I am moving my horse from a pasture in Texas to an equestrian center in California in May. The facility only feeds alfalfa cubes. I bought a bag and have attempted to encourage my horse to eat them as snacks, but he refuses. I have tried breaking them into flakes, and mixing it with his grain- neither worked. Any suggestions?
2007-03-26 12:58:44 · 7 answers · asked by Heather 1 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
He is on pasture so I cannot deprive him of flakes of hay unfortunately and he definitely isn't buying the cube as a treat idea.
2007-03-26 14:57:53 · update #1
You may want to try soaking them before feeding or pouring oil on them to make them seem more tasty. However, your horse may not take to them at all and you may be better off either weaning him off alfalfa all together or seeing if the stable in California would allow you to ship in Alfalfa bales.
It must be the exact opposite here in Texas as in California. I had a horse from Cali. board at my stable and the owner wanted cubes too, around my town and surrounding city's they don't sell alfalfa cubes. They too had to bring cubes with them.
2007-03-26 16:38:42 · answer #1 · answered by silvaspurranch 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some horses just don't like it. It sounds weird I know, but one of my horses would 10x rather have a sugar cube or horse treat than an alfalfa cube.
2007-03-26 20:47:50 · answer #2 · answered by CruelChick 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ummm.... try feeding him one alfalfa cube at a time, like a treat. Then start feeding more alfalfa cubes and less hay flakes. At some point he will eat them, and eventually you will have to take out the hay flakes all together, when he gets hungry he will eat them. He will get curious and eat them.
Hope this helps!
2007-03-26 20:20:10 · answer #3 · answered by wildhorseluvr101 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Try cutting back on the amount of flakes you feed and substitute cubes. In time he will get used to them. I did the same thing with my mare and she eats them fine now.
2007-03-26 20:08:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
it may help if you wet the cubes down let them soak for an hour
2007-03-26 20:08:31 · answer #5 · answered by kenexie j 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
try to introduse some oats/small amount of sugar cubes with it intise them to eat it and they will
2007-03-26 20:23:32 · answer #6 · answered by john M 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
try drizzling with a small amount of molasis (sp)
2007-03-26 22:02:55 · answer #7 · answered by spottedmyappy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