Keeping Horses Eating

it immediately and find a suitable alternative or in the case of it being salt provide the horse with a salt lick and dont add salt to its feed. If you are adding salt to your horses feed you can also just try removing the salt as salt is one ingredient that will turn a horse off its feed very quickly.
   Oversupplementing Carefully adjust your horses diet so that his requirements are being met without being exceeded. Pay extra attention to the amount of sodium in your horses diet as oversupplying sodium a component of salt will make a horses feed very unpalatable.
   Medications Dont put medication in a fussy horses feed. If you need to administer medication try mixing it up with apple sauce in a large syringe or clean worm paste tube and administering it directly into your horses mouth after he has eaten their feed. Dont do it before you feed as this will also stop them from eating in many cases. If you suspect a vitamin B1 deficiency is causing the loss of appetite you should administer the vitamin B1 in this way until your horses appetite has returned.
Step 3 Simplify the diet.
If your horse has stopped eating his normal ration for a period of time even after you remove or treat the cause of loss of appetite it is likely that it will take some time for his appetite to return to normal. During this period of time feed as simple a diet as possible starting with access to as much good quality hay or pasture the horse wants to eat. Then gradually add ingredients one at a time starting with the ones your horse likes the most. Remember to leave at least two days between adding new ingredients.
With the exception of providing vitamin B1 where a B1 deficiency is suspected as the cause of loss of appetite remove all supplements from the diet until the horse has a healthy appetite again. When you do reintroduce supplements do so one at a time so you know if your horse doesnt like the taste of one.
Step 4 Make their feed taste good.
If removing or treating the cause of your horses loss of appetite and simplifying the diet hasnt worked to return appetite to normal you could try adding ingredients that generally smell and taste good to a horse to help get them eating normally again. A