How to look at horse teeth using pictures?

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How to look at horse teeth using pictures?

Answer 1

just think of it this way, the pointier the teeth the older the horse

the mouth is like this : < and the more like that it is the older the horse, ( like that is young. its hard to explain with out me showing you on my own live horse

Answer 2

This site has some good drawings to illustrate the process of determining age by looking at a horse's teeth:

http://www.greenacres-stud.com/ageingthe...

If you're buying a registered horse, then the papers will give the horse's age.  

If the horse is a Thoroughbred which has raced, and has a lip tattoo, the first character in the tattoo gives the year of birth, as follows:

http://www.equinerescue.info/tattoos.txt

If the horse is a Standardbred which has raced, and has a lip tattoo, this website gives the year of birth code for the tattoo:

http://www.sphomaine.net/faq.html

Aging a horse by looking at the teeth can be a chancy way of figuring the age.  If I was looking to buy a horse, since I'd be planning on having a pre-purchase vet check anyway, I'd have the vet do the age estimating for me.  (And yes people do lie about the age of horses.  A friend of mine went to buy a horse, and the people who were selling it to her told her the horse was 9.  As it happened, I knew the horse and knew that it was actually 14.)