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Making Your Own Horse Treat Recipes At Home
Posted by Erik Loebl at Jul 30th, 2010 in Horses
Pull out the biggest cookie jars you have and start filling them with treats for your horse. You can make some great horse treat recipes right in your own kitchen that will have your horse nudging you for more. You can make up a few different treats to have flavor variety each feeding time.
In most homemade treat recipes for horses, you will find oats as a main ingredient. One reason for this is they are highly digestible and very nutritious for horses. They also love to eat them which would be good for the treats you make. Check online for as many treat recipes for horses you can imagine.
Horse owners know how gentle and loving horses can be. They also know how a horse is just like any other pet when it comes to love and care. Spoiling horses will be the best way to provide the love and loyalty he or she gives you. Spoiling them through their tummy is also the tastiest and best way. If you bring along these homemade treats with you every time you walk into the barn, you will see a difference in your horse.
One of the most popular homemade treats you could make for is a simple cookie recipe. You will need to mix up one cup of oatmeal, one cup of bran, a tablespoon of salt, two tablespoons of brown sugar, and one half cup of molasses. Mix into these ingredients a cup of water. Stir together well and place balls of the mixture onto a cookie sheet. Bake for around eight to ten minutes. These will certainly steal any horses heart away.
Most horse owners feed their horses sweet feed every day. This feed has a number of nutritious and tasty ingredients in it. You can use this feed in many of the homemade treats you can make as well. Most treats you will stir up for horses will be sweet. Mix up a cup sweet feed with about one quarter cup of dry oatmeal. Stir in a little dab of applesauce with three or four sugar cubes. Stir well and add a table spoon each of brown sugar and molasses. This treat does have to be baked. Roll the mixture into balls small enough for your horse to easily eat.
Cool treats in the summer months are great for your horse. Add a banana and some ice cubes together in a blender. Mix until smooth. Add in some apple chunks and pour into container that will allow easy drinking for your horse. You could also add the banana ice mixture to the middle of a cored apple for a wonderful cool treat on hot days.
For the best in treats all the time, you will need to make sure you keep the ingredients you will use the most for making them on hand all the time. Brown sugars, oatmeal, molasses, and applesauce are some of these ingredients. You can easily keep a fresh stock in the pantry for a little amount of money.
Keep in mind that cold weather is great time to give horses additional treats. The better food they get, the easier it will be for them to generate the fuel needed to stay warmer. Stay on top of your horses diet during the colder months with adding homemade horse treat recipes.
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