More than 1,900 readers of TheHorse.com responded to a poll asking, “What treats do you give your horses?”

• Carrots 79.53% (1,570)
  
• Horse biscuits/packaged treats 59.73% (1,179)
  
• Apples 68.64% (1,355)
  
• Mints 35.31% (697)
  
• Other 25.38% (501)
  
• None 4.15% (82)

Readers shared what their favorite treat to give their horses are in the comments below.

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• apples
  
• mints
  
• corn on the cob
  
• Herbal packaged treats
  
• apples
  
• insulin resistance minimizes the treats and is limited to vegetables only, no more cookies or candy
  
• carrots
  
• Apples
  
• bread, watermelon, strawberries, an occasional glazed yeast donut or cinnamon swirl/bun/bread
  
• Low sugar/starch horse cookies.
  
• Apples
  
• nature vallet sweet and salty peanut butter bars
  
• Pepermint
  
• sweet feed
  
• sometimes stud muffins
  
• Holllowed apples filled with honey
  
• carrots, we do carrot stretches- gv
  
• bread oatd
  
• flaxsnacks
  
• handful of Triple Crown Lite or sunflower seeds
  
• sugar cubes
  
• complete feed rolls
  
• Carrots with every meal; 2 small cookies when leaving at the gate
  
• carrots
  
• Carrots
  
• Diva is a sucker for Sour Skittles.
  
• Skodes horse cookies
  
• Apples
  
• grapes, watermelon, corn cobs.
  
• My horse LOVES Uncle Jimmy’s Hangin Horse Balls!!
  
• Watermellon, cereals, etc
  
• Apples and carrots
  
• apples
  
• apples
  
• Appleez & Oats
  
• oranges
  
• mints
  
• Pears, bananas, peaches, etc.
  
• crackers, bread, potatoe chips, bananas, candy, toasted peanut butter and jelly sandwich
  
• licorice
  
• apples
  
• Winnie’s Cookies
  
• Carrots
  
• the occasional cattle cube and grapes. The LOVE grapes.
  
• peppermints!
  
• fresh corn shucks (one or two) in the summer
  
• Alfalfa cubes
  
• I share whatever I’m eating with them. they’ll eat anything that won’t eat them first!
  
• Apples!!!!
  
• Their favorite treat? Whatever yummy thing lands in their feed bucket! It’s all good….
  
• Very sparingly, but for “celebration” purposes I have given a whole watermelon, corncobs etc.
  
• 1/2 apple most nights
  
• apples
  
• peppermints
  
• peppermint or apple
  
• Bananas
  
• crackers, cereal, nuts
  
• Alphalpa cubes
  
• silver regent
  
• winnies cookies
  
• apples
  
• carrots
  
• Fruit & Nut Chewy Granola Bars
  
• Pears, my thoroughbred LOVES pears
  
• alfalfa cubes
  
• Purina NickerMakers
  
• carrots
  
• apples
  
• Apples & carrots
  
• My horses love apple flavored treats
  
• They love gingersnap cookies.
  
• My horses LOVE watermelon; the boys also like apples, girls prefer the carrots & cookies
  
• My Tennesee Walker’s favorite treat is a sip of beer in the summer
  
• carrots
  
• home-made treats
  
• apples
  
• Honey and Oats Granola bars
  
• hugs with apples
  
• It has to be apples. My horses can smell them in my coat pockets when I walk in the barn.
  
• Peppermints, molasses, ginger snaps
  
• canteloupe melons
  
• peppermints
  
• apples
  
• ANYTHING!
  
• hay stretcher
  
• Peaches,Pineapple,Strawberries
  
• bran mash with goodies
  
• POPSICKLES
  
• Unbridled Horse Treats Oats/Apple & Oats/Molasses Falvors
  
• carrots in the morning and apples in the agternoon and trimmings from what ever fresh veggies we eat
  
• Winnie’s supplement cookies
  
• apples
  
• apples
  
• any treat
  
• molasses
  
• peppermint flavored treats
  
• apple nuggets
  
• licorice flavor treats
  
• Apples
  
• Fuji apples
  
• purpose treat? My “treat” is a “Good boy!!” to reward, LOUD “(horses name) BAD!!! as “punishment”.
  
• Homemade & Molasses!
  
• I feed Forage First from ADM my horse is hooked on these treats.
  
