Poll
Horsey Holiday
What are your horse's favorite holiday treats?(Select all that apply)
Total votes cast: 1418
Comments & Write-in Answers
manna pro apple wafers
12/20/2010 9:27:08 PM
banana
12/20/2010 9:09:28 PM
Because my horse is insulin resistant, I order her treats from www.SkodesHorseTreats.com.
12/20/2010 8:04:39 PM
Few treats as all are too fat.
12/20/2010 3:02:59 PM
He loves licorice flavored crunchies
12/20/2010 2:51:40 PM
warm mash with carrots, apples and molasses, and a smooch!
12/20/2010 2:33:36 PM
Carrots and only Honey Crisp apples and lots of Mrs Pastures cookies.
12/20/2010 11:12:01 AM
bananas
12/20/2010 10:58:33 AM
Nature Valley Granola Bites, BY FAR!!!
12/20/2010 12:11:34 AM
Watermelon rind
12/19/2010 10:32:02 PM
Christmas cookies (for humans!), brownies (ditto), etcetera.......
12/19/2010 9:16:36 PM
cookies
12/19/2010 6:12:03 PM
the finger sized alfalfa pellets
12/19/2010 4:49:15 PM
beet pulp mash without molasses
12/19/2010 4:47:27 PM
Our horses will eat as many apples & candy canes as we can give them :)
12/19/2010 4:22:42 PM
put filled stocking up in barn on each stall and feed on Christmas morning.
12/19/2010 11:47:16 AM
I avoid sugery treats.
12/19/2010 10:15:55 AM
All of the above!
12/19/2010 9:57:00 AM
a handful of lucerne chaff.
12/19/2010 4:47:56 AM
Bananas!
12/19/2010 2:07:19 AM
Warm peppermint bran mash
12/18/2010 10:10:58 PM
candy cane bran mash is a favorite around our house
12/18/2010 9:24:05 PM
Ginger Snaps
12/18/2010 9:03:31 PM
It's a daily ritual! apples and carrots!
12/18/2010 7:16:53 PM
All of the above!
12/18/2010 2:26:22 PM
long grooming & lots of carrots
12/18/2010 1:06:20 PM
Pears, Mrs. Pasture's Horse Cookies
12/18/2010 11:40:56 AM
manna pro apple treats or pears
12/18/2010 11:22:14 AM
veggie cut-offs
12/18/2010 1:18:24 AM
Anything I have, he will eat....
12/17/2010 11:59:19 PM
Bran mash with carrots, apples, oats and a peppermint
12/17/2010 9:46:58 PM
stud muffins and pears
12/17/2010 9:41:50 PM
my horses love bananas,I
12/17/2010 8:18:34 PM
Peppermints!
12/17/2010 8:18:31 PM
They Love warm bran mash! Like Hot oatmeal on a cold day!
12/17/2010 7:41:12 PM
Creme savers from grandma!
12/17/2010 6:28:07 PM
I put a little bag of horse cookies, and candy canes for each horse in my horse's boarding barn
12/17/2010 5:23:15 PM
And probably everything else!
12/17/2010 4:26:15 PM
hot oatmeal for breakfast
12/17/2010 3:42:15 PM
Bran Mash with Purina Senior feed, carrots and candy canes mixed. Oh yes, PRETZELS!!! Lots of them:)
12/17/2010 2:21:17 PM
Sweet potatoes
12/17/2010 2:01:29 PM
2 cups steeped bran 2 cups grain 2cups mixed slice apples & shreded carrots 1/4 cup brown sugar
12/17/2010 11:28:00 AM
Peppermints are his very favorite, but he also enjoys white wine vice Zenyatta's Guiness
12/17/2010 10:54:37 AM
carrot muffins and applesauce oat bars
12/17/2010 9:11:28 AM
Carrots for the biggies...the minis LOVE low-fat animal crackers...Merry Christmas!
12/17/2010 9:04:34 AM
stockings on the stall doors. We all give to our horsey friends. Homemade granola horse cookies.
12/17/2010 8:57:51 AM
Herbal horse treats
12/17/2010 3:05:16 AM
I try to stay away from outright sugar,but all others are up for grabs during the holidays!
12/17/2010 1:16:48 AM
warm beet pulp mash
12/16/2010 11:26:49 PM
beer
12/16/2010 10:59:13 PM
Cinnamon hard candies!
12/16/2010 10:58:05 PM
Bananas, cantaloup, watermelon, including the rinds, scrubbed and cut into small pieces.
12/16/2010 10:29:11 PM
cranberry sauce
12/16/2010 9:41:05 PM
Smarties Candies (sweet tarts)
12/16/2010 9:32:51 PM
Horse cookies and carrots!
