Any cool horse facts!?

Question

ANY THAT ARE UN ORDINARY!? THANKS IN ADVANCED!

Answer 1

Horses can't throw up!!! haha freakin crazy, right?

Answer 2

horses have the biggest eyes of any land mammal! dwayne h you have got alot of info of the internet!

Answer 3

horses have four different gaits =]

Answer 4

-One of the first horses was called a Hyracotherium. It lived about 50 million years ago and was as tall as a fox. It had toes! This horse changed over millions of years to become a modern horse.

-Camargue horses are completely white as adults. Their babies are pure black when they are born.

-There is a breed of horse from Russia called Akhal-Teke. It can go for days without food or water.

-You measure a horse's height in hands. Each hand equals four inches. If you say a horse is 16.2 hands high, the 2 stands for 2 fingers.

-You can tell how old a horse is by how many teeth it has. A horse gets all of its teeth by the time it is five years old. After that, they just get longer.

  

-A female horse is called a mare. In the wild it is the mare that decides when the herd moves on to another spot to find food.

-A male horse is called a stallion. Usually only one stallion will stay with a herd.

-Any marking on a horse's forehead is called a star, even if it is not shaped like a star.

-Mustangs are one of the few breeds of horses that live wild in North America. They are related to the horses that the Spanish explorers brought to North America 400 years ago.

      

-Horses can communicate how they are feeling by their facial expressions. They use their ears, nostrils, and eyes to show their moods. Beware of a horse that has flared nostrils and their ears back. That means it might attack!



-A horse can move in four ways: walk, trot, canter, and gallop. A gallop is the fastest gait.

-A horse is a member of the "equus" family. This word comes from ancient Greece and means quickness.

-"Old Billy," was the oldest recorded horse who lived to be 62 years.

-Horses spend more energy lying down.

-10 Pounds is the weight of a horse’s heart.

There you go, those are some interesting and cool facts I found from a few sites. Some are really interesting to know!

Answer 5

The horse starts as a foal (male) or filly (female).  During the first 12 months the foal/filly  has long legs compared to its body.  After two months the foal/filly sheds its milk hairs.  Two months later it would stop drinking milk from its dam (mother).  After it has passed drinking milk from it's dam, it is considered a horse.

A 12 month becomes a Yearling on January 1.  At 12 months the baby horse is still uncoordinated in movements,  and quite leggy, but their frame is beginning to fill out.  This is an ongoing process until maturity, when it's hind quarters, or croup, are in line with it's withers, the part right below the neck.  The last parts of growth are the epiphyses or the growth plates on the very long bones of the legs.  Until these are closed, the horse isn't able to keep working because they are too weak.  This happens particularly when they are under weight, without the risk of the legs being damaged.  The epiphysis is located at the end of the cannon bone, over the fetlock joint, an\ usually is closed in the middle of nine and twelve months.  

    After this it goes on to Middle years.  These are when it is 5-10 years old.  By then the horse is fully formed.  After this stage it goes on to Late years when the joints might become puffy as the circulation might become lass effective.  Then the effects of work will start to show.  This is the horse life cycle.                        

The  foal/filly is born with no teeth.  As it gets older, the horse grows teeth.  By the time the foal/filly is six to nine months, the young horse has all of it's milk teeth.  At five to six years of age, the horse replaces it's milk teeth with it's  permanent teeth.  You can tell how old a horse is by it's teeth.  When it becomes older it becomes even easier to tell because of the "Galvayne Groove" on the corner of the incisor of the upper jaw.

The Arabian horse was originally found in a desert-like environment.  This flat-kneed, hot-blooded mammal stands between 14.2 and 15 horse hands tall.  This animal has a beautiful mane of fine silky hair,  as is the tail.  The hooves are hard and well formed, also the hooves are well protected from diseases. This beautiful horse is a solid color.  The Arabian horse has rounded ribs, that are short and strong, and a slightly concave back.  The Arabian horse also has one less vertebrae than other horses which gives them a deep chest cavity and allows for great endurance.  The Arabian horse's shoulders slightly slope more down than some other breeds.  This horse is usually bred in the Arabian Peninsula (Middle East).  The Arabian horse has been an influence to many different breeds of horses, although it does not have any influences itself.  The Arabian horse is an amazing creature.      

Don horses have a been around since the eighteenth century.  They stand at about 15.3 horse hands.  They might seem weak, but are really strong. This warm blooded animal has a chestnut brown coat and is from Northern Eurasia, or Russia Federation.  The Don horse is able to live in frozen areas.  This fabulous creature has short and straight shoulders, thus making their strides shorter.  This animal has fairly short hair.  The horse have a very interesting body structure.

The Don horse has four influences.  An influence is a trait that comes from another breed of horse.  The breeds that influence the Don horse are the Karabakh, Akhal-Teke, Thoroughbred, and the Arabian.  The Karabakh  gives the Don improvement on speed, action, and ability to move gracefully.  The Akhal-Teke contributes overall ability, endurance, and ability to run miles and miles without becoming too tired.  The Thoroughbred passes on performance, conformation, and size.  The Arabian gives more and better quality, physically sturdy or healthy, and great temperament.  These horses make the Don horse a great one.

