“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.” GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & COMPANY, Inc. What Read more…
More specific terms are colt for a male foal and filly for a female foal, and are used until the horse is three or four. When the foal is nursing from its dam (mother), it may also be called a “suckling”. After it has been weaned from its dam, it Read more…
Both hair and fur are made of keratin and grows through follicles in the skin. When referring to the coat of the horse, equestrians use the term hair, although many horse lovers simply refer to their horse’s hair as a coat. What is horse fur like? Horsehair can be very Read more…
TIL Baby horses are born with “feathers”, AKA faery fingers or golden slippers (real name eponychium). They protect the mother’s uterus during gestation and birth canal during parturition from damage from the otherwise sharp and dangerous hoof kicks. Are horses born with feathers? Precocial animals are born with all their Read more…
A horse needs to eat 1.5% to 3% of their body weight in food daily! In our example of a 1,000-pound horse, they would need between 15 to 30 pounds of forage. It is recommended that at least 1% of a horse’s daily food intake is comprised of roughage, such Read more…
Provide plenty of roughage Many pleasure and trail horses don’t need grain: good-quality hay or pasture is sufficient. If hay isn’t enough, grain can be added, but the bulk of a horse’s calories should always come from roughage. Do horses actually eat hay? In simple terms, horses eat grass and Read more…
Nutritionists recommend horses consume at least one to two pounds (0.5 to 1 kilograms) of long-stem forage each day. Long-stem forage is best defined as hay or pasture. How much forage should a horse have? Healthy mature horses should consume between 1.5 and 2% of their body weight per day Read more…
Mowing your pastures to a height of 4 inches three to four times a year will keep the grasses less mature. Young plants are more desirable and palatable for horses. Make sure to mow weeds at or before flowering to prevent seeding. You can apply herbicides selectively and carefully as Read more…
noun. horse·hide ˈhȯrs-ˌhīd. : the dressed or raw hide of a horse. : the ball used in the game of baseball. What are horse hides used for? Horse leather is traditionally used for shoes and clothing and is a smooth leather. Horse aniline leather often has a special pattern due Read more…
three layers. Like the skin, each hair has three layers – the medulla in the middle, the cortex around that, and the cuticle on the outside. Does horse have fur or hair? Q: Why do we say some animals have “hair” while others have “fur”? A: All mammals have hair—dogs, Read more…