Answers Straight From The Horses Mouth!
Potatoes are a staple vegetable of the modern world. Fries, chips, mashed, roasted, boiled—humans love potatoes, and I’m certainly no different. I love them in all their forms, so much that I even grow my own. While harvesting some of my own the other day with my son, he suddenly asked me if we could …
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 yes, a horse is an herbivore. Horses only eat plants, mainly hay, grass, and grains, and no meat. Their digestive system is not made to process meat, and eating meat could make a horse very ill. Luckily, horses are very happy to eat plants, including fruits for a treat! Although horse diets …