Horse treats

[Ranch Girl]

What is your recipe for horse treats? This is mine:


Mis together:
3 cups oatmeal
4 cups of flour
4 Tbs. Brown sugar

Mix in:
1 egg
4 Tbs. vegetable oil
3/4 cup applesauce
1/2 cups molasses

Add:
1 cup hot water

Preheat oven to 300". On a lightly floured surface. roll out dough to approximately 1/2" thickness. Cut out shapes using your favorite cookie cutter. Place cut cookies on a greased baking sheet and bake for one hour. Then turn off the oven and leave the door shut until they are cool. When finished, horse treats should be hard and crunchy.
Yield: 24 to 36 cookies.
Enjoy!

 

[lupinfarm]

Oh geez, that sounds so complicated lol.. we used to just get some sweetfeed and some molasses, mix, put on a baking sheet, and bake.

I'm too lazy to make horse treats now, I just buy the 50lb bags of carrots LOL

 

[MrsCountryChick]

Ranch Girl that sounds like a good recipe. I'll have to try it when I get the chance. I made a recipe with peanut butter/oatmeal for dog cookies (criss crossed them with a fork for decoration) & the looked like wonderful people food, lol. Technically they were, but with healthy for dog ingredients. Much healthier than store pet food. Nearly any pet food (cat or dog) has ground yellow corn as the main ingredient, sad how they make crap for feed for our animals. Good for you for caring to make a healthy treat! & they'll keep better in a metal tin in the barn better than fresh carrots or apples too.

 

[ducks4you]

I guess I've always preferred carrots as treats, AND to keep treats to a minimum specific purpose, so your horses doesn't get nippy.

 

[Ranch Girl]

I need to find another recipe and I'll post it!

 

[Ranch Girl]

Apple and Carrot Cookies (Horse Treats)

1 c. sweet feed
2 c. bran
1 c. flax seed
4 large carrots
1 c. molasses
1/2 c. brown sugar
1 c. applesauce

Mix molasses, brown sugar, carrots and applesauce in one bowl.
In another bowl mix the dry ingredients.
Slowly combine the molasses mixture with the dry ingredients.
Add only enough molasses mixture to form a thick dough, add more bran if necessary.
Line cookie sheet with foil.
Drop batter onto foil with a tablespoon and flatten slightly to form portions about the size of a silver dollar.
Bake at 350 degrees for one (1) hour.
flip and bake an additional 45 minutes until they are dried out.
Keep checking to make sure they do not burn.




Apple Cookies (Horse Treats)

1 c. margarine
1 c. flour
1 c. brown sugar
1 c. bran
1 c. diced carrots
1 c. apples
1 tsp baking soda
2 c. quick cooking dry oatmeal
2 eggs

Cream margarine and sugar until light and fluffy.
Beat in eggs.
Combine flour, bran and baking soda.
Blend into a creamed mixture.
Stir in oats, carrots and apples.
Drop by spoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheets.
Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes until lightly brown.




" I Didn't Buck Today!" Treats (Horse Treats)

2 sticks butter
1/4 c. brown sugar
2 eggs
1 c raisins
2 c. dry oatmeal
1 c. alfalfa cubes (crushed)

Mix butter with sugar and eggs until smooth.
Add dry ingredients slowly.
Drop by spoonfuls onto cookie sheet.
Bake for about 8 minutes at 350 degrees


Carrot Cookies (Horse Treats)

1 c. oatmeal
1 c. flour
1 c. shredded carrots
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
2 tsp vegetable oil
1/4 c. molasses

Mix ingredients in bowl as listed.
Make little balls and place on greased cookie sheet.
Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes or until golden brown.



Cob Cookies (Horse Treats)

8 c. dry cob feed (corn, oats, barley mix)
3 c. shredded carrots
1/4 c. corn oil
2 c. flour
2 c. molasses

Mix all ingredients well. Let stand for at least an hour (so the grain can absorb some of the moisture), stir the mixture
well.
Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto a well greased cookie sheet.
Using your finger and the teaspoon "smoosh" the cookie into a round slightly flattened shape.
Bake at 350 degrees for 12-18 minutes.
Put on racks to cool.
Makes 6-9 dozen.




Easy No Cook Bran Snaps (Horse Treats)

4 c. bran
4 c. applesauce

Mix ingreedients together.
Batter should be doughy.
Roll out with rolling pin, cut shapes with cookie cutter.
Let dough dry and serve



Whinny Bars (Horse Treats)

2 c. dry oatmeal
1/4 c. grain
3 c. bran
1 c. molasses

Mix oats, grain and bran together in bucket.
Drizzle in molasses while mixing with your hands (consistence should be a little thinner than ply dough).
Place dollops (about half a handful) on a cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.
They never get completely hard, but they store nicely.



Sunday Cookies

1 cup uncooked oatmeal

1 cup flour

1 cup shredded carrots

1 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon sugar

2 tablespoons corn oil

cup water (one quarter cup)

cup molasses (one quarter cup)

..

Mix ingredients in a bowl in the order listed. Make small balls and place on cookie sheet sprayed. Bake 350 degrees for 15 minutes or until golden brown. Horses love 'em!




Carrot Apple Delight

3 Carrots chopped into small pieces

3 apples cut into small pieces

Cup of oatmeal

.

Drench cut up carrots and apples in molasses

Roll molasses cover carrots and apples into oats shake

Put in refrigerator, and serve to horse after working him, horse must be cooled off completely first.


