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| Feeding Eggs to Horses [message #1990802] |
Mon, 30 August 2010 18:26  |
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Hello All
I read the other day that you can feed eggs (chook or duck) to horses.
I asked my vet today and he said it was perfectly ok. A good source of protein.
So my question is do any of you feed eggs to your horses, and if so how many and how regularly? And is it for a specific purpose?
My horse is a 14.2 quarterhorse in regular work. So I wanted to know what would be suitable for him.
Thanks
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| Re: Feeding Eggs to Horses [message #1991427 is a reply to message #1990802 ] |
Tue, 31 August 2010 10:46  |
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Years ago!!!! when I was a strapper we would put eggs and guiness in the feed,didn't know what the guiness would do but I sometimes took a swig, not real good warm. 
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| Re: Feeding Eggs to Horses [message #1991741 is a reply to message #1990802 ] |
Tue, 31 August 2010 14:53 |
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When we bought our first property, it had a winter creek going through it, Horses had good grazing plus hard feed, happy, healthy, albeit a bit fat. Dusk went out to big paddock to bring horses in, was running a bit late, got my big girl, Alpha mare, lead her in the rest follow, I'm just walking her in daydreaming and her head shot down to the ground, I heard a screech and to my horror, saw she was munching on a FROG!!!
I just about lost my lunch. Next day had vet out, convinced they had some dreadful deficiancy, full blood picture ran on each one, cost me a fortune, results back 3 weeks later. Nothing all fine. I saw this behavior a few more times in the five years we were there. Meggie, also swiped a piece of KFC clean out of my sons hand, and looked for more after devouring it! seen horses at shows, nick and scoff, hot dog and meat pie, fairy floss, I get that one,  and I've seen a horse stomp on the shell of a long necked turtle, whether he intended to eat it or not I'll never know, he didn't get the chance.
My treasures do not chink or glitter, They gleam in the sun and neigh softly into the night.
Old Bedoin Saying.
The world always looks better when you look at it framed by your horse's ears.
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| Re: Feeding Eggs to Horses [message #1992736 is a reply to message #1990802 ] |
Wed, 01 September 2010 12:29 |
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Good job the egg in my bacon and egg sandwich was cooked when Tarkin swiped it out of my hand. I can rest easy now
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| Re: Feeding Eggs to Horses [message #1992928 is a reply to message #1992763 ] |
Wed, 01 September 2010 14:32 |
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| bayview wrote on Wed, 01 September 2010 12:49 |
can someone elaborate for me tho....
"Salmonella lives in the digestive tract of mammals, irrespective of what country they are in"
If the salmonella is already in the digestive tract of a mammal (horse/human) how does feeding egg change this???
Unless Arnold is refering to chooks, but chooks arent mammals...???????????
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Bad bacteria, like salmonella, live in our gut but the good bacteria kills it if we are healthy enough, or at least keeps it under control. If you become weak/sick/not eating good food etc the bad bacteria can take over (think of the adds for yakult or other probiotics to restore the 'good bacteria' after bad diet, heavy drinking, using antibiotics, ilness and so on) When animals pass manure, they often pass out the bad bacteria (such as salmonella) onto the ground as well, so sometimes if a horse say grazes on pasture that ducks have $hit on and spread salmonella bacteria everywhere the horses get it because the bacteria takes over and kills their good bacteria. But a normal healthy horse would need large doses of salmonella to get sick from it, because its good bacteria would fight it, a sick horse or say one on antibiotis or that has been off its feed etc would only need a vert small dose to get sick, because its own good bacteria would already be depleted and its own bad bacteria would already be starting to take over, so add a bit extra and bang you get a full blown illness.
Eggs contain salmonella via the ovaries of the chicken, and just like any other animal some will not have it because they are healthy enough that their good bacteria keep it under control/kill it, but others will be carrying it and will pass it on in their eggs. So just like the horse eating grass $hit on by infected birds/animals, if its given an egg from an infected chicken if the horse is very healthy it would need lots of infected eggs to get sick, but if its weak/off feed/sick/on antibiotics etc then a single egg could be enough to make it sick.
