In the limiting case where you take your car or horse for a run extremely rarely, the horse surely emits vastly more CO2 per km than the car. What animal gives off the most CO2? Cattle (raised for both beef and milk, as well as for inedible outputs like manure Read more…
From those direct effects, the horse industry’s contribution ripples out into other sectors of the economy. Adding these ripple effects results in an estimate of the total contribution of the horse industry to the U.S. economy of $122 billion, and a total employment impact of 1.7 million jobs. How much Read more…
Horses can identify some colors; they see yellow and blue the best, but cannot recognize red. One study showed that horses could easily tell blue, yellow and green from gray, but not red. Horses also have a difficulty separating red from green, similar to humans who experience red/green color blindness. Read more…
…male horse is called a stallion, the female a mare. What do you call a beautiful female horse? A mare is an adult female horse or other equine. In most cases, a mare is a female horse over the age of three, and a filly is a female horse three Read more…
Horses can’t live with three legs because their massive weight needs to be distributed evenly over four legs, and they can’t get up after lying down. Horses that lose a leg face a wide range of health problems, and some are fatal. Most leg breaks can’t be fixed sufficiently to Read more…
A horse can be trained to come when called just like any other animal. Reinforcing positive behavior with food is the most common method. In order for this to work, you must build a bond with your horse, make the link between a treat and good behavior, and then teach Read more…
So, the average 1,200-pound horse (545.5 kilograms at 2.2 kilograms per pound) has about 54.5 liters of blood, which is approximately 12.3 gallons of blood. How much blood does a 1000 pound horse have? According to Equimed.com, the blood volume of a horse is about 8 percent of their body Read more…
Horses don’t actually have a REAL third eye – that would be bizarre! They do however have something called a pineal gland in their brain that processes information about the environment, like exposure to daylight, similarly to the actual eye. Do horses have a 3rd eyelid? The eyes of a Read more…
The first records of the word whoa are in reference to the command to stop, especially when given to a horse. It’s thought to be a variant of the word ho, which was an earlier way of commanding a horse to stop (and a good way to remember that it’s Read more…
They can mirror human emotions and behavior and will respond to negativity, therefore encouraging the client to be calm, open, gentle and aware. Horses are able to reflect human moods, and being horses, they don’t judge or react the way humans often do to the people they are working with. Read more…