12/16/2010 9:31:58 PM
Bananas!!
12/16/2010 8:26:58 PM
Wesley gets a "salad" on New Years Day: apples, carrots, & lettuce with a peppermint candy garnish!
12/16/2010 8:08:57 PM
all of the above!
12/16/2010 8:04:56 PM
horse cookies
12/16/2010 7:56:03 PM
Sweet Stripes peppermint candies!
12/16/2010 7:49:22 PM
peppermint
12/16/2010 7:16:20 PM
soft peppermint candy
12/16/2010 6:02:41 PM
a hot mash w/ beet pulp and alfalfa cubes 2X/day
12/16/2010 5:39:42 PM
Warm carrots on a cold morning!
12/16/2010 5:18:34 PM
pears, bananas, pink peppermints
12/16/2010 5:09:55 PM
don't give them treats
12/16/2010 4:35:35 PM
Peppermints!!
12/16/2010 4:20:05 PM
bananas
12/16/2010 4:16:39 PM
Horse wise? Lots of brushing, rubbing, kisses and carrots,and puting on Santa hats and bows.
12/16/2010 3:55:23 PM
Hoof snax are wonderful!!!!
12/16/2010 3:44:53 PM
my horses get soft and chewy carrot and oat molasses cookies!
12/16/2010 3:38:31 PM
My guys get apples and carrots every day with their grain. Bran mash in colder weather.
12/16/2010 3:34:23 PM
bananas and peppermints
12/16/2010 3:29:05 PM
Cheerios and peanut butter
12/16/2010 3:15:13 PM
oatmeal cookies
12/16/2010 3:11:01 PM
Strawberry Mini Wheats
12/16/2010 2:53:01 PM
Peppermint candy
12/16/2010 2:47:54 PM
I don't feed my horse sweet snacks
12/16/2010 2:41:21 PM
Carrots & more carrots - he doesn't like apples, peppermint - only carrots!
12/16/2010 1:43:35 PM
Nickers
12/16/2010 1:36:19 PM
Frito corn chips, popcorn,dry roasted peanuts & apple flavored horse treats
12/16/2010 10:04:56 AM
alfalfa mash with berry good alfalfa treats mixed in!
12/16/2010 7:28:05 AM
banana, black liciorous, peppermint candy
12/15/2010 9:04:57 PM
Range pellets
12/15/2010 9:03:18 PM
They luuuuurve Ginger Snap Cookies!
12/15/2010 8:51:42 PM
alfalfa cubes
12/15/2010 8:27:51 PM
Winnies cookies (organic)
12/15/2010 6:00:33 PM
Commercial treats are easiest fro us to find year round and our horses love the Dumor treats at TSC
12/15/2010 5:15:00 PM
Summer hols with my horse usually a beach!!
12/15/2010 4:22:39 PM
Anything peppermint!And a warm mash on Christmas Eve for all the horses in the barn!
12/15/2010 4:09:25 PM
Nothing out of ordinary. They don't know its xmas.
12/15/2010 2:54:32 PM
Bran mash with all the trimmings!
12/15/2010 2:49:02 PM
Apple-Carrot biscuits
12/15/2010 2:28:08 PM
Bananas
12/15/2010 1:39:20 PM
Too many horses to give "treats" it would cause a small riot
12/15/2010 1:12:37 PM
My horses and ponies have to geet their photos taken wearing Santa and Elf hats.
12/15/2010 12:31:43 PM
Apple and Oat
12/15/2010 12:06:58 PM
any peppermint flavored candy or treat, and of course apples & carrots
12/15/2010 11:30:23 AM
Peppermints
12/15/2010 11:19:44 AM
Candy Canes
12/15/2010 11:08:34 AM
Green and Red TicTacs
12/15/2010 10:49:48 AM
wintergreen lifesavers!
12/15/2010 10:30:22 AM
Holidays - schmolidays -- my kid is a Peppermint ADDICT!!! NEVER candy canes - too sharp !!!
12/15/2010 10:28:36 AM
apple bran mash w/ peppermints
12/15/2010 10:25:19 AM
Peppermint or sea salt Pony Pops - this is like equine crack for them!
12/15/2010 10:12:59 AM
Ginger snaps
12/15/2010 10:09:12 AM
Starlight peppermints!
12/15/2010 9:11:31 AM
They also like ginger snaps.
12/15/2010 8:50:04 AM
Peppermints are their favorites!
12/15/2010 8:49:20 AM
Every day is a Holiday as far as our horses know.....
12/15/2010 8:41:19 AM
pears
12/15/2010 8:34:50 AM
Bananas are his fave
12/15/2010 8:17:37 AM
Calf manna horse treats
12/15/2010 6:53:43 AM
molasses 'lollypops'
12/15/2010 5:54:25 AM
Feedmark Herbal Horse Treats
12/15/2010 5:15:22 AM
NIcker Makers
12/15/2010 4:34:39 AM
Malted milk biscuits!
