You can't add ANYTHING to Jakes feed without him turning his nose up at it, which kinda surprises me since he is such a food fanatic. You shoulda seen mine after the Co-Op spread the lime in the pasture. Talk about snorting coke! I should have taken some pictures cause it was like that for several days since we did not get any rain.
Faith’s the only one of mine that will eat whatever you pour on her food. I will get another bag of that Amycin stuff if Trouble isn’t better soon. He really wants to go in with some horses.
I told you about the time I went up to pick up Bob from the trainer’s and he had put him in a stall that he’d just spread Quick Lime in to neutralize the ammonia and Bob promptly tried to eat some of it. Compaired to the regular dolomitic lime that they usually spread on pastures, quick lime is a fine powder and very caustic. They actually use it to sprinkle on decomposing carcases to kinda help “disolve” them. So needless to say, it was burning his mouth pretty bad. The trainer and I were just standing around talking and I noticed Bob had white powder all over his lips and was slobbering like crazy. That’s when we realized what he’d done so we got the hose and started washing his mouth out. He was fine, but it still turned his gums real red and I’ll bet it was pretty darned sore for a while. Troy said he’d been doing that to his stalls forever and had never had a horse try to eat any before. Leave it to BobTheBiter to be the first!