Does that make sense? 
Live your life in such a way that when your feet hit the floor in the morning, Satan shudders & says...
'Oh ****...she's awake!!'
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| Re: Feeding Eggs to Horses [message #1993065 is a reply to message #1992980 ] |
Wed, 01 September 2010 16:15 |
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Im still trying to work out if this is a joke topic or for real.
[Updated on: Wed, 01 September 2010 16:16]
IF YOU WANT SOMETHING DONE, DO IT YOURSELF.
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| Re: Feeding Eggs to Horses [message #1993619 is a reply to message #1993049 ] |
Wed, 01 September 2010 22:56 |
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| artepko wrote on Wed, 01 September 2010 16:04 |
Why the hell would you feed eggs to a horse?? Come on, how ridiculous. Feeding coconut and seaweed is bad enough, but FFS, eggs?
Thats just weird and wrong on so many levels. 
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Eggs have been fed for centuries and again - horses in the wild do know how and when to get to eggs !! Extra source of protein for the breeding season 
Eggs are an excellent muscle builder and conditioner for horses and therefore a valuable addition to the diet !
Yes, there is the use of coconut, seaweed, green lipped mussel, chia, raw garlic and other weird herbs and spices ..... oh and FFS  ( Full Fat Soy )
What ever works  so No it's not a joke or old wives tale !
Cheers MARTINA
[Updated on: Wed, 01 September 2010 22:57]
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| Re: Feeding Eggs to Horses [message #1993665 is a reply to message #1993619 ] |
Wed, 01 September 2010 23:39 |
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| martina wrote on Wed, 01 September 2010 22:56 |
| artepko wrote on Wed, 01 September 2010 16:04 |
Why the hell would you feed eggs to a horse?? Come on, how ridiculous. Feeding coconut and seaweed is bad enough, but FFS, eggs?
Thats just weird and wrong on so many levels.
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Eggs have been fed for centuries and again - horses in the wild do know how and when to get to eggs !! Extra source of protein for the breeding season
Eggs are an excellent muscle builder and conditioner for horses and therefore a valuable addition to the diet !
Yes, there is the use of coconut, seaweed, green lipped mussel, chia, raw garlic and other weird herbs and spices ..... oh and FFS ( Full Fat Soy )
What ever works so No it's not a joke or old wives tale !
Cheers MARTINA
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This. I stuffed it up, Do you just change text colour to respond or add to a quote?
[Updated on: Wed, 01 September 2010 23:46]
My treasures do not chink or glitter, They gleam in the sun and neigh softly into the night.
Old Bedoin Saying.
The world always looks better when you look at it framed by your horse's ears.
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| Re: Feeding Eggs to Horses [message #1993894 is a reply to message #1993822 ] |
Thu, 02 September 2010 09:36 |
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| Carola Adolf wrote on Thu, 02 September 2010 08:41 |
.... yes - the mind boggles.
Eggs seem to be such a natural horse food. It originates way back somewhere in evolution when horses were flying from tree to tree, pinching eggs out of nests - much to the horror of unsuspecting birdies...who thought Equus soandso and co were actually herbivores...... But well.... even in Germany they are a bit "strange"...
Cheers,
C.
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Studies on wild horses where made in Germany, France, South America and some Nordic country !
There were seen to rub and rattle on trees to get the nests out. Find water bird nests along the rivers/streams and so on. The interesting part was ( I thought ) that they knew exactely when to look for them etc.
Yep, must be the source of extra protein ..... as stallions in particular were seen to rip bark off certain tree to eat some type of grub  So much for the herivores then !
Oh, they discovered that horses were self-medicating to. When they had diarrhea problems, they would find a burned tree and eat the charcoal !!! Well, everybody knows they eat some form of dirt or lick on rocks for the salt and minerals.
All I am trying to say is - its' not like something weird to feed at all !!
Surely coconut, shark cartilage, green lipped mussel, seaweeds and the likes is way more unusual !?
