Welcome to toxic plant Monday where once a week we learn about yet another member of the plant world that has it in for horses. Today we are going to look at a really gorgeous tree – the snowy blooms of the Black Locust Tree.
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Horse Basics Category
Black Cherry Tree – Toxic Plant of the Week
It’s Monday and that time of the week again, time to learn about another plant that can make your horse sick (the list seems never ending already, & it’s only the B’s!). Today a closer look at the Black Cherry Tree with it’s vibrant scarlet red berries.
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Western Horse or Equus Occidentalis – Extinct Equidae
The Western Horse represents one of the larger prehistoric horse species – they were about the size of modern mustangs. Their earliest fossils date back 500,000 years and they died out at the end of the last Ice Age (around 11,000 years ago).
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Bitterweed – Toxic Plant of the Week
For the past few weeks I’ve been sharing some of the more toxic members of the plant world every Monday. These are plants you should keep away from your horse and today we are going to look at a sunny yellow little plant that just sounds yukky, Bitterweed.
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Quagga – Extinct Equidae
Perhaps one of the more recently extinct equidae, the Quagga was a subspecies of the plains zebras. They were with us until the end of the 19th century.
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Miniature Horses – Horse Types
Bird of Paradise – Toxic Plant of the Week
It’s toxic plant Monday again and time to take a look at another of the more beautiful but wicked members of the plant world. Today it’s the lovely and brightly colored Bird of Paradise, another beautiful flower for a Monday.
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Hagerman Horse or Equus Simplicidens – Extinct Equidae
The Hagerman Horse (also called the Hagerman Zebra) was native to North America from the Pliocene to the Pleistocene (around 3.5 million years ago).
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Hotblooded Horses – Horse Types
Different from some of the other types of horse, there are only two recognized hotblooded breeds the Arabian and the Thoroughbred. A cross between the two breeds is also considered hotblooded.
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Bermuda Grass – Toxic Plant of the Week
Welcome to toxic plant Monday where it’s time to learn more about plants that can do harm to our equine friends. Moving on to the B’s, this week we take a closer look at a fairly common grass, Bermuda Grass whose toxicity is actually not it’s fault.
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Equus Scotti – Extinct Equidae
The Equus Scotti (or Scott’s Horse) was native to North America and went extinct during the last Ice Age. They lived during the Pleistocene.
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Gaited Horses – Horse Types
Image from Just chaos
Gaited animals possess a very different way of moving than the majority of domestic breeds. They are prized as riding horses over distances due to their smooth gaits
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