Everything You Need To Know About Horses

Interesting Horse Facts

You’ve probably seen horses do this strange thing with their noses and wondered what it was all about. If you give your horse something different to eat, or if he’s checking something out by smelling it, he will often raise his head and wrinkle his nose .

Well it’s officially called the Flehmen Response and it allows odours to reach special odlour sensing receptors further back in the horse’s skull. The Flehmen Response is mostly displayed by stallions when they are checking a mare’s urine to see if she’s ready for breeding.