• flax snacks
  
• carrots
  
• rubs and pets
  
• apples
  
• apple juice
  
• coffee
  
• Raisins!!!
  
• they really like beets and turnips and things like that
  
• chocolate
  
• carrots
  
• We make our own treats
  
• watermelon
  
• alfafa cubes
  
• mints
  
• black oil sunflower seeds
  
• Bananas and black licorice! oh, and clove cookies!!
  
• Blueberry bagels !
  
• Omalene 100
  
• carrots
  
• they really like dates, and my Arab loves mentholated cough drops
  
• pancakes
  
• fresh apples!
  
• pears/parsley/radish greens
  
• both
  
• alfalfa cubes
  
• oatmeal cookies 1 or 2
  
• bread
  
• corn chips, banannas, cookies, grapes, watermelon, strawberries,candy,cantalope
  
• carrots
  
• A very rare animal cracker. My horse is insulin resistant.
  
• Bananas
  
• frosted mini wheats (cereal)
  
• sugar cubes
  
• homemade treats & peanut butter sandwich
  
• carrots
  
• homemade granola
  
• They’re horses! They like it all.
  
• oats and sugarcubes
  
• My horses like apples, carrots, and other fruits like oranges, watermelon, honeydew melon, etc.
  
• carrots
  
• peppermints
  
• mints
  
• animal crackers
  
• alfalfa cubes
  
• Apples from our orchard
  
• carrots and apples
  
• Nickermakers
  
• sweet potatoes
  
• bananas, pears, peeled canteloupe
  
• Dumor oatmeal, honey, raisin cookies
  
• mints or apples
  
• Ginger Snaps, I’ll share a piece of NutraGrain Bar
  
• 16 percent horse crunchies work great
  
• Cheese crackers with peanut cente, maple nut candy
  
• I use mint flavored prebought treats cause its the only one they will eat
  
• various fruit so I make fruit salad
  
• apples
  
• carrots
  
• apples I think
  
• peppermint flavored snacks
  
• alfalfa pellets
  
• carrots
  
• winnies cookies
  
• all 3 ive picked. ive also tried cabbage which they seem 2 like : )
  
• LICORICE BISCUITS
  
• grapes
  
• Almost everything
  
• He loves his carrots!!
  
• I also make homemade cookies for my horses
  
• carrots
  
• apples
  
• Watermelon…LOVES watermelon!! 🙂
  
• homemade horse cookies
  
• Carrots, apples and a lot of attention
  
• pears
  
• Home made non sugar cookies
  
• Carrots
  
• Share a Peanut Butter and jelly sandwich out on the trail…
  
• We rescue Cushings and IR horses, so no treats!
  
• peppermints
  
• apples
  
• apples
  
• oversized complete feed pellets
  
• werther’s butterscotch
  
• Apples, carrots, apple wafers
  
• bran mash twice over the winter months!
  
• packaged treats
  
• SUGAR CUBES AND ORANGE SLICES THE CANDY
  
• bananas
  
• Home made treats
  
• he loves ’em like a junkie!
  
• Make sugar free/insulin resistant
  
• all of the above plus ginger snaps
  
• I bake my own horse treats
  
• Sugar Cube
  
• nickerbites
  
• sweet potatoes
  
• horse cookies
  
• my horses will eat most anything offered by hand, but they prefer carrots.
  
• Licorice
  
• mints
  
• long carrots
  
• Everything! nothing that will hurt them though!
  
• black liquorice
  
• carrots
  
• CARROTS
  
• animal crackers, ginger snaps, cheez-it’s, strawberry licorce, sugar cookies
  
• apples
  
• peppermints
  
• Our thoroughbred adores peanut butter!
  
• We found out he likes Pizza Hut mints quite by accident…he smelled them on our breath!
  
• Handful of sweetfeed or pellets
  
• APPLES!!
  
• sugar cubes 1x a week
  
• Cracklin’ Oat Bran (Cereal) They are great little bites for positive behavior in training.
  
• Blaze loves peppermints
  
• homemade applesauce cookies
  
• carrots
  
• mana pro apple
  
• ginger snaps too
  
• bananas; oranges;
  
• fovorite is stud muffinsbut he does like tictacs and they are low in calories
  
• alfalfa cubes
  
• I prepare for them a veggy salad,with beets,patatoes,apples,turnips,carrots,tell really love it.
  
