Archive for the ‘Interesting Horse Facts’ Category
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
These are without doubt the most common heart abnormalities in horses and they are often found during routine veterinary examinations, for example during the pre-purchase examination.
These murmurs can be found with the use of a stethoscope. A horse with a heart murmur will be heard to have one or more ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Horses usually are considered to have memories second only to elephants.
In the wild, if an attack came at a certain place, the herd avoided that spot in the future. This caution is still practiced by wild horses.
If it were not for the horse's good memory, it would be considerably less ...
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Temporary milk teeth are followed by permanent teeth. Unfortunately, the uncomfortable process of shedding one set and the other erupting happens just when we want to start riding, between the ages of two and a half and five years old.
An adult horse has a full set of betwwen 36 and ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
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 ...
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