12/15/2010 2:32:01 AM
corn on the cob
12/15/2010 1:38:29 AM
Just regular sweet feed.
12/15/2010 1:37:08 AM
put a stocking on a stall
12/15/2010 12:20:07 AM
Sugar
12/15/2010 12:03:09 AM
flavored oatmeal w/real molasses
12/14/2010 11:48:16 PM
Candy cane peices
12/14/2010 10:39:23 PM
Applesauce with cinnamon
12/14/2010 10:23:15 PM
Extra Hugs apple treats or extra handouts of grain
12/14/2010 10:13:53 PM
my horses are too fat though so I quit making them!
12/14/2010 10:11:54 PM
bananas!
12/14/2010 10:03:00 PM
stud muffins
12/14/2010 9:44:43 PM
sweet potatoes
12/14/2010 9:23:45 PM
every night we sing "Santa Claus is Coming to Town"
12/14/2010 8:58:42 PM
My Shetland loves pepermints, my horse won't touch them.
12/14/2010 8:48:58 PM
Hay cubes, lettuce and celery have the same 'rush' at the gate
12/14/2010 8:09:11 PM
Fresh oranges cut into wedges
12/14/2010 8:04:33 PM
Winnie's cookies
12/14/2010 7:59:34 PM
Treats made with bran, carrots, apples, flour and honey.
12/14/2010 7:59:15 PM
pears
12/14/2010 7:56:47 PM
they get apples bran carrots peppermints and home made treats
12/14/2010 7:53:07 PM
I have a fake fur collar I made for my first horse with bells on it,(45 years ago) I get it out and
12/14/2010 7:51:22 PM
mints
12/14/2010 7:44:38 PM
Skodes Horse Cookies
12/14/2010 7:36:06 PM
alfalfa treats
12/14/2010 7:29:52 PM
We go to the barn on Christmas day and become an automatic treat vending machine!
12/14/2010 7:27:28 PM
All of my animals will do anything for gingersnaps!
12/14/2010 7:23:09 PM
frosted ginger snaps, peppermints and donuts
12/14/2010 7:12:49 PM
Sugar free peppermints
12/14/2010 7:10:55 PM
I like giving carrots, the horses favorite's are all of the above.
12/14/2010 7:04:06 PM
peppermint horse treats
12/14/2010 7:01:51 PM
Our horses love jelly sandwiches! Especially strawberry!
12/14/2010 6:55:14 PM
Horse cookies
12/14/2010 6:41:58 PM
a little extra grain helps too
12/14/2010 6:41:49 PM
Mrs Pasture Cookies
12/14/2010 6:37:38 PM
don't get treats just for no reason use mana pro for rewards
12/14/2010 6:32:18 PM
licorice treats, ginger snaps
12/14/2010 6:31:47 PM
My Arabian discovered peppermint over the weekend-I've created a monster!
12/14/2010 6:28:59 PM
boiled oats with bran, carrots & apples, molasses & Guinness - they lick the bucket clean!
12/14/2010 6:27:56 PM
She does not get food treats. She loves to be groomed and have her face rubber.
12/14/2010 6:26:09 PM
Mrs Pastures are the favoritesof mine
12/14/2010 6:23:36 PM
Horse cookies
12/14/2010 6:14:29 PM
my horses love peppermints any time Not just at Holidays
12/14/2010 5:58:39 PM
Mrs. Pasture's cookies
12/14/2010 5:53:58 PM
Cracklin Oat Bran cereal --every horse in my barn is addicted to it!
12/14/2010 5:52:15 PM
apple treats( bought at feed store)
12/14/2010 5:48:37 PM
Morning time with the horses just walking in the cold out in the paddock, giving them the day off.
12/14/2010 5:45:59 PM
Chaff, mineral powder, Speedibeet, carrots and apples mixed with warm water!
12/14/2010 5:41:21 PM
All packaged horse treats, several kinds of cereal, sugar cubes, etc.
12/14/2010 5:40:33 PM
probiotic cookies
12/14/2010 5:40:17 PM
Good & Plenty Candy
12/14/2010 5:39:12 PM
sugar cubes
12/14/2010 5:38:01 PM
My mare loves crunchy horse cookies all year!
12/14/2010 5:33:05 PM
They like Peppermint too.
12/14/2010 5:32:55 PM
Pears from my trees
12/14/2010 5:29:14 PM
Sliced apples and carrots mixed in a bran mash with molasses.
12/14/2010 5:28:31 PM
An apple a day...or several...keep colic away!
