My horses ate bird seed today.....

Troppo

I have been in Melbourne for work, and for craker night two of my girls had a sleepover at a friends house to avoid the carnage.

They broke out of their yard, and ate about 4kg's of bird seed....no idea what time, what brand although it was a budgie mix...., whether it was one horse or both?

They seem fine, have been home for a couple of hours now, have had a couple of poo's. I let them into the paddock to graze to 'move things through' rather than in their yards and only fed them some chaff for tea.

They should be okay....right?

citygirl

when we where in Draught.."bird seed" was one of the alternative feeds..{is it Mullet seed that is mostly in Budgie mix ?} anyway we had to boil and/ or soak it before we feed it..as its a very hard seed. You'll probs fine that most of the seed will just go straight throu your horses..fingers crossed.

Cheers
Lee

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Troppo

Cheers,

I hope so... I will go outand check them again before I go to bed

liver bird

my ponies wud do anything to get at the chook crumble they wer totally obsessed with it so much we had to get rid of the chooks

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myponies

Know of a horse that ate an entire bag of laying pellets in about 2 hours ( 40kg ) he was fine, not hungry for a few days but wow - dapples or what !

WildandFree

lol my old gelding used to eat bird seed parrot mix 1kg of of it and was fine it wa at his new home and found a packet of it beside the fence was so funny

he was fine look rather pleased with him self lol]

WnF

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pugjoey

Silly horses!!! Did any of them suddenly know how to fly!!!!

myponies

No eggs either

simmo

Guy across the road from use puts seed into his horse feed so when they doopt it would seed the paddock and came in its own firtilizer pack. and it worked too. so put horse doop on all the bare spots

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Brodie1808

our old shetty would actually open the bird cage door and walk into the little avairy sp? to get to the bird seed even with the cockatoo going mental (always gave him away though lol) he never got sick.