Healthy Home Made Horse Treats

Peppermint Apples

1 large apple

1 shredded carrot

1/2 cup oats

1/4 cup honey

5 tablespoons sugar

1 tablespoon salt

3 crushed peppermints

Cut the apples in large chunks and set aside. Mix the honey, peppermints, sugar, and salt in a bowl. Mix the oats and carrots in a separate shallow bowl. Next, coat the apple chunks in the honey mixture and roll in the oat mixture. Place on a plate or tupperware container and refrigerate until you feed to horses. Do not let recipe sit for more than two days. The recipe makes plenty for two horses. Enjoy!

Apple Explosion

1 cup oatmeal

1 cup whole wheat flour

1/2 tablespoon brown sugar

2 spoonfuls molasses

1/2 cup water

1/4 diced apple

Preheat oven to 350. Mix all ingredients in order listed excluding the apple. Grab some batter and stick a piece of the apple into the batter so it cannot be seen from the out-side. Do this to every cookie, and place them on a greased cookie sheet. Bake for 8-10 minutes.

Jack’s Snack

1 cup oatmeal

1 cup whole wheat flour

2 spoonfuls molasses

1/2 cup water

1/4 cup diced carrot

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Add ingredients in order listed. Place batter in round balls on a greased cookie sheet. Bake for 8-10 minutes.

Grain

Molasses

Dried apple flakes

Oats

Apple

Cut out all of the insides out of an apple like you are carving a pumpkin. Put in a layer of grain, molasses, and apple flakes. Add another drop of molasses. Add as many more layers as you can fit using anything you want, or use the same ingredients. Pellets, shredded carrots, bran, and alfalfa all work. Once you have made all of your layers, put the top of the apple back on like you would a carved pumpkin. If you add bran, make sure you add hot water to the bran first.

Sarge’s Surprise

Molasses

Carrots, sliced

Apples, one for as each horse you are going to feed

Oats

Raisins

Peppermints, crushed

Using a spoon, take the insides out of an apple. Mix what came out of the apple and all your ingredients together except the peppermints. Put the ingredients into the apple. Sprinkle the peppermint pieces on top.

Mike’s Nummy Apple Cinnamon Muffins

1-1/2 cups apples, cut small

1-1/2 cups carrots, finely chopped or shredded

3/4 cup oatmeal, Quick Oats works great

1/4 cup apple juice

4 teaspoons molasses

1/2 cup flour

1 teaspoon brown sugar

Some cinnamon sugar

Cut apples and cut or shred carrots. Use a few larger chunks of apple. Add them in a mixing bowl with oatmeal. Add apple juice, flour, brown sugar, and molasses. DO NOT put cinnamon sugar in yet! Mix together. If runny add more oats. If it isn't sticky, add more molasses. Put mix into a lightly greased muffin pan and bake at 350 degrees for about 8 to 10 minutes. Take out one muffin at 8 minutes and see if it is cooked. Enjoy!

Luvies

5 strawberries

1 cup Golden Grahms

2 1/2 cups Honey Nut Cheerios

2 1/2 cups flour

1 cup applesauce

1/2 cup crushed peppermints

4 baby carrots

2 cut apples

1/2 cup cinnamon

1/4 cup peanut butter

raisins

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Pour all ingredients into a big bowl, and mix well. Shape into balls and place on a cookie sheet. Cook for 15 to 19 minutes. Carrot Horse Cookies

2 cups feed (sweet or pellets)

2 cups rolled oats

2 cups shredded carrots or apples

1 1/2 (one and one half) cups raisin bran cereal

1 cup molasses

1/4 (one quarter) cup brown sugar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease cookie sheets. Combine all ingredients and drop small spoonfuls on sheet. If mixture isn't clumping, add water and try again. Cookies don't rise, so place as many on a sheet as possible. Bake 1 hour, turn off oven and let cookies sit for another hour before removing from sheet.

Sweet Tooth Treat

Quaker Oats

Sugar

Salt

Carrots

Molasses

Water if necessary but not too much

Heat oven to around 350 degrees. Mix everything together in a bowl. Have cupcake trays greased. Once all ingredients are mixed, scoop evenly into cupcake trays. Cook for about 10 to 15 minutes. They usually break up and look like sweet feed. Try to pack them down in the pan. Your horse will enjoy them!

1 apple

2 carrots

6 strawberries

1 cup oatmeal

1/2 (one half) cup molasses

1/3 (one third) cup feed (optional)

Take the apple, carrots, and strawberries and dice them. Put in a large bowl and add molasses. Mix well. Then stir in oatmeal and feed. Put in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Next feed to your horse. Horses go crazy over them.

Summer Carrot Candies

3 large carrots

1/2 (one half) small red apple

2 tablespoons brown sugar

3 tablespoons unbleached flour

5 crackers, the dry, crunchy kind

3 tablespoons molasses

1/2 (one half) cup Quaker oats

raisins (optional)

Peel the carrots and cut them into chunks. Size really doesn't matter at this point. Cut the apple as well. You can include the core but try to remove all the seeds. Put the apple and carrot pieces into the blender and blend for a few seconds or until finely chopped. Add the crackers and the Quaker oats and blend again until all the pieces are about the same size. Pour the molasses in and add the flour and brown sugar. Blend again until fairly smooth. There can be a few chunks of carrot but try to get it as smooth as possible. If the mixture appears to be too dry, you may add a very small amount of fruit juice. Now grease a mini muffin tin using vegetable oil (as horses are vegetarians) and flour the pan. Fill the tin with the mixture and if you like top each "candy" with a raisin. Sprinkle lightly with flour and cover with plastic wrap and put in the freezer for 3-4 hours. Serve cold.

Rice Krispie Bars

1 cup Rice Krispies

1/4 cup molasses

1/4 cup vegetable oil

1 shredded apple

2 teaspoons sugar

1/2 cup flour

1/4 cup water

Mix everything together in a bowl. Make a rectangle with some tin foil about the shape of granola bars. Pour mixture into the bars then set on a cookie sheet. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Cook for 15 minutes or until they turn hard. Take out of tin foil and place in the refrigerator overnight or for 30 minutes before serving.

I found this great collection of home made horse treats on the net, without any apparent copyright to it, and decided to make some for Lady Belle - she never stops eating now that she is in foal. Beau had some as well, and as he is not pregnant, he just got fat.

I'm afraid I can not guarantee the safety of the recipes, if in doubt, check with your vet. Suffice to say both Belle and Beau wolfed them down without any obvious side-effects.

If any of these recipes are copyrighted, please let me know and I'll remove them immediately.

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