Bucket Of Treats
Bucket of Treats
Behaviors
Foraging, Chewing
Animals
Horses
Type
Manipulanda
Why They Love It
Horses are given forage material daily. Bucket of Treats is offered to mimic a more “natural” way of feeding, because the food is closer to the ground. It allows the horses to work for the treats. Hide sliced apples in the bucket too!
Sanitation
Sanitize bucket once a week.
Recipe
Treat Bucket
Horses should be given forage material daily, so in order not only to provide a Nutritional Enrichment, it is provided it in a way that it is also an occupational enrichment. Horses work to get the “treats” in the bucket, so they are kept busy.
Yield: 1
Equipment
- Bucket
- Drill
Materials
- 1 cup carrots, apples, celery
Instructions
- Drill, 5 cm holes in a 5 gallon bucket.
- Fill the bucket with hay, make sure that the hay sticks out the holes.
- Put the treats (carrots, apple, celery), in the holes of the bucket.
- Hang the bucket at 20-30 cm from the ground of the stall.
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