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Tips for Feeding Horses That are Messy Eaters
Q.My horse is a messy eater who’s always looking around between bites and dropping his feed on the ground during meal time. What suggestions do you have to prevent waste and ensure he gets all the feed he needs?
—Via e-mail
A.When we spend our hard-earned money on feed for our horses the last thing we want is for them to waste it by dropping it all over the ground! This can be a frustrating habit. Just this week I watched a mare at our trainer’s barn merrily toss her hay pellets out of her bucket. Evidently, she used to get grain she found more enticing, and she attacks her hay pellets in the vain hope that she’ll find the better tasting grain at the bottom of the bucket
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Written by:
Clair Thunes, PhD
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