A white horse is born predominantly white and stays white throughout its life. A white horse has mostly pink skin under its hair coat, and may have brown, blue, or hazel eyes. “True white” horses, especially those that carry one of the dominant white (W) genes, are rare. How rare Read more…
Today, wild horses and burros are present on 179 different BLM Herd Management Areas (HMA), covering 31.6 million acres in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming. Each HMA is different in size, geography, and bloodlines. Why are there no wild horses? Hundreds of years Read more…
The American Paint Horse Association and American Paint Horse Association both acknowledge ‘brown’ as a distinct color. Casual observers often represent bay or chestnut as ‘brown’. In fact, brown includes different shades like chestnut, bay, buckskin, silver dapple, and dun. What is the Colour of horse? There are only four Read more…
Extinct, but not lost Before that, wild horses roamed through most of Europe’s ecosystems, from deserts, steppes and savannahs to deep forests and high mountains. It was exterminated and domesticated by our ancestors. Where do horses live in the wild? Horses living in the wild survive in relatively severe conditions, Read more…
A horse’s coat has a few different types of hair. Temporary hair is your horse’s body hair – the majority of the coat! Manes and tails are permanent hairs, as they don’t shed as their temporary body hair does. Does a horse have hair or fur? Do horses have fur? Read more…
Rabicano, “ticking” or “skunk tail” is a white pattern in horses that can vary in expression from a small “frosting” over the tail to an almost roan appearance. Yet, its genetic causes are still unknown. Can a horse be rabicano and roan? It is, however, possible for a horse to Read more…
What do they look like? Horses have oval-shaped hooves, long tails, short hair, long slender legs, muscular and deep torso build, long thick necks, and large elongated heads. The mane is a region of coarse hairs, which extends along the dorsal side of the neck in both domestic and wild Read more…
An Oglala Sioux war chief, American Horse opposed the white settlement of Sioux land his entire life. The son of Smoke and cousin of Oglala Sioux, American Horse fought in many of the skirmishes and battles of Red Cloud’s war to keep white settlers off of the Bozeman Trail. What Read more…
While hair and fur are terms that are used interchangeably for some animals, you will never hear an equestrian refer to their horse’s coat as fur. A horse’s coat is known as hair, however, it is often referred to as simply their coat. What do you call the hair on Read more…
Thomas Jefferson was a fine horseman who rode horses almost daily for exercise while president. Which president was good with horses? George Washington Thomas Jefferson called him “the best horseman of his age and the most graceful figure that could be seen on horseback.” An avid hunter, breeder and racing Read more…