12/14/2010 5:22:58 PM
health food - alfalfa cubes
12/14/2010 5:21:59 PM
Frosted mini wheats
12/14/2010 5:11:52 PM
apple with breakfast
12/14/2010 5:11:50 PM
they love raw pasta like rigatoli
12/14/2010 5:03:58 PM
Du Mor Horse cookies and Apple treats
12/14/2010 4:59:50 PM
Holiday bran mash with peppermints, apple juice, apples, carrots, molasses...yum
12/14/2010 4:52:26 PM
All 3 of my horses love peppermints.
12/14/2010 4:51:05 PM
All of the above!
12/14/2010 4:49:04 PM
horse licorice
12/14/2010 4:46:52 PM
My Horses ALL Love "Peppermint Treats" All year long!
12/14/2010 4:41:31 PM
molasses/honey
12/14/2010 4:37:34 PM
warm alfalfa cube mash
12/14/2010 4:35:17 PM
One loves Granny Smith apples and the other one will eat just about anything sweet.
12/14/2010 4:32:21 PM
Buckeye peppermint treats
12/14/2010 4:32:16 PM
Oats with DAC Oil soaked over it
12/14/2010 4:31:48 PM
ginger snap cookies
12/14/2010 4:31:28 PM
beer
12/14/2010 4:30:47 PM
A mix of bran mash with carrots and apples results in a lot of slurping and messy noises- so cute!
12/14/2010 4:26:52 PM
she's taken to eating the birdseed from the village of bird feeders, to taunt the geldings
12/14/2010 4:25:51 PM
peppermints
12/14/2010 4:24:58 PM
anything...lol
12/14/2010 4:24:14 PM
they get these not just at the holidays
12/14/2010 4:23:36 PM
nectarines, bananas that he peels himself, muffins, sunflower seeds
12/14/2010 4:23:30 PM
I believe all 11 think Licorice is their number one choice
12/14/2010 4:19:18 PM
Horse cookies, of course!
12/14/2010 4:19:17 PM
all of the above!
12/14/2010 4:19:08 PM
Granola bars! Can't be beat.
12/14/2010 4:17:14 PM
I always make a hot bran mash with carrots, apples and a few peppermints on the top.
12/14/2010 4:17:12 PM
Bread - they love it and chase if you throw it like a frisbee
12/14/2010 4:15:53 PM
horse cookies
12/14/2010 4:14:37 PM
Is also a cookie monster!
12/14/2010 4:09:54 PM
Bananas
12/14/2010 4:07:57 PM
Mrs. Pastures cookies
12/14/2010 4:07:29 PM
all above, plus anything he can grab, towels, blankets, my jacket-he's only 3 : )
12/14/2010 4:06:00 PM
Peppermint Horse treats.
12/14/2010 4:02:51 PM
SUGAR CUBES!
12/14/2010 3:59:40 PM
grahm crackers
12/14/2010 3:59:22 PM
pineapple and mango candied fruit
12/14/2010 3:52:28 PM
molasses cookies
12/14/2010 3:51:31 PM
My horse will just about stand on his head for Sweet Tarts
12/14/2010 3:46:33 PM
all of the above!
12/14/2010 3:43:37 PM
Peppermints/Candy Canes and his annual Uncle Jimmy's Hanging Ball
12/14/2010 3:40:45 PM
Alfalfa Cubes
12/14/2010 3:39:54 PM
Granola bars
12/14/2010 3:34:44 PM
peppermints, dry rigatoni, marshmallows, gingersnap cookies, oatmeal cookies, shredded wheat
12/14/2010 3:20:19 PM
Winnie Cookies she loves them, thay are made for horse and are healthy.
12/14/2010 3:18:34 PM
Sugar cubes
12/14/2010 3:17:05 PM
My horses always get a nice bran mash on Christmas Eve!!
12/14/2010 3:14:05 PM
Nicker Makers by Purina
12/14/2010 11:49:35 AM
My horses are spoiled they get a little holiday bucket of treats
12/14/2010 11:35:29 AM
Carrots with tops - he hasn't seen anything green in a while
12/14/2010 11:08:42 AM
IR horses cnnot have such treats so lots of extra loving.
12/14/2010 10:36:25 AM
My horse LOVES grapes...they're his favorite treat all year long!
12/14/2010 9:28:20 AM
My horses get a carrot treat every day after their p.m.meal for giving me their feeding dish
12/14/2010 9:06:50 AM
oatmeal cookies
12/14/2010 2:34:02 AM
Licorice
12/14/2010 2:25:06 AM
Real black licorice and Ricolla cough drops
12/14/2010 2:18:21 AM
she loves any type of treat especially horse snax and carrots
12/14/2010 12:18:55 AM
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