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Horse Basics
Horse Basics
Horse Breeds Beginning With Z
It’s horse breed Thursday again and time for the final letter of the breed alphabet. Make sure you visit the breeds section where I’ve written pages about every breed I can find. If you haven’t met the rest of the alphabet, be sure to do so A | B | C | D | E […]
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African Wonder Tree – Toxic Plant of the Week
The second in my toxic plant of the week series and our naughty plant of this week is the strange-but-beautiful African Wonder Tree, perhaps more often known as the Castor Plant.
Horse Basics
Miohippus – Extinct Equidae
Image from ryanzz The Miohippus was responsible for a great deal of diversity within the equidae horse family. From them over a dozen different genera branched out. These animals lived around 32-25 million years ago during the Oligocene.
Horse Basics
Horse Breeds Beginning With Y
It’s horse breed Thursday again and time to meet one of the last two letters of the breed alphabet. Make sure you visit the breeds section where I’ve written pages about every breed I can find. If you haven’t met the rest of the alphabet, be sure to do so A | B | C […]
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African Rue – Toxic Plant of the Week
Image from Ninara under the CC by 2.0 license As many of you know, there is a pretty large number of plants that are actually toxic to horses and I during my years writing this site I’ve begun to catalogue & photograph as many of them as I can find. This is the Week #1 […]
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Horse Breeds Beginning With W
It’s horse breed Thursday again and time to meet one of the last four letters of the breed alphabet. Make sure you visit the breeds section where I’ve written pages about every breed I can find. If you haven’t met the rest of the alphabet, be sure to do so A | B | C […]
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Horse Breeds Beginning With V
It’s horse breed Thursday again and time to meet one of the last few letters of the breed alphabet. Make sure you visit the breeds section where I’ve written pages about every breed I can find. If you haven’t met the rest of the alphabet, be sure to do so A | B | C […]
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Hipparion – Extinct Equidae
The name Hipparion is actually greek for ‘like a horse’ and these animals originated on the plains of North America & spread to Africa and Eurasia during the Miocene – Pleistocene (around 20 – 2 million years ago).
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Horse Breeds Beginning With U
It’s horse breed Thursday again and time to meet another letter of the equine world. Make sure you visit the breeds section where I’ve written pages about every breed I can find. If you haven’t met the rest of the alphabet, be sure to do so A | B | C | D | E […]
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Mesohippus – Extinct Equidae
The Mesohippus is the ‘middle horse’ and earned this name because they are the link between the eohippus-type horses of the Eocene and more ‘modern’ horses of today. They come from the northern woodlands of North America around 37 – 32 million years ago.
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Horse Breeds Beginning With T
It’s horse breed Thursday again and time to meet another letter of the equine world. Make sure you visit the breeds section where I’ve written pages about every breed I can find. If you haven’t met the rest of the alphabet, be sure to do so A | B | C | D | E […]
Horse Basics
Hypohippus – Extinct Equidae
The size of a modern pony, this is one of the larger equidae ancestors. They were found in the forested areas of North America during the middle Miocene (17 – 11 million years ago).