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Horse feed

Legg inn av Gjest » 28 okt 2004 18:47:56

Anybody heard of horses being fed beans, peas or bread, or is this horse
feathers?

Adrian

From Calendar of Patent Rolls
Ed 3 Vol 14 p 97.
1368. March 20. Westminster.
Appointment, until Michaelmas, of the king's yeoman, William de Mordon, to
lodge the king's horses and to buy hay, oats, beans, peas, bread and litter for
them. (French.) By K.

From the web site of Prof. Bob Boynton of the University of Iowa.

James C. Woodard

Re: Horse feed

Legg inn av James C. Woodard » 28 okt 2004 18:47:57

ADRIANCHANNING@aol.com wrote in news:148.373e19f5.2eb26094@aol.com:

Anybody heard of horses being fed beans, peas or bread, or is this
horse feathers?

Adrian

From Calendar of Patent Rolls
Ed 3 Vol 14 p 97.
1368. March 20. Westminster.
Appointment, until Michaelmas, of the king's yeoman, William de
Mordon, to lodge the king's horses and to buy hay, oats, beans,
peas,
bread and litter for them. (French.) By K.

From the web site of Prof. Bob Boynton of the University of Iowa.



Beans and peas are both legumes and could be fed to horses either
whole plant or seeds, though I have never heard of it. Bread, being
made primarily from wheat flour, would be eaten by the horses and may
have been cheap if stale.



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James C. Woodard
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Gjest

Re: Horse feed

Legg inn av Gjest » 28 okt 2004 20:01:40

In a message dated 10/28/2004 10:48:35 AM Eastern Standard Time,
ADRIANCHANNING@aol.com writes:

Anybody heard of horses being fed beans, peas or bread, or is this horse
feathers?

Adrian

From Calendar of Patent Rolls
Ed 3 Vol 14 p 97.
1368. March 20. Westminster.
Appointment, until Michaelmas, of the king's yeoman, William de Mordon, to
lodge the king's horses and to buy hay, oats, beans, peas, bread and litter
for
them. (French.) By K.

From the web site of Prof. Bob Boynton of the University of Iowa.





"I'm Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines,
I feed my horse on corn and Beans.
And court young ladies in their teens,
Though a Captain in the army"

Gilbert and Sullivan I believe.

I seem to recall that these were all fed to horses at one time or another.
I know fava beans are often called horse beans, so I assume that they were
used as horse feed.

Gordon Hale
Grand Prairie, Texas

Bronwen Edwards

Re: Horse feed

Legg inn av Bronwen Edwards » 29 okt 2004 09:21:25

ADRIANCHANNING@aol.com wrote in message news:<148.373e19f5.2eb26094@aol.com>...
Anybody heard of horses being fed beans, peas or bread, or is this horse
feathers?

Adrian

From Calendar of Patent Rolls
Ed 3 Vol 14 p 97.
1368. March 20. Westminster.
Appointment, until Michaelmas, of the king's yeoman, William de Mordon, to
lodge the king's horses and to buy hay, oats, beans, peas, bread and litter for
them. (French.) By K.

From the web site of Prof. Bob Boynton of the University of Iowa.

In the 14th century the only "beans" available in Britain would have
been fava beans from the Middle East; all other beans were cultivated
only in the Americas and were unknown in Europe until after 1492. It
is possible that the word "bean" actually denoted something else,
perhaps lentils or some similar thing. Confusion has sometimes arisen
over the use of the term "corn" in Europe prior to 1492; the word,
however, referred to the kernel of any grain. Of course, one of my
horses enjoyed potato chips with 7-Up. Best, Bronwen

Gjest

Re: Horse feed

Legg inn av Gjest » 29 okt 2004 15:55:54

Thanks for all the replies to this question.

The Oxford Dictionary of Etymology gives bean as '(seed of) leguminous plants
Faba (Old English) and Phaseolus (xvi century). So, as Bronwen states, in
1368 it would be the Faba bean — is this the same as what we (in the UK) call
broad beans?

Considering the rubbish that are put in todays commercial feed (what we call
pony nuts), I suppose it is not that suprising to use beans, peas and bread as
horse feed, especally as the 14c was renound for its lack of food (together
with 100 years war, black death and mini ice age)

Adrian

Ajo Wissink

Re: Horse feed

Legg inn av Ajo Wissink » 06 nov 2004 02:43:48

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:55:54 +0000 (UTC), ADRIANCHANNING@aol.com
wrote:

So, as Bronwen states, in
1368 it would be the Faba bean — is this the same as what we (in the UK) call
broad beans?

Yes

--
Ajo Wissink

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