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Item related to horses

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TulipTuesday · 09/03/2024 11:19

I’m using the MN hive mind because we’re drawing a blank.

DH’s football team take an ‘item of the week’ to all matches as a bit of fun. This week the item is ‘something related to horses’ but not a photo/picture of a horse as that’s cheating.

We don’t have a horseshoe or anything like that so what could he take that we’re likely to find in our house in the next hour?!

It’s only a bit of fun so it really doesn’t matter, but I’ve got a bee in my bonnet about it now 😄

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FrostyFroggy · 09/03/2024 11:22

A handful of mud? (Horsey person here and currently it's all mud!)

Flatleak · 09/03/2024 11:23

Something braided? Some apples or sugar cubes? A rug?

Flatleak · 09/03/2024 11:24

Have you got a tube of polos?!

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user1469908676728 · 09/03/2024 11:25

They’re very partial to a polo, mints, apples, carrots!

DSD9472 · 09/03/2024 11:25

A sugar cube, carrot, onion or handful of grass?

Maddy70 · 09/03/2024 11:26

Straw
Whip (no judgement here lol)
Brush
Shovel
Wellies
Carrot

CandidFruit · 09/03/2024 11:27

Do you have a rosette lying around in a drawer of doom?
I think we have a few birthday ones in ours.

SevenSeasOfRhye · 09/03/2024 11:27

If you have a newspaper, cut out the race cards from the sporting section.

FrostyFroggy · 09/03/2024 11:28

DSD9472 · 09/03/2024 11:25

A sugar cube, carrot, onion or handful of grass?

I'm intrigued by the onion....

TulipTuesday · 09/03/2024 11:28

These are brilliant ideas, thank you!

Typically we have no carrots or apples in. No Polos either, but do I have some Extra Strong Mints 😄

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FrostyFroggy · 09/03/2024 11:30

TulipTuesday · 09/03/2024 11:28

These are brilliant ideas, thank you!

Typically we have no carrots or apples in. No Polos either, but do I have some Extra Strong Mints 😄

My pony likes to share extra strong mints with my husband. Good call!

idontlikealdi · 09/03/2024 11:33

Extra strong mints will work:)

DSD9472 · 09/03/2024 11:33

FrostyFroggy · 09/03/2024 11:28

I'm intrigued by the onion....

I helped out in stables as a child, and they used to give us a peeled onion to feed the horses which they gobble down! This was abroad, so maybe not the done thing now? I have no idea?

DomesticatedSavage · 09/03/2024 11:34

Stop at the Bookies on the way and pick up a betting slip

TulipTuesday · 09/03/2024 11:41

CandidFruit · 09/03/2024 11:27

Do you have a rosette lying around in a drawer of doom?
I think we have a few birthday ones in ours.

I thought this was going to be the winner, I was convinced we had one somewhere among the sentimental birthday cards but I can’t find it!

Extra Strong mints may have to work

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CandidFruit · 09/03/2024 11:46

TulipTuesday · 09/03/2024 11:41

I thought this was going to be the winner, I was convinced we had one somewhere among the sentimental birthday cards but I can’t find it!

Extra Strong mints may have to work

Oh no!

OK, Plan B is a copy of Jilly Cooper’s Riders… 😉

DSD9472 · 09/03/2024 11:48

Another idea- any books with horses?
Black beauty, encyclopedia with pics?

Blackcats7 · 09/03/2024 11:49

DSD9472 · 09/03/2024 11:33

I helped out in stables as a child, and they used to give us a peeled onion to feed the horses which they gobble down! This was abroad, so maybe not the done thing now? I have no idea?

Onions are not good for horses in fact they are toxic so anybody reading this please don’t feed them

DSD9472 · 09/03/2024 11:56

@Blackcats7 Thank you for letting us all know. As said, this was abroad when I was child, so clearly they had no idea onions were toxic 😬

FrostyFroggy · 10/03/2024 11:33

Blackcats7 · 09/03/2024 11:49

Onions are not good for horses in fact they are toxic so anybody reading this please don’t feed them

Thank you!
There's a quote in one of the herriot books about and old dales farmer talking about putting an onion in a horse's rectum to make it get to it's feet. Herriot rightly said something on the lines of 'would you like an onion up your rectum' to the farmer.
So i thought I'd ask the question 😂 😳

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