Shoeless Joe's Treat

1/2 cup molasses
1/4 cup water
3/4 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup oats
1 cup sweet feed

Pour molasses and water into a pot and turn on medium heat. Stir continuously until it starts to bubble but not boil. After it bubbles, turn the heat on low. Stir in the flour completely before adding and stirring in the oats. Take off heat and quickly stir in the sweet feed. Place on non stick cookie sheet or waxed paper. It should be the consistency of cookie dough. Let cool and roll into balls to feed to your horse. Shoeless Joe just loves 'em! Emily

Barnman's Healthy Delight

1 big apple
Bunch of little carrots
3 sticks celery
2 pieces lettuce

Chop everything small, and put it in a baggie. Store in the refrigerator as long as possible. Horses love it! Mallory and Barney

Competitive Trail Riding/Endurance Horse Shake

2 apples, cut up
5 carrots, cut up
Lots of water!

Cut everything up and put in a blender. Blend until smooth and watery. Pour over some cut up apples and carrots. My horse, Beswick, and I do competitive trail riding, and it's great for horses that don't drink a lot of water. Even if you don't do competitive riding, it's great to cool off your horse after a ride. Try it. It's really simple! Bizzy and Beswick

Barney's Special Treat

1/2 cup flour
1/4 cup oil
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 tablespoon milk
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup uncooked Quaker Oatmeal
17 baby carrots chopped very small

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix all the ingredients in big bowl. Keep foil on ungreased cookie sheet. Make the dough into about 1 inch balls. It will make about 17 balls. Put them on the ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 12-13 minutes. Let them cool about 30 minutes. Place in a BIG Ziplock bag. Close the bag tightly and mash them all together so it makes big crumbs. Store at room temperature. Then serve to your hungry friend. I'm sure your horse will love them. I know my horse, Barney, sure does! Enjoy, Mallory Kolpin and Barney

Healthy Equine Popsicle

1 cup carrot juice
1/2 cup apple juice
Carrot bits and pieces and/or apple chunks
1 teaspoon sugar
About 2 long carrots (optional)

Mix carrot juice and apple juice together. Add the sugar and mix until it has dissolved. Add the carrots and apples. Place in ice cube containers for bite sized pieces or put a long carrot in the center of a small bowl half way through the freezing process. The carrot will act as a stick. Put in the freezer overnight. My horse Cheetah loves these! Hannah

DESI'S DELICIOUS HORSE COOKIES

1 cup oats
1/2 cup shredded carrot
1/2 cup finely diced apple
1 cup oatmeal
1/4 cup molasses
1/4 cup water
1 cup flour
teaspoon of sugar
1/2 teaspoon of salt

Preheat the oven to 360 degrees. Stir the ingredients into a sticky mixture. Roll the mix into balls with your hands. About a heaping spoonful of the mixture makes each ball. Grease a cookie sheet and arrange the balls on it. Bake for around 5 to 10 minutes or until golden brown. Let cool before feeding to your horsy pal. The treats can be stored at room temperature in a jar. They make a great gift for your favorite horse, or friend's horse. Enjoy the treats! Megan These treats are in memory of a great little mare named Desi, who died of colic in late June of 2002

Mister's Treats

This recipe was developed for Mister when he was losing his baby teeth. During that period, he could not eat carrots, apples, or hard commercial treats. He loved this special treat!

1 quart Nutrena Life Design Youth
2 cups Quaker Oats
1/4 cup salt (The extra salt helps to keep infections away from the teeth and acts as electrolytes)
3 carrots, finely grated
1/2 cup applesauce
1/2 cup hot molasses
1/2 cup corn syrup

Combine youth feed with carrots, salt, and oats in a bowl. Mix well. Heat molasses and add with corn syrup to the mix. Add applesauce and mix. Roll into balls and bake on a greased cookie sheet at 200 degrees for an hour. Let cool and place in a container to stay fresh. Tyler

Amber's Favorite Treat

1 apple
8 baby carrots
2 teaspoons sugar
3 tablespoons water
2 heaping tablespoons Quaker Oats (optional)
1 sandwich sized Ziplock bag

Chop the apples into medium or small sized cubes. Chop the carrots into thirds or fourths. Put the chopped ingredients into the bag. Add the quaker oats, sugar, and water. Shake until all the ingredients are mixed thoroughly. Stephanie

Shortie's Strawberry Sweets

A few strawberries
Sugar
Molasses
Paper plate for mixing

Put some molasses on a paper plate. Take some strawberries, cut the tops off, and roll them in the molasses. Then sprinkle some sugar on the strawberries. Shortie Loves them! Hilary

Vicki's Muffins

1-1/2 cup bran
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 cup milk
1/2 cup of molasses
2 tablespoons corn oil (it can be any vegetable oil)
1 egg, beaten

Stir together bran, flour, soda, and baking powder. Mix in milk, molasses, oil, and the egg. Bake in GREASED muffin tins at 400 degrees for 15 minutes. Your horses might fight over these cookies! Tara

Magic's Pizza Treats

1 or more plain rice cakes
Molasses
Apples
Carrots
Any small treats your horse loves