• My horses go crazy for licorice treats
  
• my horse get a carrot a day, and an occasional peppermint
  
• Oranges, watermelon, bananas
  
• Organic Fig Newtons
  
• apples & pears
  
• homemade treats
  
• Apple Wafers!!!
  
• sugar cubes
  
• White Candy mints!
  
• watermelon
  
• Green Apples! They make her mouth foamy!
  
• apples
  
• watermelon
  
• Apple Wafer Treats
  
• my ponies love everyting!
  
• Homemade biscuits
  
• alfalfa cubes
  
• grass!
  
• Nicker Makers
  
• Mints
  
• carrots
  
• Mine love beer, smarties and pears.
  
• grapes
  
• perrermint
  
• apples
  
• PEARS!! and Watermelon
  
• cookies
  
• apples
  
• starlight peppermints
  
• chopped lettuce, celery, molasses cookies, grapes and sweet corn are other treats. No favorites
  
• carrots, gingersnap cookies
  
• sugarcubes, old hard bread
  
• homemade and not too sweet
  
• carrotts
  
• Sunflower seeds
  
• Apples
  
• i give my horse prunes:low on the glycemic index (so it is good for IR and cushings horses)
  
• crackers/ salty stuff
  
• nabisco applebars, doritos,almost anything they want to try, my one horse likes yellow veggie curry!
  
• apple horse biscuits
  
• I also give a handful occasionally of human product sunflower seeds in shell.
  
• sugar cubes! 🙂
  
• apples
  
• watermelon, cantalope, honeydew, peaches, pears,
  
• mints
  
• Hay stretcher or hay cubes
  
• Treats teach horses to bite
  
• pumkin seeds – I have an IR/ Cushnoid horse that can’t have sugar, molasses, or carrots, apples etc.
  
• Mini Wheats w/brown sugar
  
• They love dried bread
  
• packaged treats but I hear they love bananas!
  
• Only during 40 mile+ competition carrots coreless apples, Mini Marshmellows, odd choc chip
  
• marshmallow, but I no longer give that
  
• he’s IR – tums make a great treat
  
• Loves his “cookies” & knows that treats go in his feed tub
  
• dumor apple and carrot treats
  
• Dry pasta chunks
  
• apple
  
• Blue Seal “pig noses” (Rounders)
  
• One of my Mules likes Banana peals!!
  
• alfalfa soup – soaked cubes in hot water w/carrots and apples cubed into it
  
• lettuce.parsley,hay cubes
  
• watermelon pears grapes and oranges
  
• black licorace
  
• pop tarts, peanut butter crackers!
  
• just an extra handful of grain
  
• Good ole carrots and apples.
  
• carrots
  
• apples and carrots
  
• licorice
  
• Ginger snaps
  
• Alfalfa cubes, Mrs. Pastures, Probios Treats, Vive Treats
  
• carrots
  
• bananna peels
  
• Pineapple, watermelon, grapes, raisins, bananas, blackberries, blueberries, etc.!
  
• Mints are their favorite, followed by apples
  
• Oatmill cream pies
  
• carrots
  
• mints
  
• human cereal is a small but inexpensive treat
  
• potato chips,ice cream,etc.
  
• carrots/apple treat
  
• carrots they are OTTB and I think that is why they like carrots so much.
  
• peppermint candies which I sometimes carry in my chore coat – they sniff and try to ferrot them out
  
• nicker makers
  
• Our horse loves bananas, oranges & melons in addition to the “normal” treats.
  
• bananas, raisins, avocados…..
  
• apples
  
• Kellogg’s Cracklin Oat Bran–but beware, it’s addictive
  
• either a handful of plain steamed oats or a handful of steam-dried alfalfa leaves!
  
• whipping cream
  
• sugar cubes
  
• apple bars
  
• They are treat pigs and will eat anything!
  
• alfalfa cubes with oats
  
• they LOVE watermelon
  
• Hard to pick a favorite. They like them all!
  
• alfalfa pellets occasionally
  
• bread
  
• Nickermakers, Dumor horse treats
  
• carrots
  
• pastry and granola bars
  
• Beet treats – flavored compressed beet pulp with sugar removed – they love them!
  
• sugar cubes
  
• mints
  
• whole grain bread
  
• carrots
  
• carrots
  
• Other=raisins. Favorite treat, peppermint
  
• some home baked treats
  
• crunchies
  
• Peppermints are the all time favorite!
  
