Feeding fruit to an insulin-resistant horse

[Northerner]

Day in and day out, your horse eats the same thing. Boring? yes. Unbalanced? definitely. You?d like to add some fresh fruits to his diet, especially this time of year with all the summer variety available, but he?s already on the chubby side and you?re afraid of giving him too much sugar. Many, if not most, overweight horses are insulin resistant and it?s true, you do need to limit the sugar (and starch) content of the diet. But there still can be room for some tasty fresh fruit. The key is to evaluate how much sugar your horse is getting in his entire diet.

http://www.horsechannel.com/horse-news/2012/06/16/fruit-for-insulin-resistant-horses.aspx

 

[Pumper_Sue]

One of my horses from years gone by used to love bananas.
Most would would pick their own blackberries from the field hedges.

Simple solution though on cutting back on high sugar content of grass is to give them a feed of hay/straw chaff as fills them up and no room to scoff to much.

 

[Northerner]

One of my horses from years gone by used to love bananas.
Most would would pick their own blackberries from the field hedges.

Simple solution though on cutting back on high sugar content of grass is to give them a feed of hay/straw chaff as fills them up and no room to scoff to much.

Do they eat the skins as well?

 

[Vicsetter]

It's very hard to peel a blackberry, even when you have opposable thumbs🙄😛

 

[Pumper_Sue]

Do they eat the skins as well?

This one certainly didn't.
His previous owner had taught him him to lift his hoof of the ground in exchange for a banana. She used to ask him to say please and hold up the banana for him and in exchange he would lift up his hoof. One very smart pony