Answers Straight From The Horses Mouth!
The other night, I heard a loud bang outside on my homestead, so I went out to investigate. I couldn’t see anything when I got out there, and everything was quiet, so I decided it must have been nothing. Cautious as ever, though, I decided to go into my horse’s stable to check on them …
Recently, one of our horses died. We knew it was coming as she was getting quite old, but it was still devastating nonetheless. The sadder thing is that she was part of a bonded pair that had been doing everything together basically their whole lives. It made it even harder on our other horse, and …
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 …
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 …
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 …