RANDOM FACTS
- The tallest horse was Big Jake Standing at 20 hands High!
- Old Billy was the longest living horse in the world living up to 62 years old!
- Horses can not vomit.
- Horses like sweet flavors and will usually reject anything sour or bitter
- Like a fingerprint, every zebra has a unique stripe pattern.
- Horses drink at least 25 gallons of water a day (more in hotter climates).
- Horses teeth never stop growing.
- Ragweed is responsible for more horse deaths than most other toxic plants.
- It takes 9-12 months to re-grow an entire horse hoof.
- Horses have been found in cave paintings that date back to around 15000 B.C.
- You can tell if a horse is cold by feeling behind their ears. If that area is cold, so is the horse.
- Mown grass cuttings can cause colic in horses.
- Horses have 16 muscles in each ear, allowing them to rotate their ears 180 degrees.
- Ponies live longer than horses and can live well into their 50’s.
- The four horses of the apocalypse are said to signify the end of the world; conquest on a white horse, famine on a black horse, war on a red horse and plague on a pale horse.
- A small indent in a horses skin (usually on the neck or shoulder) is called a prophet’s mark and is considered good luck.
- Mongolian tribes were the first to domesticate the horse, about 5000 years ago.
- Horses have a great long term memory, (especially for places they were spooked).
- Giant white horses are carved in chalk on several hillsides in England. Some date back hundreds of years – folklore says that when King Arthur of he Round Table returns to the throne, one of the chalk horses would get up and dance.
- The best way to determine the age of a horse is by examining it’s teeth.
- You can tell if a horse is dehydrated by pinching their skin, if it takes time for the skin to return from the pinch, they need water.
- A horses stomach should always make gurgling noises, an absence of them can mean colic.
- Horses have 7 common blood types.
- Horses are social animals and will get lonely if kept alone.
- Donkeys have been known to live 35-40 years.
- Arabian horses have one fewer vertebrae and one less rib than other breeds.
- When cantering, a horse takes a breath with every stride.
- Horses will mourn the passing of a companion.
- All horses have parasites in their stomach and intestines in small quantities, they only become a problem if the count builds up.
- Horses can sleep both lying down and standing up.
- Horses can gallop shortly after birth.
- Horses have around 205 bones in their skeleton.
- Horses are herbivores (plant eaters).
- Because horse’s eyes are on the side of their head they are capable of seeing nearly 360 degrees at one time.
- A male horse is called a stallion, A female horse is called a mare, A young male horse is called a colt, A young female horse is called a filly.
- Shetland ponies are small but very strong.
- When horses look like they’re laughing, they’re actually engaging in a special nose-enhancing technique known as “flehmen,” to determine whether a smell is good or bad
- When a domesticated horse is released in the wild they shed all traces of domestication rapidly.
- Horse's have better memories than elephants.
- Horses have the largest eyes of any land animal.