Coat the rice cake with the molasses and decorate like a pizza with any small treats your horse loves. Magic loves them! Elizabeth

Hershey's Arabian Apple Kisses

Apple slices
White/brown sugar
Oats
Apple sauce

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Set apples aside. Combine oats, sugar, and apple sauce in a large bowl. DON'T use too much apple sauce or else mixture will be too soggy. Line apple slices on a cookie sheet. Take mixture and dribble over slices so that each slice is thoroughly covered. Place cookie sheet in oven and bake for 5-10 minutes. Take out, let cool, and let your horse enjoy! Liz

Carrots, Apples, and Oats

Slice 1 apple into small chunks in a bag. Cut 3 baby carrots and put them in the bag. Add 1/2 cup of oats and 1/4 cup sugar to the bag and shake. My horse loves it! Emma

Jacob and Sage's Christmas Eve Surprise

Tupperware
Apples, large or small, any amount
Molasses, any amount
Cinnamon, heavy or light sprinkle
Oatmeal or bran, optional

Chop apples into pieces. Place in tupperware. Pour molasses over apples. Add cinnamon. If your horses don't like molasses, cinnamon sticks to apples well. Cover tupperware and shake. Sprinkle with bran or oatmeal and shake again. Serve chilled or unchilled. A guaranteed bowl licker! Abby

Apple an' Oat Mush

2 small apples
2 cups of oatmeal (dry)
1/4 cup of vegetable oil
1/4 cup of molasses
2 teaspoons of sugar
1/4 cup of flour
1/4 cup of water

Shred the apples in a cheese grater. Put them in a bowl. Add the oats, vegetable oil, molasses, sugar, flour, and water. Mix well with an electric mixer. Add more oats or flour if too watery, or add more water if too sticky. My horse Beswick loves this after a ride. Bizzy & Beswick

Rice Krispie Bars

1 cup Rice Krispies
1/4 cup molasses
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 shredded apple
2 teaspoons sugar
1/2 cup flour
1/4 cup water

Mix everything together in a bowl. Make a rectangle with some tin foil about the shape of granola bars. Pour mixture into the bars then set on a cookie sheet. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Cook for 15 minutes or until they turn hard. Take out of tin foil and place in the refrigerator overnight or for 30 minutes before serving. Beswick Loves them! Bizzy & Beswick

Skylar's Summer Carrot Candies

3 large carrots
1/2 (one half) small red apple
2 tablespoons brown sugar
3 tablespoons unbleached flour
5 crackers, the dry, crunchy kind
3 tablespoons molasses
1/2 (one half) cup Quaker oats
raisins (optional)

Peel the carrots and cut them into chunks. Size really doesn't matter at this point. Cut the apple as well. You can include the core but try to remove all the seeds. Put the apple and carrot pieces into the blender and blend for a few seconds or until finely chopped. Add the crackers and the Quaker oats and blend again until all the pieces are about the same size. Pour the molasses in and add the flour and brown sugar. Blend again until fairly smooth. There can be a few chunks of carrot but try to get it as smooth as possible. If the mixture appears to be too dry, you may add a very small amount of fruit juice. Now grease a mini muffin tin using vegetable oil (as horses are vegetarians) and flour the pan. Fill the tin with the mixture and if you like top each "candy" with a raisin. Sprinkle lightly with flour and cover with plastic wrap and put in the freezer for 3-4 hours. Serve cold.

Stuffed Carrots

1 apple
Large carrots (not baby carrots)
Sugar

Cut the ends off the carrots so that the piece is one inch long. Hollow it out. Dice the apples into very small pieces. Dice the carrot centers and mix them together with the diced apple until it's a paste. Roll the hollowed out carrot pieces in sugar. Stuff the apple and carrot paste into the large carrot pieces. Feed to your horse. Can be stored in the freezer. Kristina

Horsy Trail Mix

Apples
Carrots
Sugar

Dice the apples into large pieces and cut the carrots into medium pieces. Add one half teaspoon sugar and shake for 10 seconds. Can be stored in the freezer. Kristina

Shem's Winter Warmer

1 cup equi-pellets or oats
2 cups molasses
1 cup wheaten chaff
1 cup oaten chaff
1 cup lucern chaff
1 cup bran
Hot water
Carrots and apples

Mix chaff and oats together in a bucket. In a separate bucket, mix water and molasses and pour over chaff mix. Mix it all together thoroughly. How much water and molasses you use is up to you. Add the carrots and apples. This feed can be split to use for 2 or 3 horses or just add a handful to their normal feed, because it is quite rich; and you don't want your horse to colic. My Arabian, Shem, likes this in a thick consistency like a regular feed, but my little welsh, Penny, likes it wet and runny. All the horses I've fed it to love it, and yours will too! Cobie

Apple Pulp

A favorite treat of my horses is apple pulp. A man who owns an apple orchard near us gives us buckets of the apple pulp for the horses. The pulp is what remains after you press it for apple cider we all love to drink. He hates to see it go to waste, so we pick up a huge bucket from him every week. I just thought I would share that with you. Melanie

Nasty Weather Treat

My horses absolutely love this easy idea recipe especially on cold winter days or cold rainy days. Amounts can vary depending on how many hungry mouths you are feeding.

