Hmm...other facts I can think of:

* Geldings (and stags) and Stallions have to have their sheaths cleaned every 6 months or so to reduce the risk of beans. Beans block their pee track and make it painful to pee. They can get so large it blocks the pee, and the horses can urinate.

* The gestation period of a mare is 11 months

* If you don't take good care of the hoof they can get a condition called "thrush" where it slowly eats away the "frog" (soft pad) of the hoof.

* White hooves are softer than blue/black or striped hooves

* At age 12 some horses get "wolf teeth", which most of the time are removed for they are useless.

* There are three types of bloods: hot, warm, and cold

* The tallest document Mule is Apollo. He was foaled in 1977 and was 19.1 hh, his mother was a Belgian and his father was a Mammoth Jack. He is in the Guinness Book of Records.

* Some facial markings include: wall eye, mealy muzzle, star, stripe, sclera, and blaze.

* Markings for IDing: freeze branding (painless; non-permanent), hot-iron branding (painful; permanent), hoof branding (non-permanent), and mircochipping.

*Horses have a 360 degree field of vision

*Feed commonly fed to horses: hay, oats, barley, maize, cubes, coarse mix, sugar beet, chaff, bran, and linseed

* Tools used for grooming: body brush, dandy brush, water brush, plastic/rubber curry comb, metal curry comb, hoof pick, mane comb, sponges, sweat scraper

Horsey Terms For Horsey People:

* Concussion: the jarring caused to foot and lower leg by the impact of the horse's hoof hitting the ground.

*Dishing: a fault; when the front legs from the knee down move in and outward in a circular motion.

* Ewe-necked- a neck that has an over-developed muscle on the underside and a dipped outline on the top side.

*Jibbah- the shield-shaped bulge on the forehead on an Arabian

*Nap/Nappy- a horse that refuses to proceed in the wrong direction asked.


There's my list for the day.