Anyone have good horse cookie recipes?

[luna17]

Preferably ones that don’t involve buying out a Whole Foods baking aisle… Just curious. I made some a while back with melted mint, oatmeal, and some crushed apples, but I can never seem to make them the same texture as the pictures. They get all burnt on the bottom but don’t cook thoroughly. Anyways, enough with myself. I’d be much obliged if anyone had any good recipes!

P.S. Is some homemade grape jelly going to kill them? I’ve known a few people to give it as a treat.

Thanks!

[beowulf]

i’ve made very basic treats, kind of grab and go with what i have… so it’s always cobbled together and not really a set instructions list.

take some fruit (apples, bananas, whatever you have they can eat), carrots, a little oil, a few cups of oats, molasses or some other binder agent (apple sauce works great, pumpkin puree, peanut butter) and then cook low heat…

if you add things you like into it you can eat it too.

[kch7238]

My horse has to take a pill and she is very crafty about not eating strange things in her feed. So my barn helper found this recipe on line. We bake them this short amount of time so they stay soft enough that I can poke a pill into one. The dough freezes and the treats freeze well after baking. It makes so many I freeze them in zip locks and pull them out as needed. I make them in mini muffin pans so they resemble stud muffins.
23 ounces applesauce
12 ounces molasses
2 cups flour
6 cups oats
1 cup corn or veg oil
Combine all, if mixture is too soupy add more oats. Drop by spoonfuls on a cookie sheet or put in mini muffin pans. Bake 20 minutes at 300 degrees for soft treats. Makes about 90 more or less.
Edited to add: I have also put grated carrots or crushed peppermint in them

[trubandloki]

Thank you kch7238! I have been meaning to look for a soft treat recipe. I keep buying squeezy buns by the bucket to hide pills.

[beowulf]

[QUOTE=trubandloki;8281061]
Thank you kch7238! I have been meaning to look for a soft treat recipe. I keep buying squeezy buns by the bucket to hide pills.[/QUOTE]

did you try fig newtons? horses love them!

[trubandloki]

[QUOTE=beowulf;8281080]
did you try fig newtons? horses love them![/QUOTE]
No.
I did not know horses loved them.
Really?
Wow!
This thread has been amazing!
Fig newtons are on my grocery list now.

[beowulf]

[QUOTE=trubandloki;8281110]
No.
I did not know horses loved them.
Really?
Wow!
This thread has been amazing!
Fig newtons are on my grocery list now.[/QUOTE]

great for doxy or other pills you have to feed over 10 of… ask me how i know. :mad:

i buy the off brand fig newtons. they get stale quicker but horses don’t seem to care and for $2 cheaper it makes me happy.

[rascalpony]

I got lucky on this. My pony eats everything. The list of food she has stolen from me includes Cheerios, cinnamon Goldfish, bananas, Saltines, Ritz crackers, apple juice, regular Goldfish, Twizzlers, watermelon…the list goes on. Pony is not picky. Oddly neither she or my other horse like sugar cubes though.

The recipe they loved most was oats mixed with molasses, some vegetable oil and flour. You’d spoon them onto a baking tray and bake. They looked a little ugly, but they smelled like heaven! (My horses thought they tasted that way too.) It sounds similar to kch7238’s recipe. And her idea of crushed peppermint is a great one!