Cool Horse Facts!?!?!?!?!?

Question

MAKE THEM UNIQUE AND ADVANCED!

Answer 1

Molly The Survivor..Molly is a 15 year old Appaloosa pony who survived Hurricane Katrina...She received a prosthetic leg, which gave her a whole new life..She's happy, healthy & love children.  You have to read the story before judging.

Link - http://www.wildhorserescue.org/molly.htm

                Molly The Survivor

Answer 2

There are 500 MILES of capillaries and veins in a single hoof

Answer 3

my horse like turkey sandwitches and a cane of sprite wen we go out on a trail

horses sleep standing up

and to ppl that say its unhealthy for a hor a horse to eat that, he was supposed to die like 5 yrs ago from cancer so i let him live a little

and to the person under me u so copy and pasted that

Answer 4

Horses herd up with like colors. Blacks with blacks, sorrels with sorrels etc. This is a protections instinct it makes it harder for a predator to single one out.

Cutting horses will pic a color of calf they like, and you never know till you start working cattle. Not that they wont work other colors they just prefer one over the others.

Dark hooves are stronger than white hooves.

My horse will not eat an apple unless I have just cut it into a slice for her, but she will go to town on a whole pear.

Edit- Bill you have not been around too many farriers have you? Thats one of the first things they will tell about hooves. Or you have never tried to trim hooves yourself. Not being mean but this is a fact. Not saying white hooves are not strong just softer than black hooves.

Edit- By the way who is the troll here? Show yer self.

Answer 5

I totally agree with Redial about the whole bucking bronkoing thing, there WILL always be someone who thinks they can cure it!!

Urr, lets see...

*On average, a horse produces about 50 pounds of manure per day.

*Daniel radcliff is playing a stable boy who has an extraudenry relationship with his horse :S strange but true

*All racehorses in the U.S. celebrate their birthday on January 1st.

*A full grown horse's intestines are approximately 89 feet long.

those are some funny things, LoL.

Not really unique or advanced but hey!

Answer 6

The Camargue horse does dine on fish in it's native habitat!

Answer 7

advanced lol

Horses (especially 18 year old Tb mares) enjoy the odd affair with a fence post

no matter how much money you make, you'll always be poor if you own horses

canvas rugs, make great picnic blankets

you can do some really cool art with horse shoes

a horse skull on a shelf painted in glow in the dark paint, si the scariest thing in the world at 3 am

willy wag tails (native aussie bird) have a natural affinity with horses and use their fur for nests

when a horse is playing up, it magically grows to 3 hands higher

no matter how much training a horse has had, if it wants to play up it's Gonna play up

they eat rats, well at least bite them, if you have on on your shoulder, remove it, before going near a horse

some idiot is always going to think they can ride your, bucking bronco crazy horse it's better if you let them, it's good for your self esteem when they are proved wrong

horses are NEVER bomb proof they are simply ..........drugged

Answer 8

How could anyone give a thumbs down for all these answers.????

I found alot of them intriguing.

Appaloosa's have stripped hoofs, white's around their eyes and freckled "twots" lol.

Answer 9

horses stop growing up when they are 5 years old. and stop growing out when they are 7.

if you cut a horse when its 2 it grows up and out but when you cut them when they are 1 they grow up and are generally skinny. if you cut them too late they get proud and still act like a stallion.

horses have spots that when you scratch them they love it and bob their head or rub against you sort of like a dog. horses cannot buck in water a little over their knees.

Answer 10

I really love horses! I think we have a lot in common! Here is a COOL fact....

An endoscope is the little video camera they stick down in a horse for studies.

I hope I helped :) :) :p:p I :x  you

Answer 11

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

The Horse belongs to the Equus Family. Equus comes from the ancient Greek word meaning "QUICKNESS"

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.

Did you know that the Pliohippus was the first ancestor of the horse to have hoofs?

The world's horse population is estimated at 75,000,000.

The average lifespan for a horse is around 20 - 25 years, though they can live up to 30 years.

The "OLDEST" horse recorded to date is - "Old Billy", an English Barge horse who lived to the age of 62 years old.

The"OLDEST" pony in history was 54 years old when he died in France.

The "OLDEST" horse ever to give birth was a 42 year old Australian brood mare.

The "SMALLEST" breed is the Falebella of Argentina. The tallest of the breed stands about 74cm (30 inches) at the shoulder.

