syphilis is a form of frambesia which has beenchanged by transfer to the white European. that horses acquire the disease we know as dourine (horse syphilis) through sexual contact with syphilitic humans. What STDs can horses get? Contagious equine metritis Read more…
Examples of zoonotic pathogens that can be found in horse manure are Salmonella spp., strains of Escherichia coli, Listeria monocytogenes, Giardia, Cryptosporidia, and Campylobacter spp. Does horse poo have germs? Pathogens and Vermin: In addition to the above concerns, pathogens Read more…
Trench warfare, gas attacks, barbed wire, machine guns and, from 1917 onwards, tanks would change the nature of war, but not before eight million horses, donkeys and mules had died. Horses were active on the Western Front and even more Read more…
This is an instinctive defense mechanism. Having found that bucking the rider off results in not having to work, the horse does it to avoid being ridden. Disobedience to the riding aids, when a horse does not wish to do Read more…
Unlike humans, horses are especially adapted to seeing well in the dark, which makes sense given their evolution as prey animals. Nighttime is when many predators would attack their wild ancestors. Do horses see better in the dark? Horses have Read more…
Horses have visual adaptations that allow them to see in very little light. They have more rod photoreceptors (cells that help you see at night) and larger pupils (the black part at the center of the eye that lets light Read more…
A horse’s brain is DIFFERENT than a human brain. While both equine and human brains have two sides, horses have a very underdeveloped corups callosum, which is the connective tissue between the two hemispheres of the brain that allows messages Read more…
A trap, pony trap (sometimes pony and trap) or horse trap is a light, often sporty, two-wheeled or sometimes four-wheeled horse- or pony-drawn carriage, usually accommodating two to four persons in various seating arrangements, such as face-to-face or back-to-back. What Read more…
Shetlands top out around pulling 900 pounds. How much weight can a horse cart pull? Horses can typically pull about 1/10 of their body weight in “dead weight,” such as a plow or fallen log. If you add wheels to Read more…
The horse brain weighs between 600 and 800 g. There is an old myth which says that the horse’s brain is only the size of a walnut, which is by no means true, but the horse’s brain is smaller than Read more…