Homemade gifts for riders

Homemade gifts have experienced a real boom in recent years. The homemade trend is not only sustainable, but also encourages creativity. In addition, the effort and time spent on your homemade project is a lovely way of showing how much you care about the person you want to give a gift to. Especially for riders, there are so many beautiful homemade gift ideas – whether it’s stable equipment, something home-baked or decorated riding accessories.

Colourful unicorn-shaped biscuits

We’ll show you the most beautiful homemade/DIY ideas for riders and horse enthusiasts:

Homemade Mash recipe

Most horses love mash! The main ingredients linseed, wheat bran and oatmeal promote digestion and are great energy suppliers. This makes mash the perfect supplementary feed after strenuous training sessions, competitions and stressful situations, but also for convalescence after an illness, operation or for older horses that tend to lose weight. The great thing about mash is that you can easily prepare it yourself and spice it up with toppings of your choice.

Stirred mash

This makes mash an ideal gift for horse owners. It is especially practical to gift your own mixture in a muesli bowl with a lid, which can also be reused for future feeding.

For the basic mixture you will need:

  • 70g linseed
  • 250g wheat bran
  • 150g coarsely ground oats
  • 1 tsp salt

Here’s how:

Mix the ingredients in the bowl. To make the mash even tastier, you can add various toppings of your choice, e.g. Original Landmühle Apple Crisps, Banana Chips or Rose Hips. Herb mixtures can also be added, e.g. the Original Landmühle Autumn & Winter Herbs or, for horses with coughs, Airway Herbs.

Original Landmühle Rose Hips
With the Original Landmühle Rose Hips you can give your homemade mash an extra special flavour.

Feeding recommendation:

The mash is mixed with twice the amount of warm water. Allow the mash to soak for about 20 minutes before feeding and make sure that it is not too hot. Depending on the horse’s physical condition, the mash can be fed about 2-3 times a week. A ration is calculated from approx. 80g per 100kg body weight.

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    Carrot Chips

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Colourful unicorn-shaped biscuits

Baking your own horse biscuits

There’s nothing like homemade biscuits! And with matching cutters in the shape of a horse or unicorn, they make sweet treats for your yard community. They’re also perfect as a contribution to the buffet at the yard Christmas party, for example, or as a sweet treat for a unicorn or pony-themed children’s birthday party. So that everyone can enjoy them, we will show you a vegan biscuit recipe with guaranteed success:

For approx. 40 biscuits you’ll need:

  • 300g plain flour
  • 200g margarine
  • 100g icing sugar
  • 1-2 tsp vanilla extract
  • Pinch of salt

Here’s how:

Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl, then add the cold margarine in cubes and knead until a dough is formed. Wrap the dough in cling film and place it in the fridge for about 1 hour.

Roll out the dough on a floured surface to approx. 1/2 cm and cut out the biscuits using a biscuit cutter (e.g. unicorn cutter). Bake in a preheated oven at approx. 180°C for approx. 10 minutes.

When the biscuits have completely cooled down, you can start decorating them. The best icing to use for this is royal icing, which can be made with 1 egg white, 250g icing sugar and a little cold water, if required. If you prefer a vegan version for the icing, you can use the same amount of icing sugar and about 30g of chickpea water. To make colourful biscuits, simply use food colouring and let your imagination run wild when decorating.

The icing should be allowed to dry for at least 24 hours before placing them in decorative cellophane bags.

Horse-shaped cutters for baking

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Homemade horse treats

Anyone can make treats that out of a bag! If you have a little more time and want to prepare something special as a gift, you can easily make healthy horse treats yourself.

We present two simple treat recipes that require only a few ingredients and are very easy to make:

Rosehips

Oat and Rosehip Angel’s Eyes

You will need:

Here’s how:

Mix the oat bran and rosehip powder in a bowl and add the water until you have a smooth dough that you can shape easily. Add more water or dry ingredients as needed. Form small balls by hand and place them on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Finally, press a dried rosehip onto each ball. Bake the treats for about 20-25 minutes at 175°C in a preheated oven, making sure that they don’t get too dark.

Banana Bars

You will need:

  • 4 bananas
  • 300g oat flakes

Here’s how:

Mash the bananas with a fork until you get a mushy consistency. Add the oat flakes and knead everything into a firm dough. Roll out the dough on a smooth surface to a thickness of about 1cm and cut with a knife into small bars. Bake them in a preheated oven at 180°C for about 20-30 minutes.

Bananas
Let the horse treats dry thoroughly!

The following applies to all home-baked horse treats: please do not feed them directly after baking! Let the horse treats cool down well after baking and leave them in a dry place (not immediately in a storage container) for another 1-2 days.

