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A horse is considered adult at age four.
A female horse over 4 years old is called a mare.
A male horse over 4 years old is called a stallion.
Horses are measured in hands.
A hand is four inches.
A horse is generaly over 14.2 hh (hands high).
Anything under 14.2 hh is a pony.
There are over 200 breeds of horses in the world.
A horse's gestation period (time between breeding and birth) is about
11 months, but can be anywhere from 10-12 months.
Horses usualy live to be 20-25 years old. The oldest horse lived to be
62.
A father horse is called a sire.
A mother horse is called a dam.
The scientific name for the horse is equus caballus. Horses like classical music.
The oldest horse was named Old Billy. He
was a cross breed, he was born in 1760 and he lived to be 62.
The World's Largest Horse was a purebred
Belgian stallion named Brooklyn Supreme. He stood 19.2 hands (6'6") at
his withers. He weighed over 3,200 pounds and is entered in the Guiness
Book of World Records. He was foaled in 1928 and died in 1948. He lived
in Iowa.
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