While it’s hard to relate that to our modern equine partners, there are more examples. Your horse may like an occasional bite of your hamburger or tuna sandwich and can eat it without harm.

Horses are herbivores which means they eat plants and hay.
And now I don't have to worry when we're out late in the summer that they might run out of water. They like being able to put their heads in deep and splash around in it.

However, since we don’t know the long-term effects on most horses, a diet high in meat would be inadvisable (along with expensive). The fish poop sinks to the bottom, and it doesn't seem to be causing trouble. Making horses into meat was effectively illegal in the U.S. from 2006-2011, but for years the U.S. has allowed horses to be shipped to slaughterhouses in Mexico and Canada, where eating horse meat is more popular. Horses have the teeth and digestive system of … Note: this list is NOT 100% of every food that a horse should not eat!

2) In Iceland pastured horses are provided, salted fish as a protein and mineral/salt supplement. Alsike clover.

3) Horses have been known to consume raw meat and blood willingly in Arabia, New Zealand, and United States. Tertiary consumers eat other carnivores, obligate carnivores are required to eat meat in order to survive (cats are a great example), piscivores eat mostly fish, and insectivores eat mostly insects.

The horses seem to actively seek out the fish water.
1) BBC also filmed horses eating fish on a beach of an English Island.

These different categories of animals have different physical characteristics due to … The digestive system of horses is geared toward eating plans and hay and should not have to process meat. In Iceland, horses are routinely fed dried fish throughout the winter for extra protein, and beef gelatin and bone meal are commonly used supplements in Europe for promoting hoof growth. A proposed law would end the practice of shipping horses outside the U.S for slaughter.

Please do your research before feeding a horse anything that isn’t on this list.

Only in Iceland will people feed horses dried fish to give them more proteins. Cattle feed. Dusty, moldy or very old hay. Some Foods That Horses SHOULD NOT Eat.