By: Natalie R
on January 12, 2010
in General Questions
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i am a 300 pound man and i like to ride my minature pony, her name is flower but she is underweight, i try to feed her beef but she wont eat it what sould i do?
OK first of all if you are 300 lbs you should not be riding a miniature horse as you may ( will ) cause damage to her fragile back. Also the equine is a herbivore which means they only eat plants, so the reason she isn't eating your beef is because her teeth are not made for chewing meat and it isn't appetizing to her because she isn't a carnivore. your best bet is to feed her what she likes best.... forage and granules.... ( hay and/or grass and oats and/or grain. )
ok if ur 300 pounds u shouldnt bee riding a mini at ALLLLLLLLLL!!! and if ur expect ur 500 lbs uncle to ride her u must be brian damaged... stop joking around and get off this site and go on the biggest loser... p.s. horses dont eat meat... they r herbivores (that means they eat plants idoit)
yeah. it seems a bit ridiculous. Someone is jsut on here to rile people up. They know we horse people get a tad crazy when it comes to mistreatment of the animals. :P
okay so pretty much minis should NEVER be ridden by anyone other than small children and horses should NEVER be fed meat products! they are herbivores! and a horse can only safely carry 1/3 its body weight without doing damage to itself
if your this ignorant to horses and horse care you really should not be owning a horse because - tough but true- ull be ridding that mini one day and shell fall under you and you will squash her
so im sorry but either never ride her again and learn how to properly care for her or sell her to someone that understands basic horsecare
ok yea i know wat i said was mean... but obviously (if this person was real... which they r not) they would be abusing animals and that upsets me... if someone was being cruel to animals wouldnt you be mean back!
Sorry. But this was only a joke to a friend and it was never meant for people to get wound up. I actually weigh like 90 pounds and I don't even own a miniature.
Hey Jennifer. what if this person was actually serious not about the horse but about weighing that much. Think about how much you would hurt her feelings. Think about it the next time you answer something on here.
well maybe ur friend should think about things before they say them... o and yea and that joke was really hilarious wasnt it?? o yea y dont you joke about the abusement of animals thats soooo funny huh? i mean really! like i said before, the abuse of animals isnt right AT ALL and if someone is being mean to animals we should have some sorta right to be mean back... i mean if someone offends you, you would say something back right? i wouldnt just sit there and watch it happen!
i thought it was hilarious.... when i was reading it i was like... o.O this is a joke right...???? lol atually my horse has eaten a taco once xD ! lol i was eating in the field and he is used to being able to have taco shells so he came up and grabbed it lol i was laughing to hard to be mad xD
Dude, slow your roll and back off the chick. Any person who takes a moment to think about this will know its just a joke. I mean common the horse would lay down/ collapse before it would carry that kind of weight. And you know, maybe everyone ought to take a moment to just breath and think about what was said. Yeah maybe she should have thought about people becoming uptight about this, but she's a teenager. She's still learning and part of learning is making mistakes. Also I know people who are 300 lbs and ride 18 hh draft horses. They know they're fat and don't need people to remind them off it. It just makes them feel a whole lot worse. Plus some people can't help their weight because of their bone structure. My uncle had an abnormally large chest and couldn't get his weight under 350 because of it. In the end it killed him.
And no I wouldn't say something back to someone who offends me because most of the time it leads to stuff like this. Tempers flaring, angry words, rudeness. The world has enough of that without people like me adding to it. I would probably just tell them that yes that offends me, why it offends, and then just leave well enough alone.
This was meant to be a joke between friends, and probably should have stayed that way, but live and learn then give love.
I do agree with Quincy though, pretty funny... :)
Is the person retarded?????? Horses don't eat meat!!!!!!! WOW!!!!!! Even the most city slinker would know that!! And OMG you're gonna kill your mini by trying to ride her!!!
I would suggest not to give them meat (horses don't eat meat) My horses seem underweight, too and i give them rice bran and vintage victory morning and night, they also get hay stretcher for lunch, I would consider talking to a vet or whoever sells you your horses food about how you should up their grain. I also don't think you should try to ride the horse because of your weight. I would try to loose weight, or an easier solution, drive the mini (they can pull more than they carry) and maybe ride a larger horse. I don't want to hurt your feelings about your weight, because I hate it when people comment on my weight, so no hard feelings. I wish you luck with your mini! :D
Sorry but I kinda over reacted. I agree it's a joke. I get that, but still, it's not funny and they should consider the results of people's thoughts. Also, maybe just do it on each other's barn wall's? I apologize and now thinking about it, it's obiously a joke....
this was just meant to be a joke sent to a friend cause we have an inside joke, but it will take too long to explain, i apologize for posting it on the Q and A i am new to this site and dont know how it works, but htank you catherine you are very helpful, if i ever do get a miniature, i will use the information u sent im sorry if this caused people to be angry, i am not abusive to animals, it was an inside joke,. nobody needs to be upset
ok i get its a joke but still, i didnt exactly think that it was funny, if you thought it was go ahead, but im just really sorta uptight about this because my mom kept her horse at a barn and the ppl never feed it well and started to work her horse really hard and she never knew until one of her friends told her and then when i sold my mini horse the lady there never toke care of him and he was really dirty and never got excirse and the other horse he was with beat him up, so im just uptight about this cuz r horses were abused and i really dont find the topic funny at all. (o and i wasnt really trying to make fun of fat people... my best friend is like 300lbs so yea)
I've had and abused horses too. Sorry to hear about your horse.But my friends illness is a little depressing so she needed a good laugh. . I guess Natalie that you should of never said anything if people would take it THIS seriously.
Good Gravey this got out of hand huh? It was obviously a joke. After a few minutes of thinking about it, if this had in fact been something that was happening I'm sure someone would have been called on it. I think it's kind of funny to read how people react. It's like reading a long thread on a gaming messege board...always entertaining.
I don't actually find the joke it's self funny, but I find some people's reactions hililarious. reminds me of when someone at my barn drew a horse on our chalk board and then my friends dad wrote a question asking waht is was, we all acted stupid and wrote dumb answers like cow, llama, lamp, ect. then someone came along and wrote on their calling us stupid lol. No sense of humor lol
oh and p.s. I have seen a horse eat a chicken strip, it was quite odd. but yeah he just ate it without a second thought.
my horses have eaten meat before we where barbacuing outside and my horses (one of them figured out how to open the gate) they came over and at all of the hamberger paddy's that where on the plate there where like 20-25 paddy's.(i was inside at the time getting the stuff to go with the paddy's) when i came out i chased them all back into there pasture but they had eaten them all without a second thought. it was really funny just because horses dont ushually eat meat.
i find this post very funny. the question wasnt really that funny but just the way some people reacted even after finding out that it was a joke. i was shocked and angry the first time i read it but then i read it like 4 more times and it became funny once i realized it was a joke and nothing was hurt. except for some peoples fealings who took it to seriously. but i do agree that in the future a post like this thats between two people should go on the other persons wall not in Q-A where everyone can see it.
LOL
wow this had some funnny comments. Right wheni read this i knew it wasnt for real. Who in their right mind would be 300lbs and ride a mini..that poor thing would die on impact. Not being mean or anything, i just have a family member that size and she got on my 17.2 hh tb mare and she even had a tough time...lol..sadly...but this was very intertaining to read.
my gelding ate my chocolate chip granola bar yesterday -.-