• Carrots
  
• peppermint treats
  
• My horses love the pre-packaged iced oatmeal cookies
  
• oatmeal cookies, vanilla wafers
  
• carrots, but they are happy to recieve any of them
  
• granola bars-oats n honey seem 2b favs
  
• apples
  
• apples
  
• And Skittles they love the fruit flavor great for trainning over a spookie thing!
  
• carrots!!!!
  
• candy canes! we buy a huge box at Christmas just for them
  
• junk food, soda, chips, popcorn, beer
  
• anything with molasses!
  
• Carrots & Berry Treats
  
• carrots
  
• grain or pelleted feed
  
• Pears
  
• Pears from our pear trees.
  
• Carrots
  
• Any treat given is a fav! I also give oranges and no-molasses timothy/alfalfa pellets as treats.
  
• Our horses eat poptarts and anything that are willing to eat
  
• carrots – although sugar cubes are always a nice treat
  
• Mrs pastures cookies
  
• Apple Jacks cereal
  
• occasionally bread (just like Icelandic Horses get) or bits of my protein bars
  
• soaked alfalfa cubes, sugar,
  
• My horse loves peanutbutter & crackers, potato chips, twinkies, pears, apples, butterscotch treats,.
  
• Peppermints rule!
  
• 1/2 banana and also occasionally watermelon
  
• Apples and Carrots
  
• Horse need succulent fruits & veggies.
  
• oranges,sliced,rind too! & pears
  
• grain apples and carrots and mints
  
• grapes, raisins
  
• peppermint
  
• packaged apple treats
  
• sweet potatoes
  
• watermelon rinds, oranges,bananas,figs,dates
  
• Peppermints. They open their mouths and take the bridle themselves when one is offered.
  
• Carrots
  
• feed beet pulp and enrich 32 plus bermuda hay and pasture is enough
  
• Cattle feed cubes – all natural feed ingredients
  
• carrots
  
• alfalfa cubes
  
• apples, mints are favs.
  
• all
  
• Grated carrots for the one missing a lot of teeth
  
• rolled oats, corn, and pellets mixed together; sweet feed
  
• Carrots
  
• Actually loves hay cubes and molasses treats
  
• carrots!
  
• hay stretcher nuggetd
  
• peppermints
  
• Cucumbers, potato peelings
  
• carrots
  
• Some also love banannas and oranges
  
• I pet them between the eyes as reward
  
• horse treats
  
• oats or apple flavoured horse nuggets
  
• McVities Ginger Biscuits
  
• carrots
  
• I don’t think they have a favorite. They like them all.
  
• Salt & Vinegar Pringles
  
• Hay cubes
  
• rarely, whatever, in feedtubs only—-pony ride ‘ponies’ get ‘bad’ otherwise!!!No ‘nippers’ needed!
  
• My horses love all of the above choices but I like to think that carrots are healthier
  
• licorice and winnies cookies
  
• pears from my tree are their favorite
  
• Oranges;grapes;strawberries;bananas;peaches;Oatmeal/Rasin Power Bar-good for hiding meds;ricecakes.
  
• humans
  
• Nickermakers
  
• Bananas
  
• apple wafers
  
• Winnies and peppermint
  
• apple(peeled)
  
• a tiny handful of feed after a good ride
  
• carrots
  
• oatmeal cream pies
  
• stud muffins
  
• carrots
  
• hay cubes and pack horse cubes
  
• watermelon rinds
  
• my horses love a banana more than any other treat.
  
• my horses love little debbie oatmeal creme pies!!! its a fav.
  
• cosequan HA/ASU treats
  
• carrots
  
• fruits
  
• apples&carrots
  
• Carrots!
  
• I also use Purina Strategy Ovals as treats
  
• beet treats for IR horse
  
• apple treats
  
• sugar-free peppernints (gelding has cushings)
  
• carrots
  
• sugar free mints
  
• Apples are their favorite, although due to expense they don’t get that treat very often!
  
• ginger snaps
  
• alfalfa cubes
  
• apples
  
• fries
  
• They also love cereal such as corn pops, apple jacks, etc
  
• range cubes
  
• The crackle of a mint wrapper brings him to me from half way across the pasture!
  
