hours deciding which ones to buy. It turns out, I’m not alone in this respect. Cheese is one of the world’s most popular foods and the …
The answer to this question is no, horses can’t eat chicken feed. Chicken feed can be extremely harmful to horses as it contains many ingredients that horses are not meant to consume. Horses also have extremely sensitive digestive systems, so anything other than hay or grass can cause problems for them. In this article we’ll …
The answer to this is unfortunately no, horses can’t eat chocolate. Chocolate contains a chemical called theobromine that horses have a sensitivity to, as well as high sugar content and caffeine which are both bad for horses too. Too much chocolate can be harmful to horses, so it is generally best avoided. Let’s take a …
The answer is no, horseshoes do not hurt horses. Many people worry about this when they see horseshoes being nailed on. Horses’ hooves are a lot like our fingernails. The tough outer part does not have any nerve endings, so when horses are trimmed and have new shoes put on they shouldn’t feel much more …
The answer is no, horses do not have fur. Instead, horses have hair. This is partly semantics, since air and fur are essentially the same thing on a molecular level. But there are several distinctions in the hair or fur animals have that direct how we refer to their coats. It sounds complicated, but we …