Goats have the same problem: goats can eat grassall day, but if you let them near the oat or corn bin, they will keep
eating until they die. Seriously: I have goats. Goats near oats are
about like humans near potato chips
My grandfather had horses - I remember him having some trouble with a mare getting into the grain shed. She ate till all the oats were *gone.* There was a LOT in there. She got *very* sick. (very sick actually wouldn't cover it - she darn near died) I remember this clearly because I used to think she was "talking" to me. (She would put her head through the fence on my shoulder and nuzzle my ear.) That day was the one day I got to go in her pen and pet her without the fence in the way. (Generally we were *not* allowed in the horses pens because they were race horses. Racehorses can be "unpredictable" - because honestly - their training drives them insane....) I was ecstatic and horrified at the same time. I *finally* got to pet her.. but she was so so sick it was heartbreaking.
Thank you for that memory. I had forgotten it..
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