that's where the grass is. Where else are they supposed to eat from? Stabled horses will eat from a bucket if you hold it up.
Horses are used to eating on the ground. If they see it laying on the ground they will eat it.
yes. They eat hay that is piled on the ground.
Yes.
Horses paw at the ground when they eat to search for more food, mimic natural grazing behavior, and potentially regulate their digestion.
Horses can eat cinnamon sticks, but it is usually better to give ground cinnamon to horses as there is less potential risk for the horse choking.
Bugs that are in the ground when they eat the grass.
Yes horses can and should eat off the ground. It's the most natural way for them to eat. However they can ingest parasites and sand this way along with wasting feed. So it's recommended to place the feed in a feed tub or on a rubber stall mat.
Yes its like eating grass from the ground.
Well humans don't eat grass because it just isn't on the food pyramid or anything plus cows and horses eat grass. Plus grass is in the ground and the ground is not clean.
Horses that lived during the ice age likely at the same things they eat now. That would be grasses, grains, and fruit found near the ground.
Only in the sense that a grazing horse walks around to eat grass from the ground. Horses use their lips, nose, tongue and teeth to sort, select and ingest their food.
all horses can eat hay/grass. all horses can eat hay/grass.