tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post3086657723433218590..comments2024-01-29T03:04:24.219+11:00Comments on Flinders Family Freer: Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12315551718688781746noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post-86167379989761985182012-05-08T20:33:31.426+10:002012-05-08T20:33:31.426+10:00My comment about mongol ponies... and Black South ...My comment about mongol ponies... and Black South Africans - especially those in the mountains have very robust horses that would regard baled grass as newfangled luxury. But I am not going to experiment on her very thoroughbred horses.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12315551718688781746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post-67603250461307470372012-05-07T22:48:05.845+10:002012-05-07T22:48:05.845+10:00I had a Percheron and the worse thing you could do...I had a Percheron and the worse thing you could do to the boy was feed him modern food. The stable I had him at hired a new hand to feed the horses. She thought she was doing Baby a favor by feeding him Carb pellets instead of baled grass. One week later he was visibly heavier and the gas....oh my.<br /><br />It seems to me that the easy to keep, if you keep them away from modern foods, are those the Thoroughbred community looks down their nose at.Quilly_Mammothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17233071648647457818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post-30698639653714831422012-05-07T15:54:07.805+10:002012-05-07T15:54:07.805+10:00There are few sayings as wrong as "healthy as...There are few sayings as wrong as "healthy as a horse". :-) <br /><br />On the other hand I've dealt with more than a few who were far from delicate. There was the horse who loved hot dogs and taco sauce... Never once, despite some truely odd foods he ingested did he have the slightest problem. Others would colic at the mere glimpse of anything other than their regular diet.<br /><br />Odd or off foods are dangerous as horses cannot throw up. If they eat something that doesn't agree with them they cannot easily get rid of it.Who Me?https://www.blogger.com/profile/10558914687147540333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post-34370184541587164542012-05-07T14:11:13.512+10:002012-05-07T14:11:13.512+10:00Yeah, got lecture already :-). When you consider t...Yeah, got lecture already :-). When you consider the Mongol pony... you have to wonder about what we've done to them.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12315551718688781746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post-2869127407292786382012-05-07T09:59:12.694+10:002012-05-07T09:59:12.694+10:00One thing about horses (in the unlikely event your...One thing about horses (in the unlikely event your friends didn't lecture you about it.) Never over feed. Never. The wretched things have horribly delicate tummies. Especially if they're getting all the fancy high vitamins and minerals and protein and fats and such . . . always err on the conservative side. If you have some horrible emergency and miss a feeding. Do. Not. Double. Feed. Just give them their regular single serving size and they'll be fine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com