The "SMALLEST" pony in history was a stallion named "Little Pumpkin." He stood 14 inches and weighed only 20 lbs!

The "TALLEST" ever horse recorded was a Shire called Samson. He stood 21.2 and a half hands ( 7 ft 2 inches)

Samson is also recorded as the "HEAVIEST" horse weighing 1524kg (3360lbs)

World Record "LOG PULLING" was set in 1893. 2 Clydesdale Stallions hauled a sledge stacked with timber weighing 128 tonnes. The equivalent of pulling 22 African Elephants.

There are over 350 different breeds of horses and ponies.

There are more than 600 Przewalski's horses worldwide.

When spoken to, horses distinguish tones rather than particular words.

The longest tail measured was 22ft long was grown by an American Palomino named Chinook

The longest mane was 18 ft long and grown by a Californian mare named Maude

Horses have "2BLIND SPOTS". One is directly behind them and the other is directly in front of them.

A horse's "HEART WEIGHS" about 10 pounds!

The average horse's HEAD WEIGHS 11.84 pounds

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.

The world speed record for a horse is 43.2 mph, it was set by a four year old race horse named Big Racket.

Did you know that in the old black and white films, when the script said that a horse was to be shot, they really did the shooting on screen?! Sad, huh?

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!

Most foals are born at night under the cover of darkness and away from prying eyes and possible danger.

In the wild horse world, the mare decides when and where the herd will go while the stallion follows.

"LAST PRIMARY ANIMAL" to be domesticated.

Horses can drink up to ten gallens of water a day

It's impossible to predict a horse's color from the foal coat color. They generally will go through several color changes. The color finally becomes "fixed" around two years of age.

The only horse to defeat the great race horse Man'O War was named 'Upset'.

The difference between a mule and a hiny. The mother of a mule is a Mare and the father is a Jackass. The mother of a hiny is a Jenny and the father is a Horse (Stud)

Horses expend more energy lying down than they do when they are standing up!

Rabbits are not rodents. They are lagomorphs, and are more closely related to horses than they are to rats or mice.

The British racehorse Humorist, who won the English derby in the early 20´s, should never have been able to race. When he died shortly after the derby, an autopsy was made, and it was found out that he had been born with only one lung.

With his long limbs and large heart and lungs, the horse is designed for galloping. Jumping is not a natural activity for horses and left to their own devices most will go around obstructions.

China not only has the most people in the world, but also has the most Horses with 10,000,000

The fastest Pony Express ride was 7 days, 17 hours and was carrying Lincoln's inaugural address.

There is no such thing as a white horse. They are all called gray horses because they have little black and white hairs that combine to make them look white. Horses which are white with pink eyes, a pink mouth, and pink ears are called albino.

Horses cannot vomit.

The male seahorse is the one who gets pregnant and delivers the baby seahorses

HIPPOPHOBIA - Fear of horses.

EQUINOPHOBIA - Fear of horses.

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds re ceived in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

Horses cannot breathe through their mouths. That's why you'll never see one panting like a dog.

"Horses have a good sense of memory, if you'v been with the same horse for a long time, they will remember you, but if you havent, they usually wont remember you

of years to become a modern horse.  

Answer 12

Horses originated in North America and migrated to Asia.

There are no Albino horses. There are white horses but they are very rare. All other white horses are grays like Lipizzans.

White hooves are just as strong as dark hooves.

The Plains Indians didn't get horses until the mid 1700's.

The US Army still maintains a mounted cavalry unit.

The largest populations of wild horses and burros live in Nevada.

The Kiger horse has the closest DNA match to the Spanish Barb horse.

The first Quarter Horse Traveler would not have qualified for admission into the AQHA due to excessive white markings.

White markings on Paint horses didn't come from Draft horses.

Kevin, I like your answers, but on this you are wrong and it is a myth. I own paint horses and have lots of white hooves and have trimmed both types myself, but I am not basing my position on my own experience. It has been shown in studies that color makes no difference in the toughness of the hoof.

I don't know who the troll is but I started giving thumbs up to all answers with thumbs down unless they are absolutely wrong.

Answer 13

the closest relatives to equines, (includes zebras and asses) are rhinos and tapirs!  go figure.  they are in the order Perissodactyla (odd toed).  Next time you are at the zoo, take a good look at the rhinos, and you'll see they really do resemble each other in the face!

Answer 14

my twh filly likes mountain dew & crack jacks. But i only feed that as a treat maybe once every 2 months if that