Answers Straight From The Horses Mouth!
Pat 
My son and I were out at a horse show the other day, and there were all kinds of shapes and sizes and colors of different horses. Skinny horses, bulky horses, tall horses, short horses. Every type of horse you could imagine. Faced with all this multitude of different types of horse, my son suddenly …
When my son learned about where mules came from, he was suddenly really interested in all sorts of different crossbreeds. He would ask endless questions about what animals could make what crossbreed. We were out at a local petting zoo the other day, when someone mentioned that they had an animal that even I had …
Horses are big animals, and they’ve been helping us advance civilization for thousands of years. But they weren’t always that way. Horses as we see them today are the result of hundreds, even thousands of generations of selective breeding to get the traits we most desire. Horses now are big, mounts and pack animals, and …
My son and I were watching an old Western film the other day, and at one point there was a grand scene featuring an epic journey over the rugged terrain on horseback. We’ve always both been fascinated by horses, and he’s always wanting to watch more cowboy flicks. When we were watching this most recent …
I recently read the story of Tom Thumb to my son, and he was amazed to learn that cows have multiple stomachs. I explained that actually, quite a few animals had more than one stomach, and in general a different number of organs than we do. We have our own horses on our homestead, so …