My friend and I are wanting to make some treats for our horses, but everytime we have tried to make some before they’ve never worked… So we need a good, horse-safe treat or cookie recipe that you KNOW WORKS! Any help will be greatly appreciated, thanks! 
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The easiest:
Plain dry pasta - any shape is acceptable.
It is truly amazing how much they love this.
I can bring horses in from pasture just by rattling the pasta box.
Doesn’t spoil, requires minimal ingredient-shopping < go to $1 Store, buy 2 boxes for $1.
Are you looking for hard or soft treats? I made treats a few years ago for my barn for X-mas and the horses went nuts for them, but they were soft and sticky and kind of a mess. Definitely not something to stick in your pocket.
In the same vein as 2Dogs, I often buy dry cereal for my horses as treats. You can buy a big box of organic mini wheat type cereal for about $3 and be the hit of the barn, with better quality ingredients than commercial horse treats.
Ah, CrowneD - a fellow cheapskate :winkgrin:
Forgot to mention the $1 Store gingersnaps I regularly stock.
32 cookies to a bag.
At the rate of 6 per day (3 to each horse every evening & believe me they can count!) it costs me a little over $.20/week to keep them happy.
Sometimes I can find iced oatmeal cookies on sale - 2 dozen for under $2.
I may try the bargain bagged generic frosted mini-wheats just for a change.
Not as healthy as your organic version, but still a crowd-pleaser I bet!
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Ah, CrowneD - a fellow cheapskate :winkgrin:
Forgot to mention the $1 Store gingersnaps I regularly stock.
32 cookies to a bag.
At the rate of 6 per day (3 to each horse every evening & believe me they can count!) it costs me a little over $.20/week to keep them happy.
Sometimes I can find iced oatmeal cookies on sale - 2 dozen for under $2.
I may try the bargain bagged generic frosted mini-wheats just for a change.
Not as healthy as your organic version, but still a crowd-pleaser I bet![/QUOTE]
Yes, we love human cookies, graham crackers, and granola bars too! And I’m not cheap; I’m (horse)poor. There’s a difference! :lol:
I’ve tried this recipe before and the horses at the barn I go to love them- just mix equal amounts of oats and molasses (did I spell that right:lol:) and form them in to little balls. Horses go CRAZY for them!! Just don’t feed them too many too often because of the sugar content:)
Yep, I’m a fan of cheap iced oatmeal cookies. Both the horses and I love them!
StG
I have to try the iced oatmeal cookies - never thought of that! My guy loves those spice wafers that come out every fall. They are kind of like ginger snaps but have a little bit of cinnamon. You can get a box with two big cellophane wrapped stacks for $2.
In a really big bowl put 9 cups of sweetfeed, 3 cups of flour and blend together. Fold in 3 cups of dark molasses gradually and blend until all dry ungredients are folded in or your arm falls out of the socket- whichever comes first.
Spray muffin tins with Pam or other non stick spray and spoon mixture in filling no more than half way for regular ones, a bit more for the mini muffin size.
Bake at 350 for16 mins for mini size, 20 for regular size. Cool for 5 mins in pans then remove and finish cooling on a baking rack.
Store in sealable containers.
Usually makes about 48 mini and 12 regular.
They keep and horses go mental for them.
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In a really big bowl put 9 cups of sweetfeed, 3 cups of flour and blend together. Fold in 3 cups of dark molasses gradually and blend until all dry ungredients are folded in or your arm falls out of the sicket- whichever comes first.
Spray muffin tins with Pam or other nin stick spray and spoon mixture in filling no more than half way for regular ones, a bit more for the mini muffin size.
Bake at 350 for16 mins for mini size, 20 for regular size. Cool for 5 mins in pans then remove and finish cooling on a baking rack.
Store in sealable containers.
Usually makes about 48 mini and 12 regular.
They keep and horses go mental for them.[/QUOTE]
Do these get hard or stay sort of soft like a stud muffin? My guy would eat stud muffins by the truckload. He likes hard treats too but not as much as the soft ones.
They are quite soft and are the best stud muffin knock offs ever!
I make my own stud muffins too. Don’t have the recipe handy right now,but will post it. I use silicone mini muffins moulds… They get hard if I over bake them. The batch I keep in the barn fridge (they got mouldy in the tack room because of the heat and humidity) is quite nice and soft and I insert my mare’s Previcox in them so my friend can easily give it to her when I cannot come to the barn.
My BO gives me the grain for free and the local feed dealer sells jugs of molasses cheaply. They turn out big enough you can break them into “bites” and would be a very easy way to get meds into a horse without too much fuss. I have also put them in cookie tins from the dollar store with jaunty tissue as horsey Xmas or hostess gifts.
Here is my recipe:
1 1/4 cup of steel cut oats
3/4 molasses
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup of ground flax
2 tsp cornstarch
1/4 water
Apple pieces
Bake @ 350 for 20 - 25 min. I still want them a bit soft on top but not crumbly.
I often double or triple the recipe and use small muffins tins. And the horses love them!
http://www.amazon.com/The-Original-Book-Horse-Treats/dp/0963881418
The recipe for their version of “Stud Muffins” is wonderful, easy and the horses love them.
At the recent AETA trade show, Stud Muffins is now offering a 50% less sugar content treat called “Stud Muffins Slims”. How many treats are people feeding their horses? 
I would be careful about giving your horse lots of wheat flour, cereal, pasta, or cookies meant for human consumption. I still remember the admonition from my Pony Club manual: “Wheat is a thoroughly bad food and should be avoided.” I looked it up on an equine nutrition site, and it did identify wheat as not very digestible for horses. In small quantities, it is probably OK, but I’d be very careful with it.
We used to feed Apple Wafers until they got so expensive and hard to find. One day when I was at the local feed mill where we have our custom horse feed prepared, I picked up a “Cow cube”…14% creep feed (NO medication) in a shape like my thumb. I asked the mill people if it would be safe to give a horse - they said yes, it is only grain. Well now…8 years later, that is the only treat my horses like/LOVE!! If I threw one on the barn roof all the horses would be jumping up to get it!! It costs less that $9 for 50 pounds. For 20 horses…baking treats isn’t an option and these are cheap, easy…they live in my pockets for days,(more than one has gone through the full wash cycle and dryer without fail) and apparently delicious…my horses can smell them on me for miles!! Check it out.
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I would be careful about giving your horse lots of wheat flour, cereal, pasta, or cookies meant for human consumption. I still remember the admonition from my Pony Club manual: “Wheat is a thoroughly bad food and should be avoided.” I looked it up on an equine nutrition site, and it did identify wheat as not very digestible for horses. In small quantities, it is probably OK, but I’d be very careful with it.[/QUOTE]
Wheat should be tolerated fine :). A lot of concentrates are wheat middling-based, and when I lived in CA beardless wheat and wheat mix (“forage”) hay was fairly common. A lot of commercial horse treats contain wheat flour, as well.
The benefit of getting human treats for your horses is that you can share 
Maybe in Pony Club they meant to not feed too much wheat bran, because of the inverted Ca:P ratio?
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I have to try the iced oatmeal cookies - never thought of that! My guy loves those spice wafers that come out every fall. They are kind of like ginger snaps but have a little bit of cinnamon. You can get a box with two big cellophane wrapped stacks for $2.[/QUOTE]
The problem with these is I eat them!
Sunkissed Acres was selling a cookbook that had animal treat recipes. One that my horses loved was Grapenuts cerial mixed with peppermint flavoring, light corn syrup and when we made them for christmas gifts, food coloring. Formed them into mounds, baked a little and viola!
