General Horse Facts
The word for a female horse
What is a mare?
The amount of time horses need to sleep lying down each day
What is 45 minutes?
The amount of time horses spend eating each day
What is 16 hours?
The word for a male foal (baby horse)
What is a colt?
The mammal with the largest eyes of all land mammals at around 2 inches (5 centimeters)
What is a horse?
The body weight percentage a horse eats in forage each day
What is 2%?
The height at which a pony becomes a horse
What is 14.2 hands?
The thing both human fingernails and horse hooves are made of
What is keratin?
The estimated population of horses worldwide
What is 60 million?
The reason horses grow longer coats in the winter
What is the change in daylight?
The word for a horse that has just had a foal (baby horse)
What is a dame?
The bone that humans have, but horses don't have
What is a clavicle (collar bone)?
The process by which horses create much of their body heat
What is hindgut fermentation?