Answers Straight From The Horses Mouth!
Horses are big animals. So big that it can make us wonder about their exact anatomical makeup. You have to wonder what kind of evolutionary engineering goes into making a bulky creature like that be able to carry all that weight at all, let alone run as fast as horses do. The other day, while …
I was out riding my horse the other day, and usually, my mind wanders to all sorts of places while I’m out there. This was my first time back out after I fractured a rib playing football, and it occurred to me that when I ride my horse, I’m essentially sitting on its rib cage. …
Some friends and I got into a debate about interbreeding equine species like horses and donkeys. We were talking about whether things like mules or hinnies could breed, since they were the result of interbreeding. None of us were quite sure, although we all had an opinion. I knew that it was all to do …
I’ve been involved in a rather heated debate with some friends recently about whether or not horse’s have toes. Hooves are just a kind of toe, as far as I was concerned, but he was convinced that hooves and toes are different things. While I’m definitely willing to accept that horse toes, they have them, …
While watching a film about horse racing the other day, one thing that really surprised me was learning that horses can be signed up for races before they’re actually born. The horse racing industry moves quickly, and a horse’s racing career starts as early as possible and usually ends by the time they’re four or …