The horse became an integral part of the lives and culture of Native Americans, especially the Plains Indians, who viewed them as a source of wealth and used them for hunting, travel, and warfare. In the 19th century, horses were used for many jobs. How did horses help the New Read more…
However, there are certain things to watch for: Horses without access to water. Never seeing anyone caring for the horses or never seeing the horses eating; horses should eat for hours every day. ALL of the horses look poor; i.e. visible ribs and spine, dingy coats, hooves appear to need Read more…
Freight haulage was the last bastion of horse-drawn transportation; the motorized truck finally supplanted the horse cart in the 1920s.” Experts cite 1910 as the year that automobiles finally outnumbered horses and buggies. When did horses stop being used in the US? 1910sBy the late 1910s, cities became inhospitable to Read more…
Horse and van and were replaced, in the main, by motorised delivery vehicles from around the 1920s. When did vehicles replace horses? By 1908, entrepreneurs were producing cars in earnest and their work couldn’t have come at a more fortuitous time. By the late 1910s, cities became inhospitable to the Read more…
Horses have proven useful to other species they share the range with: in winter months, they have the instinct to break through even deep crusted snow where the grass cannot be seen. They also open up frozen springs and ponds with their powerful hooves, making it possible for smaller animals Read more…
Wild horses provide a diet for predators and scavengers; such has mountain lions and bob cats as well as coyotes, foxes and vultures. The impact of wild horse hooves may help improve aeration of the humus and keep fungi down. What is the value of a wild horse? To those Read more…
As we have established, horses help our planet in more ways than one. They are helping the grass grow, they are cleaning up land by eating it, and they are carrying us all over the place. Another way in which they are saving our environment is their contribution to renewable Read more…
A growing body of research suggests that horses can enter a depression-like state as a reaction to their environment or chronic pain. Research from France suggests that horses can develop something akin to depression in response to social or physical discomfort. What are the signs of a depressed horse? 9 Read more…
The Environmental Protection Agency excluded horse manure from solid waste regulation because it contains neither significant amounts of hazardous materials nor exhibits hazardous characteristics. Horses do not carry any of the 120 viruses and pathogens that create risk for humans from carnivore and omnivore species. Is horse poo clean? Horse Read more…
Likewise, horses fart so much because their diet is mostly plant-based, and their fibrous food gets digested through fermentation in the back half of their digestive tract. (Elephants and rhinos do this too.) Do horses pass gas? Normal horses produce tremendous amounts of gas as a byproduct of the breakdown Read more…