*HoRsE TrIvIa*

[cocker_luva]

yep

[Desert Arabian]

Can you be more specific? There are certain shapes in the teeth, what are they called? At what age do the shapes appear? Sorry, I should have been more in-depth above.

There's a lot to telling age by teeth

[slleipnir]

Permanent teeth, cups (like the older they are, they're smooth out..hope that made sense..), angle, shape of the teeth (I mean like weared or aged..)..hm I think some teeth conditions too...

I don't really know..

[G.P.girl]

oh sorry,
you can see the infundibulim (sp??) spot on the teeth when horses are about 6, and you can just barely see the end of it when they're 10. the Galvayne's groove (also known as pulp cavity i think) appears when the horse is 8 it's black and it starts out as a tiny dot and it gets bigger as the horse gets older. the incisor teeth get worn down and it shows a different cross section, but that onllly works up til the horse is 8. after that, the horse is considered aged.

[Desert Arabian]

Slleipnir, yep that's really good. G.P Girl, yours is too! I think G.P Girl has the right of way to post a question, since she answered first.

Stars and cups are the shapes that appear in horses teeth. At age 10 horses will start to get their Galvayne's groove, which general disappears at age 30. At age 12, some horses get wolf teeth. At age 5 the horse should have oval teeth with a large cup, at age 10 the tooth turns round and gets a star along with an enamel spot. When a horse is 15 the teeth are triangular and can have a small enamel dot. By age 20 their teeth are biangular and have a star. There is also a hook that appears on top inscisor 2 at age seven, is gone by age 9, and reappears at age 11.

I had to learn a lot about teeth and aging for camp, I had to help age 48 horses, that was a lot of work and a lot of confusion.

There is a lot more to it than what you see here, but it would require me to type a post that would take an hour, there is so much to learn.

[G.P.girl]

ummm....can't think of a question.... ok:
what american breed of horse doesn't need any kind of feed, it can live on hay or grass, it doesn't need shoes, and it doesn't need trimmed in the winter?

[Desert Arabian]

mustang

[G.P.girl]

no, well actually that's probly right too. i was thinking american Curly though. oh well your turn

[Desert Arabian]

The _______________ horse has been around since 2,000 B.C- it's one of the oldest horse breeds in exhistance.

[slleipnir]

Akhal-Teke...? or maybe it's Fjord.....-ponders-...

[Desert Arabian]

nope!

[G.P.girl]

przewalski's horse (sp?)

[slleipnir]

Iberian Horse?

[Desert Arabian]

nope and nope.

I am so sorry it's taken me forever to reply, I am up @ our cottage, it takes forever to get up here.

[countrycowgirl]

the Tarpan