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Linda Jack

Horse feed

Legg inn av Linda Jack » 29 okt 2004 20:27:09

Dear Adrian,
In regard to your question of October 28 about feeding bread to
animals, horses were not the only recipients. I offer this from the
household accounts of Eleanor, countess of Leicester (1215?-1275) from
Margaret Wade Labarge's, A Baronial Household of the Thirteenth Century
(New York: Barnes & Noble, 1965) p. 75.

"One striking feature is the amount of bread given to the dogs, the
greyhounds of the countess and the hunting dogs of Henry and Guy de
Monfort and Henry of Almain, which were kept at Odiham. On May 5th
(1265) the account mentions that bread for the dogs for ten days took
three quarters of grain; but to feed the poor, over an eight-day
period, took only half a quarter, though with the addition of thirteen
gallons of beer."

On October 28 Adrian wrote: Anybody heard of horses being fed beans,
peas or bread, or is this horse
feathers?

Ronald Di Iorio

Re: Horse feed

Legg inn av Ronald Di Iorio » 30 okt 2004 16:01:01

Greetings

My father used to run a pack of beagles when I was
young and we often mixed stale/old bread in with the
table scraps that we fed them along with the regular
commercial feed.

Also, remember that according to the song, "Captain
Jinks of the Horse Marines" fed his horse on "corn
and beans".

Ronald Di Iorio

--- Linda Jack <linda_jack@earthlink.net> wrote:

Dear Adrian,
In regard to your question of October 28 about
feeding bread to
animals, horses were not the only recipients. I
offer this from the
household accounts of Eleanor, countess of Leicester
(1215?-1275) from
Margaret Wade Labarge's, A Baronial Household of the
Thirteenth Century
(New York: Barnes & Noble, 1965) p. 75.

"One striking feature is the amount of bread given
to the dogs, the
greyhounds of the countess and the hunting dogs of
Henry and Guy de
Monfort and Henry of Almain, which were kept at
Odiham. On May 5th
(1265) the account mentions that bread for the dogs
for ten days took
three quarters of grain; but to feed the poor, over
an eight-day
period, took only half a quarter, though with the
addition of thirteen
gallons of beer."

On October 28 Adrian wrote: Anybody heard of horses
being fed beans,
peas or bread, or is this horse
feathers?






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