Wednesday 19 August 2015

Lifespan of horses

How long does a horse live ?

Most of horses live between 25 to 30 years, but if you take care of your horse properly it might live up to 33 years. The oldest horse (called Old Bill) lived up to 55 years.
Big horses live shorter than small horses like the Arabian horses. Therefore, the people who feed  their horses adequately and take care of them properly would have healthy horses which can live longer than normal.


                                                    Arabian horse




What are the sign of an old horse?

How do we know if a horse is young or old? well, finding the horses' age it's not similar in every horse and it all depends to the breed of the horse and the way they live.

But after the age of 15 your horse will counts as an old horse but not all horses does a horse can be 20 and it still can be like a young horse.

signs of an old horse:

   1. Horses that are old are having grey hair around their eyes.
   2. Skins of old horses would be more loose than a young one.
   3. An old horse would walk slower because it's muscle is weak.
   4.The front teeth of old horses are long and their teeth at the back is shorter.
   5.An old horse has less energy than a young horse.










Saturday 15 August 2015

History of horses

 At first, horses were considered as wild animals like zebra. According to some scientists, early horses were found in America. In the Europe, horses were used as food. They were haunted but they were not tamed. Then, horses moved to Asia and ate long grass, the native apples and carrots which grew there (and they still like them today). When people arrived in Asia they started to haunt horses to eat and use their skin to make clothes. They tried to tame the horses to use them to carry things. The Indo-Europeans were first to tame the wild horses. The paintings in some caves show that early horses used to be too small to carry a human being. When horses had been bred bigger, people used them to ride. Therefore, the culture of horse riding was assimilated in the central Asia and the west Asia. Tame horses could develop people's lives. Horses have had a crucial role in wars and transportation.