We all love giving our horses some treats and seeing them eat happily. But can you feed a horse everything? Of course, no. Horses have a rather complicated digestion system which has bacteria and microbial of its own. Other than usual pasture grass, hay, and some grains, you can surely give your horse some treats. However, you should be careful. When choosing the treats, you should consider the health of your horse. Horses love eating almost any sweet thing you can offer them, they always ask more and more, but you should say no when it keeps asking even after you give enough amount of treats. Otherwise, the balance of the digestion system can be broken. How many treats you should give? Well, obviously “not much”. A healthy horse should eat small amounts of food in frequent time periods. Treats interrupt their eating regularity. Also pay attention to the horse’s chewing. Mostly the horse will chew whatever you give before swallowing it. Some horses tend to swallow small treats without chewing. We recommend you to slice the treats, especially bigger ones such as melons, into smaller pieces before feeding your horse. Here are the safe vegetables and fruits that you can give your horse as treats: Apple Raisins Banana Orange Pear (without the core) Plums (without the stone) Peach (without the stone) Cucumber Melon and Watermelon Carrot Strawberries Parsnip Grape Turnip Grapefruit Celery And here are the unsafe vegetables and fruits that you should avoid giving them to your horse: Potatoes Tomatoes Onions Avocado Cabbage Rhubarb Broccoli You should avoid these as well: Chocolate Dairy products Bread products Any kind of meat products You may wonder why horses cannot eat all these healthy looking food. As we mentioned above, the digestion system of a horse is complicated and delicate. They have a balanced system with the bacteria living in their body, but when you feed them with the food that can upset their digestion system, it may cause them more gas and pain. To keep them happy even after the treats, take what you give and how much you give into consideration. If you like to treat your horse, you can also check out our store for some very unique tack! Click HERE to shop our latest collection or check it out below!
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- 100% hand-painted high quality oil painting on artist grade canvas with high quality oil paints. - Additional 2 inch blank border around the edge. - No printing or digital imaging techniques are used. - No middle people, directly ship to the world. - Send you a digital copy via email for your approval before shipping. - It comes unframed and unstretched, shipped rolled inside a tube. - In stock items ship immediately, usually ships in 7 to 21 days. - 45-day Satisfaction Guaranteed and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed. - You can order any painting in any size as your requests. - Turn your photos into masterpieces. ------------------------------------------------- Information about original painting: The relationship between Napoleon Bonaparte and Jacques-Louis David was tumultuous, but we tend to think rather of the images the latter made of the former, which helped the cause of the general, First Consul then Emperor during fifteen years of power. David started this portrait following the failure of a first monumental portrait which was supposed to commemorate the treaty of Campoformio (18 October, 1797) the famously incomplete version of which remains housed which remains in the Musée du Louvre. It was ordered by the ambassador of Spain for his master, King Charles IV, who wanted to place a figurative representation of the new hero of Europe in his ‘room of the great captains’ in the Royal Palace in Madrid. The commission, which is not well documented, may have come before the represented events, at the end of 1799 or the beginning of 1800. The painting was completed between september 1800 and January 1801. It commemorates the victorious crossing of the St bernard in May 1800 pass by the army reserve under the direction of the First Consul Bonaparte, the first stage of his triumphal reconquest of Italy. With great audacity, Bonaparte shocked everyone in crossing the pass reputed to be unnavigable during spring. With this exploit he recalled the great captains of the past, whose names are inscribed on the rock at the horses feet: Hannibal, who crossed the alps with his elephants in 218 during the second Punic war, and Charlemagne in 773, in the struggle against the Lombards. If one believes the legend, Napoleon wished to be represented ‘calmly seated upon a spirited horse’, even though he actually crossed the pass on a mule. What is more, the First Consul did not even pose for the portrait; David worked in his atelier with models, for the outfit, according to tradition, he took inspiration from a uniform borrowed from the First Consul, which he had worn at the battle of Marengo. The first Spanish version of the composition, later seized by Joseph Bonaparte in Madrid and bequeathed by his descendants to the museum at Chateau Malmaison in 1949, was immediately followed by various copies, all destined for prominent buildings: the first for chateau de St Cloud, the consular residence, from where it was seized by Blücher in 1815, taken triumphantly to Berlin and given to the King of Prussia, before being placed in a museum in 1816 (it is now at Charlottenburg palace); the second was placed in the Hôtel des Invalides (December 1802), then given to the royal museums in 1816, from where it was sent to Versailles under Louis-Philippe; the next was destined for the Palace of the Italian Republic in Milan (Spring 1803), from where it was transported to Vienna in 1834 before being placed in a museum (Kunsthistorisches Museum, presented in the Belvedere). A final example, probably painted at the beginning of 1803, whose destination remains unknown, remained at David’s atelier and was given by his daughter to the nephews of the Emperor, then acquired by the French State from the Prince Napoleon in 1979 and placed at Versailles. The celebrations of the bicentenary of the epic story of Napoleon fifteen years ago confirmed the iconic status of David’s composition, the archetypal representation of the hero of the Revolution and probably the most famous image of Napoleon in the world. Frédéric Lacaille, 2013 (tr. AM)
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