• apples
  
• “packer pellets” alfalfa based complete feed pellets
  
• Carrots first, then apples.
  
• home made peanutbutter cookies – the Stallion loves them!!
  
• carrots
  
• They fight over carrots!
  
• apples
  
• peppermints
  
• carrots
  
• apples
  
• Apple wafers
  
• apples! Nothing like what nature gave us!
  
• a pat on the neck
  
• horse cookies
  
• carrots
  
• Apples cut up and peppermint horse treats.
  
• Nickermakers
  
• Minnie Cookies
  
• apples
  
• once in a while cut up apples in their beat pulp
  
• liquorice
  
• Mrs. Pastures cookies
  
• apples
  
• peanuts (in the shell)
  
• apples, carrots & horse biscuits
  
• homemade horse cookies
  
• They pretty much get a wide variety. Love raspberries, grapes & watermelon
  
• bananas
  
• bananas
  
• anything peppermint flavored
  
• don’t know
  
• molasses or oatmeal cookies
  
• apples
  
• Sugar Cubes, Frosted Oatmeal Cookies
  
• Oreos!
  
• Love
  
• apples
  
• besides the horse treats, apples and carrots my horses love bananas
  
• homemade treats
  
• corn husks
  
• My horse will eat pretty much anything 😉 She also likes bananas, citrus, and berries.
  
• My older horses love pumpkin. My younger horses are not used to treats. I’m getting wiser:-)
  
• Oranges, bananas and pretzels too
  
• carrots
  
• carrots
  
• Romaine lettuce and other vegetables
  
• Dates
  
• bananas-love the over-ripe ones
  
• Applesauce from a syringe & bananas!!!
  
• apples
  
• watermelon
  
• peanuts
  
• alfalfa cubes
  
• watermelon,slober all the way. Only in the bucket!!!
  
• Apples
  
• carrots
  
• apples
  
• homemade horse cookies
  
• pelleted feed
  
• Giddyap Cookies
  
• apples
  
• I rarely give treats. when I do it is in their buckets. Apples or carrots is what I give.
  
• bananas
  
• Carrots hands down
  
• bread, instant maple and brown sugar oatmeal, little debbie oatmeal cream treats
  
• My 4 horses love weetbix, dry as a treat which encourages them to drink, and wet on their feed.
  
• Apples
  
• sugar cubes. All SPARINGLY, reward for good performance
  
• alfalfa cubes, broken up into smaller sections, also make an economical treat
  
• orange skins
  
• apples
  
• apples
  
• peppermint horse treats. Tried licorice but she doesn’t like them
  
• I also use frosted mini wheat cerals
  
• ginger biscuits, veg peelings, bread
  
• grapes, pears, whatever fresh fruit or veg I am eating.
  
• oatmeal cookies, cantalopes, water melon, tortillas, corn ships. fresh lettuce
  
• Bananas
  
• My horses are stabled all winter so try to give them succulents every day
  
• Watermelon rinds
  
• No more sugar after the last dental clinic! Carrots and sometimes watermelon
  
• Watermellon, occassional PopTart, and Granola Bars
  
• Apples
  
• pears
  
• they are like.. pepperminty 😛 sometimes apples, rarely carrots
  
• apples
  
• sugar cubes
  
• BRI LOVES WATERMELLON!
  
• carrots
  
• we grow lucerne for the extra minerals etc
  
• Ginger Snap cookies for the Dollar Store!
  
• Pears
  
• Warm Alfalfa Pellet Soup on Cold Mornings
  
• Stud Muffins
  
• Horse cookies
  
• biscuits/packaged treats
  
• Watermelon
  
• Insulin res. horse – Granny Smith apples only – less sugar
  
• Red Apples
  
• My friend saves the carrot and apple pulp from juicing. I put it intheir beet pulp for flavoring
  
• both of he above
  
• any kind of packaged treats
  
• Dr. Pepper
  
• apples
  
• Peppermint treats with vitamins in them
  
• black licorice bites
  
• carrots during the cool months, pack horse pellets when it’s too warm for carrots to keep fresh.
  
• everything
  
• McDonald’s apple pies every now and then
  
• oats
  
• With two Cushing’s/IR horses, I only feed Skode’s Horse Treats–guaranteed low-sugar.
  
• One of my horses loves spirulina tablets! Also give other fruits-pineapples, pears, melons.
  
