As I noted earlier, horse feed generally isn’t harmful for dogs. However, when the feed contains non-food items, such as herbs and over-the-counter ingredients or if you top-dress the feed with products, such as dewormer or medication, it is important Read more…
filly. A filly is a female horse that is too young to be called a mare. There are two specific definitions in use: In most cases, a filly is a female horse under four years old. In some nations, such Read more…
Why are the Germans taking everything from the farm? They needed to supply the army with food for the soldiers on the front lines. Trenches provided soldiers a place to sleep and helped to cover them from raids and attacks. Read more…
dam. A foals’ mother is called a dam or broodmare. Mares are females over four years old, and filly refers to females four and younger. The mother of a horse is listed on the horse’s pedigree as the dam. The Read more…
The mode of warfare changed, and the use of trench warfare, barbed wire and machine guns rendered traditional cavalry almost obsolete. Tanks, introduced in 1917, began to take over the role of shock combat. Early in the War, cavalry skirmishes Read more…
Morpurgo researched the subject further and learned that a million horses died on the British side; he extrapolated an overall figure of 10 million horse deaths on all sides. Were any horses hurt in the filming of War Horse? Amazingly, Read more…
Peace. At the end of the war, the Army had far more horses than it needed in peacetime. Around 500,000 were sold for work, about 100,000 of these in Britain, the rest abroad. Owing to public concern about the treatment Read more…
It was disbanded in 1919. After the war, the AIF light horse regiments were demobilised and disbanded; however, the brigade briefly existed as a part-time militia formation in Queensland until 1921 when its regiments were reorganised into cavalry brigades. What Read more…
Archive, 1925: more than 100,000 horses killed or wounded in the first world war. The total casualties as distinct from accidental injuries in horses and mules on the Western Front during the Great War was 120,886. How many horses were Read more…
A number of Australian light horse units are still in existence today, generally as Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC) cavalry units. What happened to the horses of the Light Horse? They were gutted and the skins salted (these were valuable Read more…