Judge's Apple Muffins

1 c flour

1 c wheat germ

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/2 c white sugar

1/2 tsp salt

3 tsp Baking powder

1 egg

2/3 cup milk

c corn oil

1 cup apples, chopped

.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Grease muffin tins and set aside.

In large bowl, mix dry ingredients together and set aside.

In separate bowl, mix remaining ingredients thoroughly, including apples

Pour liquid ingredients into the dry ingredients. mix until everything is well moistened.

Scoop into muffin tins and bake 15-20 min.

Serve cool to horses and warm to people!!.


Special Bran Mash
Ingredients
1 pound Bran mash
Boiling Water
Molasses
Sliced Carrots
Apples
Oats
Method
Place approximately one pound of dry bran in a large bucket. Pour boiling water over the bran and stir to moisten. (A metal sweat scraper does an excellent job of this.) You can make the mash "crumbly" or quite sloppy, depending on Argo's taste. Cover the bucket with a large towel, burlap feed sack, or some leg quilts, and let the bran steam for at least fifteen minutes, until its temperature is comfortable to your fingers. Add molasses, sliced carrots and apples, oats, or Sweetfeed to taste (if you wish to soften the grains, you can mix them into the bran before adding the water). If adding, special herbs, mix them in just before serving, as any cooking might change their composition and effectiveness. Serve warm



Argo's Day Treats
Ingredients:
1 packet of Quaker oatmeal (dry)
1 handful of Sweet Feed
2 spoonfuls Applesauce
1 spoonful Honey or Molasses
1 handful Cherrios
4 Sugar cubes
a pinch of Brown Sugar
cup Water
Method
You can mix this right in your horses feed bucket. Mix the oatmeal with the water. Add sweet feed and applesauce. Stir together. Add the Cheerios, brown sugar, and honey or molasses. Mix again and place sugar cubes on top. This serves one horse.


Lizzie's Rivendale Peppermint Treats

2 cups of flour
1 cup of oats
1/4 cup of molasses
10 crushed peppermints
2 apples

Mix flour and oats together. Add molasses if the mixture is not doughy. Add water slowly until it is doughy. Add peppermints and apples. Cook until golden brown at 350 degrees.


Fruit Surprise

2 cups horse feed
1 banana - chopped
1 apple - diced
6 strawberries - sliced
4 baby carrots - sliced
1 cup molasses
4 peppermints - crushed


Mix all ingredients together and serve. Your horse will love you for it.

Pumpkin Surprise

Take a small pumpkin, cut off top and remove all insides. Be sure and get all the seeds. Fill it with grain, carrots, apples, peppermints, strawberries or whatever fruit you have on hand. Replace top and serve to your horse.




Honey Cookies

cup dry oatmeal
1 cup sweet feed
2 Tlbs. Apple sauce
1 Tlbs. Honey (or molasses)
1 cup cheerios
4 sugar cubes
Pinch of brown sugar
cup water


Mix oatmeal with water. Add sweet feed and apple sauce. Mix well. Stir in remaining ingredients. Shape and serve.

Horsie Cake

Plain Rice Cakes
Molasses
Any topping your heart desires.


Spread molasses on one side of rice cake. Top with things like grated carrots, grated apples, sweet feed, crushed peppermints, watermelon, or whatever your horse loves.




Horsies Kisses

Cup molasses
1 cup horse feed
1 cup oats or dry oatmeal
cup peanut butter
Tin foil


Mix all ingredients. Roll into balls. Wrap in tin foil and shape like a Hersheys kiss. Place in freezer overnight.









Things horses love:

Ginger snaps
Grapes
Watermelon
Carrots
Bananas
Strawberries
Frosted cheerios
Apples
Peppermints
Sugar cubes
**Do Not Feed Horses Peanuts**


Hope you will bake your horses some of these treats!!!



Enjoy!

 

[lupinfarm]

My horses get treats all the time, often fed by hand, and neither of them are nippy. No horse I've ever owned has been nippy as a result of having treats or having them fed by hand. It's purely a training problem IMO, this year is the first time I've ever heard of horses being nippy because they get fed treats or get fed treats by hand. Seriously. In all the years I've owned and ridden horses, this is the first I've heard of this.

One of my favourite things to do as a child was give my gelding a couple pieces of carrot by hand a day or every other day.

Jus' Sayin'

My horsies love baking apples, obviously carrots, and I sometimes get small training type treats, they're like the size of a large dog kibble that I use in some training. My horses *hate* with a passion those apple chunk treats, the ones by Purina... lol Luna hates them so much, she just looks at them like "Are you nuts?"

 

[Ranch Girl]

Breck our colt is going to be 2 this April, and he LOVES pop-sickles, chips, cookies etc. He is the sweetest lil' horse!!!

 

[lupinfarm]

I had a friend whose horse loved Fruit Explosion Muffins from Timmies. You had to be very aware of what you were doing because you'd turn around and the muffin would be gone off the table, or he'd be standing there with half a bag hanging out of his mouth LOL.

 

[Ranch Girl]

Haha, that's funny. We even put put a top-hat on him!!! He is SO FRIENDLY!!! He likes cake, too. One time he tryed to come in the house and get food! LOL And once we had all our mommy goats and their babies the the backyard because there was so much grass back there, and we left the door open and one of the mommy goats named Sweety Pie came in the house and ate a bannana!!!! Then after that she would try'n sneak in the house when ever we went outside! LOL