  The Hequ is located in Qinghai Province of China.  If you are wondering, Hequ means "river zig".  The reason it means river zig is the breed is located near the yellow river, which makes a huge zig zag.  It is used for a draft animal and a racing and riding horse.  They're usually black, brown, or gray.  The temperature is low there.  In the summer, it becomes moist and humid.

    There are three different kinds of Hequ horses.  One is the Jiaode type, which is founded in the southern part of Gansu province.  These horses do not have strong legs.  The Jiaode usually are gray.  The Suoke is from western Sichuan province.  Those horses have large heads and ears, with a short loin.  The Suoke raises it tail very high.  The last one is the Kesheng which is from Kesheng Mongolian Autonomous Region.

The Russian Heavy Draft is a strong sturdy horse.  This horse is originally from Russia.  This horse is easy to train and easy to feed.  This breed comes from other horses such as: The Mountain Ardennes breeds, also from the Orlov Trotter.  As the breed moved on the breed arrived in Ukraine.  The Breeding began in the 1860s.  This horse is not very large, but it very muscled.  As you can see it is a very popular horse in Russia.  

The Thoroughbred horse is a warm blooded horse. This animal is very popular in the United Kingdom, England.  This breed evolved in England in the 17 and 18 hundreds.  The Thoroughbred lives in cool temperatures.  This hot blooded animal's hair is all solid colors.  These great creatures are mostly used for horse racing.  These are magnificent creatures.

The Welsh pony is a prehistoric pony.  This warm-blooded mammal stands at 13.2 horse hands.  This pony has an all-solid color for it's coat.  The Welsh pony usually lives on mountains or moors.  It is bred in Wales, United Kingdom.  The Welsh pony has great depth in it's stomach area.  Sometimes this depth is called the " Welsh Breadbasket".  Also, this pony has noticeably longer proportions than the Welsh Mountain Pony.

                The Welsh pony's influences are the Arabian horse, the Barb horse, and the Thoroughbred horse.  The Arabian horse gives the Welsh pony  quality.  The Barb horse gives the Welsh power. The Thoroughbred gives the Welsh speed and courage.  The Welsh pony is a wonderful breed.

Chestnut: Golden brown coat with lighter or darker tail than mane.

Flea-Bitten: Grey coat, with small dark specks more appear in age.

Gray: White coat with black skin the coat will lighten with age.  

Skewbald: Big patches of white on many other colors except black.  

Brown: Mixture of black and brown on limbs, tail and mane.

Bay: Dark golden color also a Red -Brownish color with black tail, mane and limbs.

Black: Black coat mane, tail and limbs.  

PHYSICAL FACTS

There are more than 250 breeds of horses and three general sizes--heavy, light, and pony. Although the heaviest breed is England's sturdy Shire, the heaviest horse in history was a Belgian draft stallion, Brooklyn Supreme (1928-1948), which weighed 3,200 lb. and stood 6 ft. 6 in., or 19 1/2 hands (one hand equals 4 in.). Other popular heavy horses are the Percheron, Clydesdale, and Suffolk.

The smallest breed of horse is the Falabella of Argentina. It stands from 12 to 40 in. and weighs less than 150 lb. The Shetland pony, said to date back to the Ice Age, is a favorite mount for children.

Among the spirited, high-strung light horses, the aristocrats are the magnificent Arabians, the oldest purebreds of all since 800 A.D. The Thoroughbred, a comparatively new breed, is descended from Arabian stallions. Racehorses are usually Thoroughbreds or quarter horses. The first Thoroughbred imported to the U.S. from England, in 1730, was Bulle Rock.

Lipizzaners, the famous dancing horses of Vienna's Spanish Riding School, are also light horses, as are the Tennessee walking horse, the Morgan, the American trotting horse, the Appaloosa, and the beautiful golden saddlebred, often referred to as a palomino.

The vegetarian horse has an acute sense of smell and direction, good hearing, and sensitive skin, which enables it to respond to almost imperceptible tactile commands. On the average, a horse lives 20 years, but many survive to 30 or 40, and Monty, an Australian draft horse, was 52 when he died in 1970.

Other than racers, not many horses can run faster than 36 mph. In 1945 one racehorse, Big Racket, set a quarter-mile record in 20 4/5 seconds, which meant he was going 43.3 mph. Riderless, his speed would have been 55.4 mph. The Tennessee walking horse is able to step along at a steady 6 to 8 mph from dawn to dusk.

large odd-toed ungulate mammal, one of ten living species of the family Equidae.

For centuries horses have been one of the most economically important domesticated animals, especially relied upon for farmwork and for transportation. Their importance declined following the introduction of mechanization. The history of the horse is prominent in religion, mythology, art, transportation, agriculture, and warfare.

Most horses perform work such as carrying humans or are harnessed to pull objects such as carts or plows. Hundreds of distinct horse breeds have been developed, allowing horses to be specialized for certain tasks; lighter horses for racing or riding, heavier horses for farming and other tasks requiring pulling power. Some horses, such as the miniature horse, can be kept as pets. In some societies, horses are a source of food, both meat and milk; in others it is taboo to consume these products. In industrialized countries, horses are predominantly kept for leisure and sporting pursuits, while in other parts of the world they are still used as working animals.

Horses and humans have lived and worked together for thousands of years and an extensive specialized vocabulary has arisen to describe virtually every horse behavioral and anatomical characteristic with a high degree of prec

Answer 6

Chestnuts are unique to each horse; like human finger prints.

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