• Mrs pasture’s cookies
  
• apples are a big favorite
  
• horse krunch
  
• All of them
  
• Skodes brownies
  
• homemade treats with apple
  
• carrots
  
• Hemp cookies – contain no sugars
  
• their fave is anything they don’t get on a regular basis!
  
• Carrots
  
• Also hay or alfalfa pellets as a treat
  
• bananas
  
• Altoids
  
• He loves them all! I was giving him too many…first time horse owner. Now he earns his treats!
  
• Watermelon and bananas are their favorite
  
• pepermint snacks
  
• tahitian noni juice
  
• Skode’s low carb treats
  
• apples
  
• cold cucumbers!
  
• stud muffins and mints
  
• alfalfa and berry
  
• Lickits
  
• My horse is insulin resistant so he gets no sweets; only organic celery and romaine lettuce
  
• dried fruit, cookies, candy cane, berries, tomatoes, pop tarts, pies, chocolate, cereal, bread
  
• good veggies & fruits
  
• pepermint horse treats and fireballs. they go looking for them.
  
• Home made cookies
  
• apple treats
  
• insulin resistant horses LOVE their Skode’s cookies!
  
• Dry stale bread
  
• peppermint
  
• Apple Wafers by Calf Manna
  
• bananas
  
• apples
  
• pears from the neighbor’s pear tree
  
• Lick Its:mint, banana, etc.
  
• one horse loves dog biscuits
  
• mints
  
• carrots & apples
  
• apple waffers

carrots

• My horse loves apples more than life itself.
  
• Our mare eats anything. She loves pumpkins from the garden and corn on the cob too. She is part pig.
  
• treats inly make horses disrespectful
  
• carrots from my garden are their fav
  
• soaked and rinsed beet pulp
  
• cantaloupe, green grapes, homemade treats
  
• big fat marshmallows!
  
• Manna Pro Apple Treats (large size)
  
• Plain alfalfa cubes
  
• Equine Apple Smacks, peppermint treats, candy kanes, butterscotch treats
  
• watermelon
  
• keeps all of them coming when you call them up
  
• Yams, tangerines, oranges
  
• Cherry life savers and Peeps(R)
  
• carrots- hands down # one favorite!
  
• oranges
  
• oats
  
• sugar cubes
  
• apples
  
• anything he wants.
  
• peppermint swirls
  
• My horses love whole wheat bread!
  
• lemon drops
  
• sweet fresh apples from my tree!
  
• apples are a big fave, carrots a plus some like pears others do not small oranges also are loved s
  
• apple/oats cookies, carrotchips,molasses oatmeal cookies
  
• carrots
  
• home made barley molassos herbal tea cubes.
  
• apples
  
• manna pro apple wafers
  
• horse cookies-can bring them from the far pasture just shaking the jar 🙂
  
• Gala Apples
  
• Cowboy loves Golden Delicious Apples. If I give him another type of apple, he spits it out.
  
• frozen grapes
  
• Various fruits depenant on horse’s preference.
  
• pears, nectarines
  
• Apple and oat treats
  
• horse cookies
  
• apples, applesauce
  
• apples
  
• candy canes
  
• whatever is in their mouths
  
• Sugar cubes
  
• granola bars
  
• GRANNY SMITH APPLES
  
• granola bars
  
• Apples, have to be #1
  
• Bread buns and slices too
  
• Horse is Insulin Resistance-Diet for horses should not include sugar-apples carrots mints ,molasses
  
• the hands down favorite is mrs. Pastures Cookies they will do all sorts of tricks for them.
  
• my mare loves cheerios.my gelding likes hard treats
  
• peppermints
  
• all the above, moderatio is the key on the mints and biscuit/packaged treats
  
• Ice Cream believe it or not.
  
• I manly feed cubed suger
  
• cherry licorice
  
• sugar cubes
  
• all of the above!
  
• Mrs. Pasture’s Cookies
  
• carrots
  
• Stud Muffins
  
• apples
  
• horse cookies
  
• As far as he’s concerned, if we’re eating it, he’d like some, too, please 🙂
  
• carrots
  
• bananas and pears
  
• My paint and my mini LOVE dog discuits. Either plain and the variety flavors!
  
• alfalfa cubes
  
• Cookies!! Mine will do anythign for one of my homemade “horse cookies”!
  
• I don’t want my horses using their mouths with me and have had biters in the past.
  
