My friend says horses eat mice, but horses are veggitarians! This can't be true..?
2006-12-27 09:39:48 · 33 answers · asked by The Girl 2 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
I can answer your question, I have five horses and I'm training to be a vet. Horses do not eat mice. They aren't veggitarians, actually they are herbavores. They are actually VERY frightened of them. (I read some of the answers and by the way mice don't live in hay) Mice tend to dig out dirt under a rock or take dried grass and make a nest, almost like a bird.
So..... NO they do not eat mice. They do not eat mice by accident, and they don't bit them and chew them up because they don't like them.
They are very skitish and would probably spook around a horse.
They would eat one by accident in the hay, because they use they lips to rip they hay away from the big pile and the feel it then put it in there mouth.
They horse wouldn't bite them and chew them up becuase they would have been spooked or they would have just ignored them.
hope I helped :)
2006-12-27 09:55:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have never heard of a case where horses eat mice. Maybe one particular horse did but meat is definitely not part of a horse's diet!
2006-12-27 10:03:01 · answer #2 · answered by ali_cat123 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I own horses, and no they will not eat mice. Horses are very particular eaters and for a good reason. They are unable to throw up food. Many horses die because of bad feed.
2006-12-27 09:46:16 · answer #3 · answered by Nelly 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No but mice eat horses.
2006-12-27 09:41:50 · answer #4 · answered by motorcitysmadman2 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
horses do not eat mice. You might find mice in your horse feed, but they don't eat them. They are herbivores and do not eat meat, which is what a mouse is. Tell your friend she's confused.
2006-12-27 10:34:55 · answer #5 · answered by toomeymimi 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
your friend is lieing horses are not only vegetarian but they can also eat mints
please only cats eat mice not horses
please i have more than 20 horses and none of them have aten a mice
2006-12-27 10:30:01 · answer #6 · answered by foxy33698562 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I know that they CAN eat mice if they wanted to, but I don't believe that horses do that on a regular basis.
2006-12-27 09:41:28 · answer #7 · answered by hirofuri 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hello =)
Well....they don't intentionally eat them, that's for sure..
Horses dislike mice, and will bite them to death, but I don't think they "swallow".....LOL
I've seen horses chasing mice around their stables, and if they catch them, they do kill them.
Of course, a horse will kick or bite many dogs to death as well, given the opportunity...
So, while they are vegetarians, they do possess the capacity to kill.
Namaste, and Happy New Year,
--Tom
2006-12-27 09:43:05 · answer #8 · answered by glassnegman 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No Horses do not eat mice. They are herbivores.
2006-12-27 09:41:58 · answer #9 · answered by azad 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why would they even want to?? I have found dead mice in bales of hay and I have never known a horse to eat one dead or alive---
2006-12-27 10:28:44 · answer #10 · answered by skizzle-d-wizzle 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