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Post by jodie1084 on Jan 4, 2008 21:16:00 GMT 1
Hi all!
i have been feeding my horse about 10 - 12 carrots a day on average but was told by my friend that i shouldn't feed that many as they are full of sugar and will make him hyper? ( or even more than he is)
just wondered if anyone has had problems with them or if they don't feed them for the same reasons?
i just assumed that they were of some benefit for the vitamins that maybe lost in the winter?
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Post by Casper on Jan 4, 2008 21:19:13 GMT 1
I've heard that carrots contain quite a lot of sugar and can make some horses more hyper. Ours get the occasional one, that's all, so not much help to you really Jodie. Hopefully others will be along shortly to give you some good opinions!
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Post by big e on Jan 4, 2008 21:20:20 GMT 1
All 6 of mine love carrots, eat loads and are not overweight or fizzy, parsnips on the other hand make them very windy and actually give my cob a bit of fizz (if you don't mind a forward going noisy ride )
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Post by jodie1084 on Jan 4, 2008 21:25:16 GMT 1
By the sounds of it i glad that my horse toka doesnt like parsnips!!
have tried feeding other veg peelings but without much success. is there anything that they cant have veg wise?
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Post by specialsparkle3 on Jan 4, 2008 21:32:46 GMT 1
Mine come in from the field to 1/2 lb of sliced carrots ready in their manger every day. that is around 2 middle sized carrots each per day. Feeding carrots when they come in, also has the effect of keeping the one who comes in first, settle until the others join it. Mine would go on strike without them
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Post by tracycope on Jan 4, 2008 21:41:38 GMT 1
All 6 of mine love carrots, eat loads and are not overweight or fizzy, parsnips on the other hand make them very windy and actually give my cob a bit of fizz (if you don't mind a forward going noisy ride ) Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Brilliant!!!
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Post by Louise C on Jan 4, 2008 21:45:13 GMT 1
They can give some horses a real high because of the sugar content - apparently it's better to feed organic as well. Flynn gets them sometimes - he loves most peelings! The only things I don't feed are potato and onions and leeks - they are not supposed to be good for them. It's worth cutting them out for a while and see if it makes a difference.
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Post by horsey123 on Jan 4, 2008 21:58:11 GMT 1
yep full of sugar
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Post by em&ed on Jan 4, 2008 22:01:33 GMT 1
mine has carrots and seems ok whether he has them or not. I did a trial run with no carrots as I'd read on here that they can make some horses get too fizzy, but he was just the same. I once read in a horse mag that you should never give your horse cabbage, but I mentioned it to someone who said she always gave her horse cabbage! So I don't know....
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Post by lolamae on Jan 4, 2008 22:31:55 GMT 1
Yep.
Carrots do have a high sugar content and can hype up some horses.
I had an arab that couldn't even have a whiff of them as he came up in huge lumps. I had to have a permanent warning on his door about it as most people think feeding a slice of carrot is harmless.
I don't feed them at all now.
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Post by jodie1084 on Jan 4, 2008 22:38:07 GMT 1
hi thanks for all the comments! might cut down with the carrots then to see if it has any affects? just finding winter very difficult at the moments as it is my first winter with toka. just need to get a right combination of feeding and exercise!
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Post by fin on Jan 4, 2008 22:44:31 GMT 1
THere's a lot of water in them so they're not HUGELY high in sugar, though probably too much for some horses. Some neds also seem to be sensitive to the amounts of pesticides and fertiliser in them (and if it's fertiliser, organic doesn't help really!) I've got an IR laminitic so don't really feed them at all--better safe than sorry I suppose
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Post by Zoe RA on Jan 4, 2008 23:20:06 GMT 1
They really are high in sugar. They apparently used them in cakes during the war when sugar was scarce because they are so sweet!
Many of the horses that I have worked with have benefited enormously from having carrots cut out of their diets completely, but as with any thing like this, some horses can eat sack loads with no ill effects, some only have to sniff the sack to be off the wall.
I echo Louise C, try cutting them out for a couple of weeks and see if there is a difference in behavior, then introduce them again to see if your horse changes back again.
I have to say that most of my owners don't usually want to see what happens if they go back to feeding carrots though - for some strange reason!
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Post by Liz on Jan 4, 2008 23:59:50 GMT 1
Each winter I gave a few carrots daily in their feed to all of my horses which ranged from anglo arabs to TB crosses and heavier types such as vanners and a cob Normande and can truthfully say they all loved them and I did not notice any change in their behaviour or health!
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Post by Amanda Dolby on Jan 5, 2008 0:25:02 GMT 1
On my vets advice - IF we feed carrots we only feed organic. Agree with Finn about the pesticde and fertilsier content. Carrots are THE BEST veg for holding on to pesticides. Sorry to all those out there making a living from carrots!
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