tallyho8
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- Kubota L4400, Kubota ZD326
Maybe my horses are different from others, but mine would never eat a golf ball or most other foreign objects. My neighbor has a .223 with a golf ball launcher and I usually pick up about a bucket full of golf balls out of my pasture every spring after I mow and my horses have never bothered with them.
Horses are very picky about what they eat and can eat around things a dog would swallow whole if it was in his feed dish. For example, a few years ago I was changing the water bucket holders in my horse stalls and I removed the 4 screws out of each of the old ones and temporarily placed them in the horses feed buckets while working. I put new screws in the new bucket holders and forgot about the old screws and that evening dumped their feed into their feed buckets. The next day I noticed the screws in one of the buckets and remembered what I had done. Frantically, I searched each one of the feed buckets and every one had the 4 screws in it that I had placed there. None were missing.
The horse in my avatar has a feed dish on the ground because he always tears off one that is mounted on the wall. During the day when he is on pasture, chickens will go in his stall and scratch shavings into his feed dish. Many days I am too lazy to dump out his feed dish in the evening before I put his feed in it and the next morning the shavings are still in there and all the feed is gone. It is hard to imagine how he can pick all his feed out of the shavings without even picking the shavings up.
And if you have moldy hay, you can throw it out in a good pasture and the horses won't touch it because they have better grass to eat but if you throw it in a horse stall, the horses will eat it and colic because there is nothing else for them to eat.
And before you accept one, remember these words of wisdom: There is no such thing as a free horse.
Horses are very picky about what they eat and can eat around things a dog would swallow whole if it was in his feed dish. For example, a few years ago I was changing the water bucket holders in my horse stalls and I removed the 4 screws out of each of the old ones and temporarily placed them in the horses feed buckets while working. I put new screws in the new bucket holders and forgot about the old screws and that evening dumped their feed into their feed buckets. The next day I noticed the screws in one of the buckets and remembered what I had done. Frantically, I searched each one of the feed buckets and every one had the 4 screws in it that I had placed there. None were missing.
The horse in my avatar has a feed dish on the ground because he always tears off one that is mounted on the wall. During the day when he is on pasture, chickens will go in his stall and scratch shavings into his feed dish. Many days I am too lazy to dump out his feed dish in the evening before I put his feed in it and the next morning the shavings are still in there and all the feed is gone. It is hard to imagine how he can pick all his feed out of the shavings without even picking the shavings up.
And if you have moldy hay, you can throw it out in a good pasture and the horses won't touch it because they have better grass to eat but if you throw it in a horse stall, the horses will eat it and colic because there is nothing else for them to eat.
And before you accept one, remember these words of wisdom: There is no such thing as a free horse.
