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September 28, 2007

Mules love grapes.

Barb said...: That's cool. I would have never tried grapes. Nickie loved cabbage and pumpkin.; September 29, 2007 at 9:04 AM
Mike said...: And pigs like plums, too!

I went by the local gro. store that morning and the produce mgr.--such a lovely woman-- gave me two big boxes of "spoiled" fruit. Most of it was only bad in a cosmetic way and I found myself slicing me off a piece of apple or whatever when I was cutting it up for the animals.

She gave me an over-ripe cantaloupe and the mules really loved that.

The thing they loved the most, and I never got a photo of the animals eating it, was the ears of corn. Oh gosh, they went nuts and did the juice ever fly! I had to get my hanky out several times to wipe the juice off of the camera and myself! They liked the husks, but usually...somehow...got the corn out of the husks first, THEN ate them.

I was too busy feeding them to take many photos; it was great fun!

I did have a slice of cantaloupe and my blood sugar went thru the roof! -sigh-

Thanks for posting!; September 29, 2007 at 10:19 AM
Barb said...: Yeah, they do have fun with corn. Apples and corn would both have Nic drooling and foaming from all the juices.

We'd even cut the sweetcorn talks and chuck them into the pasture for the horses and cows. They'd eat the whole thing, barely a shred of leaf left when they were through.; September 29, 2007 at 5:38 PM