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Does your horse prefer carrots?

Check out our treat guide. We have another healthy treat recipe with oats and carrots. There is also a general overview on the subject of treats.

Design your own saddle pad!

Very creative minds can let off steam by designing a saddle pad! And such a personally designed unique piece is also a wonderful gift idea for all riders – especially for those who can never have enough saddle pads hanging in the tack room.

Saddle pad decorated with home-made pearl necklace
Personalised and sustainable: To create your self-made project, you can also use a discarded saddle pad and give it a new shine with just a few simple items!

You need for this:

Depending on your taste:

  • Pictures to sew or iron on
  • Rhinestones
  • Textile dye
  • Beads
  • Sequins
  • Cords
  • Fabric scraps
  • Colourful buttons
  • Embroidery thread
  • Lace applications
  • and much more

Let your creativity run wild. For example, you could apply cool splashes of colour in the style of action painting using textile paint or use sequins to embroider the horse’s name. If you want to be a little more subtle, you can simply sew on a beautiful cord in a contrasting colour along the hem or add elegant lace applications. There are so many options. Craft shops or haberdasheries are good sources of inspiration. Of course, you should make sure that the areas where the saddle sits are left free. Also make sure that you apply the embellishments in such a way that they do not restrict the movements of either the horse or the rider or cause friction or chafing.

Upcycling tip!

An old, discarded saddle pad is perfect for giving it a new lease of life with your own personalised embellishments. It doesn’t have to be a new style to start your craft project! In addition, if you buy a new saddle pad, the manufacturer’s warranty will expire as soon as the saddle pad has been modified in any way.

Create and gift your own activity logs

We think: Nibble logs should experience a revival for horses! In principle, horses in the wild use everything that a tree has to offer: After all, they contain important minerals and trace elements and, depending on the tree species, also other useful substances, such as betulin in birch bark, which has anti-inflammatory properties.

But that’s not all: Nibble logs are an ideal pastime for horses. In particular, greedy horses enjoy a piece of wood as a valuable form of entertainment for several hours at a time.

Moreover, they are also a nice gift idea for horse owners.

Horse nibbles on wood

They are easy to make yourself at little cost. We show you two popular variations:

Hanging logs with hidden treats

Hanging logs with hidden treats

You will need:

  • Several log pieces or a strong branch (minimum thickness 10 cm) in different lengths of 8-20 cm.
  • Thick rope (Ø approx. 1 cm)
  • A drill with thick drill bit (hole saw attachment)
  • Treats in a round shape

Here’s how:

  1. First drill a hole in the middle of each log. These will later be the holes for threading through the rope.
  2. Then drill several small holes in the log to hide treats. First match the thickness of your drill bit with the treats you want to put in and don’t drill too deep so that the treats still stick out a little.
  3. Take the rope and tie a big knot at the end of the rope. Then thread through the different logs and secure the individual logs with a distance of 5-10 cm between them using knots. Finally, the last log is also secured with a knot.
  4. Now you can fill the hanging logs with treats and give it as a gift.

The logs can be filled again and again. If you drill larger holes you can also fill them with fresh carrots, for example. The logs can be hung up in the stall or in the paddock.

The choice is yours

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Breaded nibble logs

You will need:

  • 1 log (Ø approx. 10 cm, approx. 30 cm long)
  • Drilling machine with thick drill bit (Ø approx. 1 cm)
  • Rope (Ø approx. 0.6 cm)
  • Psyllium seed husks
  • Water
  • If you like: some honey
  • For the „breadcrumb“ coating, horse muesli or dried fruit/vegetable chips as desired

Here’s how:

  1. Drill a hole through the middle of the log and thread the rope through it, securing the end of the rope with a tight knot.
  2. Mix a thick adhesive made of psyllium husks and water. If you like, you can add 1-2 teaspoons of honey.
  3. Spread the „breadcrumbs“ on a baking tray or in a shallow pan.
  4. Now coat the piece of wood generously with the psyllium adhesive and roll the log in the breadcrumbs.
  5. Let the breaded log dry at least overnight.
Breaded nibble logs

All you need for your homemade project

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Please note!

Not all types of wood are suitable for nibbling and playing with. Some types of wood are even poisonous for our four-legged friends – these include maple, acacia, ruby, walnut and magnolia. Coniferous woods in general are also not recommended, as they have a high lignin content, which is difficult for horses to digest and in larger quantities can lead to colic in the worst case. The most suitable wood for your DIY nibble logs is wood from fruit trees or hazel, birch and beech logs. Also make sure that the logs are intact and do not contain dangerous splinters. The logs should not be too old and should have been well stored beforehand so that you can rule out the possibility of mould spores developing.

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