If it works and is available and does not harm the horse -
Why not !!?? Cheers MARTINA
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| Re: Feeding Eggs to Horses [message #1993969 is a reply to message #1993822 ] |
Thu, 02 September 2010 10:44 |
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| Carola Adolf wrote on Thu, 02 September 2010 08:41 |
.... yes - the mind boggles.
Eggs seem to be such a natural horse food. It originates way back somewhere in evolution when horses were flying from tree to tree, pinching eggs out of nests - much to the horror of unsuspecting birdies...who thought Equus soandso and co were actually herbivores...... But well.... even in Germany they are a bit "strange"...
Cheers,
C.
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Carola Have you not heard of birds nesting on the ground? Ducks, swans, puffins, terns, mutton birds, oooh chooks, just a few that come to mind. I'm with Martina on this one. Personally, I do not feed eggs, Nor am I conviced that horses are total herbivores, particularly after witnessing the frog eating, can you declare, without a shadow of doubt that your horses have never indulged on a dark rainy night? Frogs, eggs who knows what else?
Cheers Ash. 
My treasures do not chink or glitter, They gleam in the sun and neigh softly into the night.
Old Bedoin Saying.
The world always looks better when you look at it framed by your horse's ears.
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| Re: Feeding Eggs to Horses [message #1994605 is a reply to message #1994508 ] |
Thu, 02 September 2010 19:21 |
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Ja, Martina: Ich spreche besser Deutsch als Englisch. Hoffe Du findest den Artikel - bin schon gespannt. Wenn's im Deutschen TV war, muss es wohl korrekt sein.....hmm.
Cheers,
Carola
Just for fun, Ash.... give your horse the choice: Put an egg (if you like that of a wild ground nester or your favourite water bird... whichever is handy) in front of your horses' nose, and see what happens. Let me know if it goes "crunch and slurp."
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| Re: Feeding Eggs to Horses [message #1994666 is a reply to message #1994605 ] |
Thu, 02 September 2010 19:59 |
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| Carola Adolf wrote on Thu, 02 September 2010 19:21 |
Ja, Martina: Ich spreche besser Deutsch als Englisch. Hoffe Du findest den Artikel - bin schon gespannt. Wenn's im Deutschen TV war, muss es wohl korrekt sein.....hmm.
Cheers,
Carola
Klasse Muss es suchen, da es ein paar Jahre zurueck liegt.
Kannst Du beim uebersetzen helfen ?!
Nur weil es im Deutschen Fernsehen war, heisst nicht, dass es wahr ist ..... kann ja ein Trick sein
Just for fun, Ash.... give your horse the choice: Put an egg (if you like that of a wild ground nester or your favourite water bird... whichever is handy) in front of your horses' nose, and see what happens. Let me know if it goes "crunch and slurp."
Not sure with a wild eggs, but mine slurp it up no worries !!
Mine don't eat the shell - they are not that WILD
Cheer MARTINA
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| Re: Feeding Eggs to Horses [message #1994735 is a reply to message #1994666 ] |
Thu, 02 September 2010 20:53 |
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Haaahahahaaaaaaa - Groucho.... I can just see my Welshi launching at the low flying wood-ducks taking off from the dam in fear....
ahh - priceless. I needed a laugh.
C.
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| Re: Feeding Eggs to Horses [message #1995007 is a reply to message #1994616 ] |
Fri, 03 September 2010 08:26 |
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| Groucho wrote on Thu, 02 September 2010 19:30 |
Oh FFS
If horses were truly omnivorous, as some of you would have us believe..surely the wild brumbies would have taken to eating kangaroos and wombats by now
If a horse ate meat as a one off occurance...or did it chase the frog around the paddock, kill then eat it....its quite possibly lacking protein (via plant material), or was curious
Horses are NOT omnivorous...very very few flight animals are, because if a horse was truly lusting after meat/eggs/quarter pounders/steak sangas....Im quite sure he would have evolved as a fight animal instead
Otherwise, we'd see every horse every where mungin out on some frog legs, or a low flying duck
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