• Jelly Beans!
  
• oranges,grapefruits all fruit we grow:) and a cheesecracker now and again lol
  
• manna pro apple treats
  
• if treats at all, they are pieces of ODTB cubes due to IR
  
• Carrots!
  
• Bananas
  
• bananas, donuts
  
• my horse LOVES pears!
  
• mints, use pieces of them for training
  
• carrots
  
• apples
  
• Mints!
  
• my three horses FAVORITE treat that they would rather have before anything else, is stale bread.
  
• home made.Louie’s fav are apples
  
• watermellon rind- cut small
  
• They also like watermelon and bananas
  
• pears apples carrots grapfruit any fruit
  
• “Wild Berry Delights” by Haystack Horse Treats
  
• mrs pastures
  
• he love them all
  
• apples
  
• apples
  
• hay cubes
  
• peppermint horsey bits…like stud muffins but better
  
• 10% Protien Oat-based grain
  
• Nature Valley granola bars
  
• Magic loves spice drops! He can smell them at 20 paces.
  
• Favorite: carrots
  
• bananas
  
• My horses get treats once in a while
  
• p-nut butter cheese crackers
  
• 1 apple 1 carrot cut up daily split / 2
  
• winnies cookies
  
• every once in a blue moon my horse Texas loves cheetos cheese puffs!
  
• I feed Triple Crown Lite feed as a treat to avoid giving my easy-keepers
  
• CARROTS
  
• Snicker Snacks – I make & market them. They know the bucket and will pass up most anything for them
  
• peppermints
  
• Ginger Snaps
  
• Home made cookies..
  
• I BAKE THEM TREATS WITH OATMEAL, CARROTS AND MOLASSES
  
• I also use alfalfa cubes broken into smaller pieces
  
• carrots
  
• balanced hay cubes only
  
• Prunes (no seeds), my MFT Curly is crazy for them
  
• our homemade low-carb cookies!
  
• some like bananas,oranges & melon
  
• apple and oats
  
• PEPPERMINT!
  
• nilla wafers
  
• all of them
  
• Peppermints!!!
  
• WINNIES COOKIES
  
• orange leaf candy
  
• Dry bread (great for medicines)
  
• Carrots given daily, broken up into pieces added to their grain and suppliments.
  
• Either Manna Pro’s Appleafers or fresh apples in season
  
• alfalfa cubes
  
• mints
  
• Two of 3 horses are IR, so all treats are sugar-free or homemade with flax meal
  
• mostly given by the neighborhood kids
  
• i feed treats only once in a while
  
• My horses like pears, not apples, green or ripe! The donk likes bananas!
  
• anything edible
  
• peanuts in the shell
  
• carrots
  
• any food offered
  
• pears
  
• My daughter’s horse really likes Lucky Charms Cereal
  
• alfalfa pellets
  
• Home baked horse cookies based on beet pulp, whole wheat flour and canola oil with some cinnamon
  
• all
  
• All types of treats. Our OTTB usually go for the carrots first then gradually try the others.
  
• apple flavored biscuits/cookies
  
• i either buy a 2pd bag on sale or make my own
  
• apple/molasses/honey
  
• They love ’em all!
  
• I also do, celery, pears, and other salad greens. My horses love them. Celery is their favorite!
  
• apples
  
• stale home made bread
  
• Banana Chips/Oranges/Watermelon/Pears
  
• Apple/oat treat
  
• generally just apples and carrots from the garden
  
• Extra Strong Mints
  
• Mints!
  
• Re prepared treats, I stick to low sugar high fat for my PSSM guy.
  
• all of the above
  
• Apples
  
• Apples! My gelding drools with delight when he eats them!
  
• Feed mostly in ‘grain’ bin, as they are lippy… not very often though. Apples mostly.
  
• carrots
  
• In their buckets with feedings, not by hand
  
• wheaties
  
• dogfood
  
• horse biscuits
  
• spearmint starlight mints
  
• Carrots
  
• bananas
  
• Apples
  
• a palm full of grain now and then, and 50/50 Alfalfa/Grass pellets mid day. NO sugar treats
  
• candy apple treats
  
• carrots
  
• Omega Nibblers
  
• fig newtons, golden oreos
  
• mints
  
• round flat peppermints that come individually wrapped
  
• apple
  
• they enoy the occassional molasses cookie.
  
