Here is a little Horse Trivia just for fun …
Did you know that a horse’s teeth up until the age of 9 years could accurately determine its age? Then the horse becomes ‘smooth mouthed’ and it is a bit harder to determine. A horse gets all its teeth by five years old and after that they just get longer.
Here are a few horse records –
- The tallest horse was a Shire at 21.2 hands. His name was ‘Samson’ and was born in England in 1846.
- The oldest horse was an English barge horse named ‘Old Billy’ and lived to the ripe age of 62 years, from 1760 to 1822.
- A horse named ‘Huaso’ who jumped 8 feet, 1 and ¼ inches on February 5, 1949 in Chile made the highest jump on record.
- The record for the longest jump over water is 27 feet, 6 3/4 inches, by ‘Something’, ridden by Andre Ferreira in South Africa on April 25, 1975.
A mule is a cross between a male donkey and a female horse. Mules are usually sterile.
Horses can only breathe through their noses, not from their mouths.
Most foals are born late at night when the herd is most likely at rest.
Horses cannot vomit.
Horses have the ability to lock the muscles in their legs so they can sleep while standing up.
The hoof of a horse, like human fingernails, grows continually and must be trimmed.
Horses produce around 10 gallons of saliva each day and drink approximately ten gallons of water. What goes in; must come out.
Appaloosas come in many patterns and are often born spotless. The spots develop over the first year of life.
Horses are not colorblind but have a limited range of color vision, seeing mostly the warm colors of brown, yellow and green.
Camargue horses are completely white as adults. Their foals are pure black when born.
Appaloosas come in many patterns and are often born spotless. The spots develop over the first year of life.
Horses need about an ounce of salt per day and most will voluntarily consume between one and two ounces from salt blocks.
Draught Horses are the world’s strongest animals apart from elephants.
These are just a few little tidbits that I was able to gather. Do you have more to add?
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