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Post by bigmama on Oct 14, 2009 20:07:04 GMT
We pay just 60p a net! we live in the heart of growing land where carrots are cheap as chips .... i guess if you live up in the hills where there are no carrots grown then you are gonna pay megabucks cos of the cost of diesel to transport em to you
Having said that, we do not feed carrots in large quantities due to sugar plus the high water content means hard feed is flushed out of horse's digestive system too quickly thus wasting money
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Post by ada on Oct 14, 2009 20:43:46 GMT
bigmama, i live near you, please yell me where you get carrots from, i pay £1.00 for mine. many thanks in advance.
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Post by drenrowstud on Oct 15, 2009 0:40:37 GMT
odd but true i went to by some carrots in morrisons the other week the normal baged carrots were nearly half the price per kilo of the value ones . i think they need to do a price check .
do other peope check prices of veg when they shop
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Post by denzil2008 on Oct 15, 2009 16:17:04 GMT
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Post by Julie(luke3) on Oct 16, 2009 7:23:25 GMT
£6 for 3 bags here! Was £5 last year. Lovely carrots though x
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Post by seahorse on Oct 17, 2009 22:17:30 GMT
going slightly off thread here sorry but has anyone else tried the dried ones they are fab for getting a fussy horse to drink at events. Carrots here about £2 a net but this is Surrey you pay a premium to breath lol
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Post by northbeech on Oct 18, 2009 18:12:11 GMT
 £3 a bag here in cumbria!!
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Post by geegees on Oct 18, 2009 19:52:40 GMT
£3 in Cumbria, thats a bit expensive Northbeech, we are selling them for £1.90! (in Cumbria).
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Post by gtr121 on Oct 23, 2009 20:38:35 GMT
Glad to say I've found some for £1 a bag again. Happy now as I so hate getting ripped off.
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Post by Ziggy on Oct 24, 2009 6:57:24 GMT
Sorry going off the thread a bit here agian but could someone tell me the benefits of feeding carrots or is it just to spice up the feed for ponies? sorry to be thick!
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Post by Milliesmum on Oct 24, 2009 7:16:27 GMT
Well they're mostly sugar, so not much feed value, but as you said, to keep picky ponies interested and to bulk up the feed for those that don't really need a lot of hard feed.
My friend slices carrots and hides them in her pony's haynet, and she eats more hay this way trying to find the carrots, otherwise she's dead nosey and runs from the net to the door all night frightened she might miss something!
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Post by cassie30 on Oct 24, 2009 7:44:55 GMT
We have one of those MM, haynet to door ponies, so we put her haynet up by the door and found she is much more settled now.
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Post by gtr121 on Oct 24, 2009 20:19:23 GMT
Carrots stop mine gulping down their feed.
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Post by NicolaC on Oct 25, 2009 15:12:08 GMT
£1.50 here in South Lincs for a big bag not the normal bag and I even get them delivered.
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Post by ferret on Oct 25, 2009 17:55:12 GMT
£1.50 for ours
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Post by flair1 on Oct 30, 2009 21:22:43 GMT
Carrots do have a certain amount of sugar in them but in actual fact they have about 90% water, and they do make horses wee alot as there is some sort of natural direuretic in them.
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Post by storr on Nov 1, 2009 0:06:01 GMT
We are £4 something up in scotland.
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Post by dancer on Nov 1, 2009 17:55:20 GMT
i was told on the weekend that carrots kill the white blood cells. Well I don't have any white blood cells at the moment so I'll steer clear of carrots at mealtimes! |
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Post by barefoot on Jan 22, 2010 16:22:00 GMT
They are £2.50 in Aberdeenshire. If i rem rightly it's that they have a high vit A content which is fat soluble and thats why you have to watch them with laminitics but you would have to be feeding a fair whack of them to overdose. ;D
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Post by hollycane on Jan 22, 2010 18:59:34 GMT
I get parsnips and broccolli bottoms from our local producer (admittedly enormous) for nothing but fluttering my ancient eyelashes. I found carrots made my nags wee so much more. I also get swedes and brussells sprouts. They love 'em. Carrots £2.50 here in Hampshire.
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Post by barefoot on Jan 22, 2010 19:33:07 GMT
Now i did not realise you could feed brocolli to horses hollycane-always learning, do they eat it readily then?
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Post by emma3870 on Jan 22, 2010 19:35:38 GMT
I pay £1 per net for carrots from leek Market every other week. last me ages. luckily OH works up there so he can get them for me as we live about an hour away
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Post by proudwilliam on Jan 22, 2010 19:43:04 GMT
Carrots were a god send during the cold weather as hard food was restricted so what,!!
Here in the south west £3 per 12 kilo bags.
We have a large whole saler called Makro and human carrot prices worked about the same as the horse ones!!!!
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Post by dawnie on Jan 22, 2010 21:37:39 GMT
I did he carrots in the haynet thing for one of mine ... result was a chewed haynet and hay all over the floor and wasted as he was carrot hunting! One of mine I dare not give carrots to, they send him loop, just a few and he is like a child after a tub of smarties. I used to have a mare they sent the same way.
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Post by brockd on Jan 25, 2010 14:09:25 GMT
£2.75 in Kent. I feed pears too.
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Post by halfpass on Jan 25, 2010 14:15:49 GMT
Ours love turnips, drill a hole through them them hang it from a rope in the stable, keeps them amused for hours,
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Post by Guestless on Jan 26, 2010 10:03:30 GMT
going slightly off thread here sorry but has anyone else tried the dried ones they are fab for getting a fussy horse to drink at events. I'm really wary of those dried ones. One of the first things you are taught when feeding is always to cut carrots lengthways so they don't get stuck in your horse's gullet, yet the dried ones are sliced.  I had a pony who suffered from choke when I gave her a whole carrot once (I had it in my hand and she was biting it) - it's not nice and pretty darn scary.  |
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Post by ellieraga on Jan 27, 2010 22:14:59 GMT
Halfpass silly question i know but !!! Tried your Turnip suggestion, one pony looks at it as if its landed out of space and doesnt want to go near, other finished hers overnight, how often can i replace , sure they dont do them any harm but thought ought to check  |
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Post by halfpass on Jan 27, 2010 22:19:33 GMT
We only let them have them once or twice a week as any more than that and they get really smelly farts, not good when you are putting on a tail bandage
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Post by ellieraga on Jan 28, 2010 8:13:53 GMT
Many Thanks, will stick to a couple a week max then !!!!
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£3 a bag here in cumbria!! 