• Mints and home-made horse cookies
  
• My babes love their daily carrots…apple/oat treats are good too
  
• bread
  
• pony pops
  
• Bananas & iced tea ( with lemon, of course)
  
• Various fruits & vegetables, especially peels, etc.
  
• mints
  
• stud muffins
  
• protein mineral chunks, oranges, watermelon, apples, mulberreis off the trees, wild blackberries
  
• Peppermints, but we give them homemade treats too
  
• I grow the pears, apples & carrots.
  
• alpha cubes
  
• carrots
  
• My old guy loves PopTarts, Frosted MiniWheats, PB&J, granola bars, cookies…
  
• apples
  
• baby carrots
  
• apples
  
• Mrs.Pastures
  
• Grapes, Peaches, Plums, Lots of petting.
  
• My geldings are too mouthy for treats… but they get inconsistent apples.
  
• carrots
  
• home made treats
  
• watermelon and strawberries
  
• donuts
  
• raisins/grapes
  
• Mine love peppermints, but I am careful I don’t give them too much, just on occasion.
  
• Peppermints, hands (or hooves) down.
  
• a little bit of sweet feed
  
• also watermelon, corn cobs, pears
  
• winnie cookies
  
• Horse cookies – my Morgans will do a spin that puts a quarter horse to shame when they hear bag open
  
• Apple Bitz
  
• Captain loves apples and the others will happily take any treat offered them.
  
• Low sugar/starch treats
  
• carrots. Some won’t eat apples at all.
  
• carrots
  
• ‘Horse Cookies’ which we make from bread, apple sauce and molasses. Yum!
  
• sugar cubes
  
• Give them in a bucket so they don’t get a biting habit
  
• carrots
  
• carrots
  
• carrots and sugar cubes
  
• carrots
  
• I use their regular grain as “treats” mostly
  
• carrots, and sugar cubes if I give them to them.
  
• celery
  
• apples
  
• apple
  
• my horse loves ginger snap cookies! It’s her absolute favorite.
  
• carrots
  
• They love’em. Great pos. reinforcer’s. Don’t over it tho.
  
• granola bars
  
• Apples and Mrs Pasture’s Cookies
  
• Never by hand, only in the feed tub. They will eat almost anything !
  
• carrots
  
• My donkey loves bread, and left over pancakes
  
• My clyde LOVES peppermint!
  
• candy canes
  
• bananas
  
• Apples/carrots cut up in feed
  
• apples
  
• All my horses are CRAZY for peppermints! And one loves bread!
  
• carrots
  
• apples
  
• winn treats
  
• carrots
  
• Any treat!!
  
• My mare likes Hot Tamales candies
  
• carrots
  
• I have a couple of old mares that “go ape” for bananas
  
• In feed only. no treats over stable door or in pasture.
  
• peppermint horse treats
  
• Doesn’t matter – they like them all.
  
• carrots
  
• Small bits of alfalfa cubes
  
• bread- we get out dated bread at a nearby bakery the horses love it more than sweet feed
  
• carrots
  
• bananas and their peels, oranges and anything else that comes from our hands!
  
• stud muffins
  
• Alfalfa cube pieces
  
• on a really hot day she likes a little ice cream
  
• home made horse biscuits
  
• above all else, appleasses
  
• winnies cookies
  
• bananas, pears, black licorice
  
• alfalfa cubes or pretzels
  
• homemade treats
  
• grain
  
• FlaxSnax
  
• mineral or senior feed pelletsHad to stop carrots/fruit after insulin resistance diagnosis
  
• Peppermints
  
• Spiced Wafer cookies
  
• watermelon, pears
  
• Peppermints
  
• apples
  
• Bananas!!! :oD
  
• Bananas are a favorite in our barn. No HYPP horses here! peppermints
  
• wild pears
  
• raisens
  
• Horse cookies!!!!!
  
• carrots
  
• one loves mints, one loves carrots and apples. I use them for nightly stretches after training
  
• peppermint candy
  
• fresh carrits
  
• Apples & carrots is normal, Guinnes in thier oats for birthdays, holidays & after competitions
  
• Carrots
  
• carrots
  
• carrots
  
• bananas, oranges, granola bars
  
• Skodes low NSC treats only (one C/IR, one IR)
  
• His favorite is apples but for clicker training, I just use hay stretcher pellets

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