Can I Have Some Random Horse Facts?

Question

[boy i havent been in the horse section in a while. =(]

Can i have some random horse facts? Sorry for the boring question but it seems fun to read random horse facts because I may learn something I didnt know before. =D

thanks you guys.

Answer 1

http://www.angelfire.com/ks2/Bastat/hors...

This website has a bunch of facts ......... hope i helped !

Answer 2

Horses like classical music.

The oldest horse was named Old Billy. He was a cross breed, he was born in 1760 and he lived to be 62.

The World's Largest Horse was a Shire gelding named Samson, bred by Thomas Cleaver of Toddington Mills, England. Foaled in 1846, this horse measured 21.2 1/2 hand high in 1850, and weighed 3,360 pounds

A full grown horse that weighs about 1,000 pounds contains approximately 13.2 gallons of blood.

Horses have about 175 bones in their body.

A horse's hoof grows at a rate of about 1 cm per month.

A horse's leg joints are not fully fused (grown) until around the age of 3 1/2.

Most horse breeds have 18 ribs.

The Arabian has 17 ribs.

Most horses have 6 lumbar bones.

he Arabian has 5 lumbar bones.

Most horses have 18 tail vertabrea.

The Arabian has 16 tail vertabrea.

Horses can see in two directions at once.

Horses can see everywhere, except directly in front or behind them.

Horses make 8 basic sounds- snort, squeal, greeting nicker, courtship nicker, maternal nicker, neigh, roar, blow.

It is almost impossible for a horse to vomit-- if they do, their stomachs usually rupture soon after.

The smallest breeds are the Falabellas of Argentina. The tallest breed is the Shire,

from England

Answer 3

Condylarth came before the Eohippus (Hyracotherium) in the evolutionary time line(75mil years ago!). It was the size of a small to medium sized dog and had toes with pads on their feet.

The mustang is NOT a wild horse but a horse that escaped/was let go by the Spanish explorers and became feral.

The ONLY WILD horse is the Przewalski's Horse. This horse unlike the Mustang have never been domesticated or tamed. It is also endangered too and only lives in zoos and certain excluded places of the world.

ONE Hand = 4 Inches.

Other gaits besides the walk, trot, canter and gallop the pace, rack, tolt, fox trot, running walk and the Paso gaits those are the only ones I can remember now...

Agrees that a lot of these are not right

First poster ap: The funny laws part is hilarious!

Answer 4

They have no physical mechanism for regurgitation, so.... what goes in the mouth is coming out the other end, if at all! Must be careful about what you leave lying around.

Answer 5

A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year.

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.

Horses and ponies feel safer when they are in a herd.

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 hoof is like a fingernail. It is always growing and needs to be clipped so that it won't be uncomfortable for the horse.

A farrier is a person who makes horse shoes and fits them on your horse. They also clip hooves to keep them from getting overgrown.

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

Answer 6

Horses can sense the way you feel

They can't vomit

They are great therapy

Studs can be a bit...well you know studish

Only male horses get k9's

horses are right handed and left handed like humans

If you go a different way than the horse is used to with a barrel pattern it will look completely different to them.

Edit-

Farriers DO shoe I WATCHED it in REAL LIFE and they trim they have to.

Reining horses need very slick shoes on their back hooves or else the can tear up their legs.

Answer 7

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.

Wrong, Spanish Colonials are the horses the Conquistadors rode into the Americas on. There is ABSOLUTELY 100% NO BLM in a Spanish Colonial.

Horses can move in more then just 4 gaits too BTW...that's why there are multi-gated horses...and a Farrier does NOT shoe...They only trim.

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Alot of these facts aren't right...

Answer 8

ummm

they cant breath through their mouths

Today i actually found out that horses are not left or right brained like people. It is like all one thing and if they see you with only their left eye they will not reconize that they just saw you if they look at you with only their right eye.

Answer 9

The mental capacity of a horse is approximately that of a six year old human.

Horses will become more attached to one person over another, no matter if some one else feeds them

Horses will prefer men over men and vise versa.

Horses will prefer to stick to like colors, sorrels will gather with sorrels, black with blacks, so on. It is a herd instinct. The same principle of wild zebra's why they are all the same color, it is harder for a predator to pick out just one.

The oldest registered breed is the Arab

All registered horses can be traced to one horse of that breed, except the Arab.

The Arab can be traced to four original horses.

All registered breeds can be traced to the Arab.

There are some obscure facts for you to use on a trivia game.

Proud owner of a Paint and a Quarter Horse.

Answer 10

1. Horses like grapes and pears

2. Horses are ticklish in their armpits! (their girth area)

3. Horses' ears can swivil almost 360 degrees

4. A horse can see all around itself except directly in front of it and behind it

5. Valting is like gymnastics on horseback

6. Horses that do reining must ahve boots on their front legs or else when they stop their back legs might hit and damge their front ones

7. Horses don't like to be looked in the eye, if you do they feel likr you are a preditor