Answers Straight From The Horses Mouth!
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 …
My horse recently had a minor injury, and the vet had to come round and take a look at his leg, he had gotten it caught on a root while we were walking, and had very nearly fallen over, except that he managed to keep calm and not trip. He did get it stuck pretty …
One of our mares recently had a foal, and we’ve been loving watching it grow up and watching the mother dote on the new member of the family. We’ve never bred before, so the whole process has been really exciting, not to mention that it all went so smoothly! One point of contention, though, was …