Bran
Sweet feed
Chopped carrots or apples
Molasses

Mix together and serve warm (not hot). The horses love it! Melanie

Holly's Homemade Horse Jerky

1 apple
2 carrots
6 strawberries
1 cup oatmeal
1/2 (one half) cup molasses
1/3 (one third) cup feed (optional)

Take the apple, carrots, and strawberries and dice them. Put in a large bowl and add molasses. Mix well. Then stir in oatmeal and feed. Put in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Next feed to your horse. Horses go crazy over them. Kristina and Jerica

Tony's Apple Snacks

Large Apple
Bran
Molasses
Diced carrots (optional)

Hollow large apple as if it were a pumpkin. Mix the other ingredients together and place in the apple. Freeze overnight; and the next day, warm it up in the microwave for about 30 seconds. Cut it up and serve! Dana and Tony

Beauty's Apples

Apples, chopped
Honey
Cinnamon
Plate
Knife

Mix honey and cinnamon together. Then take the knife and spread the honey and cinnamon on apple chunks. Sutter and Beauty

Falima's Sweet Tooth Treat

Quaker Oats
Sugar
Salt
Carrots
Molasses
Water if necessary but not too much

Heat oven to around 350 degrees. Mix everything together in a bowl. Have cupcake trays greased. Once all ingredients are mixed, scoop evenly into cupcake trays. Cook for about 10 to 15 minutes. They usually break up and look like sweet feed. Try to pack them down in the pan. Your horse will enjoy them! Theresa Ruland

Amazingly Good "Soup"

Exact amounts variable:

Carrots
Lettuce
Minced apples
Tomatoes

T.T.F.N. Tigger's Early Morning Breakfast

2 chopped up carrots
1 chopped up apple
1 handful of sweetfeed
1 handful of pellets
4 sugar cubes
molasses

1. Mix the chopped carrots and apples with the sweetfeed and pellets.
2. Soak the mixture with molasses
3. Freeze over night.
4. Bring to your horse early in the morning.
5. Put the frozen mixture in your horse's food bucket.
6. Place the sugar cubes on top.
7. Let your horse enjoy.

Sara and Tigger

Some Horse Treat

1 cup flour
1 handful horse feed
1 tablespoon sugar
1/2 (one half) handful oats
1/2 (one half) cup molasses

Anonymous

Snow Mash

If you have snow where you live, mix about one or one and a half cups of grain with some snow. Save it in a sandwich sized Ziplock bag and store in the freezer. In the summer when it is hot, give your horse a half a bag or so. My Haflingers loved a nice sweet, cold snack on a hot summer day. (Editor's note: Do not feed anything this cold to your horse after a hard workout as it could cause colic.)

Sunnygirls Smart Snacks
(Medicine ball)

1 packet of instant oatmeal
1 handful of oats
1/2 (one half) cup molasses
4 tablespoons peanut butter
Any medicine they don't like to take

Mix all together in small balls so it all sticks together. Sprinkle sugar if you want. Serve and watch them gobble it up while taking their medicine. They won't even notice! Lindsey Winters

Carrot Horse Cookies

2 cups feed (sweet or pellets)
2 cups rolled oats
2 cups shredded carrots or apples
1 1/2 (one and one half) cups raisin bran cereal
1 cup molasses
1/4 (one quarter) cup brown sugar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease cookie sheets. Combine all ingredients and drop small spoonfuls on sheet. If mixture isn't clumping, add water and try again. Cookies don't rise, so place as many on a sheet as possible. Bake 1 hour, turn off oven and let cookies sit for another hour before removing from sheet.

These cookies are hard, numerous, and they won't go bad any time soon. You may want to make a half size recipe. This is an all day project, but you will have treats for months. This is a great recipe that I want to share with all my horsy friends! Meghan, Va Tech

Lone Star's Pony Pizza

1 plain rice cake
Applesauce
Carrot slices
Apples slices

Spread some applesauce on the rice cake, and then take your cut apples and carrots and put them on top. Horses love them! Helen M. Richardson

Swan's Mash

1 packet of instant Oatmeal
1/4 (one quarter) cup molasses
5 baby carrots

Prepare the oatmeal, chop carrots, and mix all ingredients together. My pony, Swan, loves it!

Maggie's Ice Cream Cones

Mix about 1/4 (one quarter) cup applesauce and a small handful of horse feed. Put in an ice cream cone and sprinkle with a bit of sugar. Add some oats and grated carrots and/or apples on top. This is Maggie's ice cream cone and she loves it. My girls enjoy feeding it to her. We also put her pills inside if she has to take any type of medicine, and she just crunches away never noticing the medicine. Yum, yum... good! The Bryants

Sugar And Rice Crispies Coated Apples

2 apples
1/2 cup sugar
Small bowl of molasses
1 cup Rice Crispies

Cut apples into about 5 slices each. Put sugar and rice crispies in a big zip lock baggy. dip apple pieces in molasses and add to baggy. Once all are added, zip shut and shake. My horse loves them. Diana Suhr