Everything About Horses

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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 Read more…

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 Read more…