14 Facts You Didn’t Know About Horses

Hi!
Today we are going to explain you 14 facts about  horses. So let’s get started!


1. Horses cannot breathe through their mouths.

For breathing they use only their nostrils.

2. This is an  Akhal-Teke horse, the most beautiful horse in the world!

These horses can be found in Turkmenistan

3. Horses can do yoga.
                                         
4. There are more horses in Mongolia than people.

The amount of horses in Mongolia exceeds 2.5 million.



5. Hippophobia is the fear of horses.


6. Horses like sweet flavors and will usually reject anything sour or bitter.

They always enjoy to be treated to carrots, apples and oats.


7. Horses teeth never stop growing.
                                        
Horses have to chew rough grasses that wear down the teeth – if the teeth do not regenerate an animal would soon be left with nothing but gums.


8. Horses can not vomit.

If the animal overeats as he can't be sick, he coulg have a colic and die.


9. Horses have 16 muscles in each ear, allowing them to rotate their ears 180 degrees.
                               
If you see the ears of the horse flop down, it means the animal get relaxed.


10. Ponies live longer than horses and can live well into their 50′s.

The average life span for hoses varies from 15 to 40 years old, in captivity they live less.
                                  

11. Horses with pink skin can get a sunburn.

They may even have a skin cancer.
                      

12 Horses have a great long term memory, (especially for places they were spooked).

Even after a long separation they remember humans who treated them well.



13.The oldest horse on record lived to the age of 62 and died in 1822. 

The oldest horse ever known was named Old Billy, it died on November 27, 1822 near Manchester.

14. Horses have 7 common blood types (A, C, D, K, P, Q, U).

The eighth time is not internationally recognized and called T type.

Nutrition

Hi! Today we are going to talk about the nutrition of the horses. The horses have got a delicate digestive system, so you must be careful with the food that you give to them.

Normally, horses eat hay, concentrated food like the cereals and pastures, that are the most natural food for them.

The amount of food that you give to your horse, depends on the age of the horse, its race, the condition of its teeth, the weather and the quality of the food.

Obviously, you must give water to your horse and furthermore, you can give it vitamins or minerals.

And that's all for today. See you next week!

Horse Jumps

Horse Riding has got about twelve different disciplines, today we are going to be talking about one of them: Horse Jumping.
It consists in the horse jumping over a number of obstacles in a circuit already studied by the rider before.
The height, the number of obstacles and the lenght of the circuit depends on the age and the level of the horse and of the rider.
There are three different types of jumps. The upright jump, the oxer and the combination.
The easiest one for the horse is normally the oxer because the horse can see the jump better.
Now we are going to talk about the scoring:
Everytime the horse knocks down the bar, or stops, it gets +4 points.
So the maximun score is 0 points that means you have done a perfect circuit. If you fall of the horse you are out of the competitio so you lose.
In the case that more than one rider has 0 points, the rider that has spent the minimun time to complete the circuit would win.
And thats all for today.

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INTRODUCTION

Hi!

We are Antonia and Laura and this is our blog.

In this blog we are going to talk about horses.

We are planning to publish many photos and maybe a few videos about them.

We are also going to talk about the disciplines of riding.

We decided to make our blog about horses because we both really like them and we think that they are very interesting animals.

We think that people don´t see all the good things that horses can bring to humans, how make us feel...

We really hope that you will like our blog and have fun reading our posts.