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Is My Horse Overweight? Body Condition Scoring Made Simple
How to body condition score a horse on the Henneke 1 to 9 scale: the six places to look and feel, what each score means, how to score a cresty neck, and why a fat horse is a laminitis risk.
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Barn Sour, Cribbing, Bombproof: Horse Slang Decoded for Non-Horse People
A funny but accurate glossary of the horse-world slang that baffles everyone else: barn sour, cribbing, bombproof, green, easy keeper, proud cut and why 15.5 hands is not a height.
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Hairy Horses: Breeds With the Best Feathers, Manes and Mustaches
Yes, horses can grow mustaches. A tour of the hairiest horse breeds, from the feathered legs of the Gypsy Vanner and Shire to the curls of the American Curly and the winter coat of the Yakut, with what the hair is for and what it takes to look after.
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Are Zebras Just Horses in Pajamas? The Real Difference Between Zebras, Horses and Donkeys
Zebras, horses and donkeys share a genus but not a chromosome count. Zebras are closer kin to donkeys than to horses, have never been domesticated, and can only produce sterile hybrids with either.
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Bay, Chestnut or Black? How Horse Coat Color Genetics Actually Work
Every horse colour starts as bay, black or chestnut, decided by two genes. Cream, dun, grey, roan and the white patterns are layered on top. A plain-English guide to what our foal colour calculator is doing.
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Horse Names: 400+ Ideas by Color, Breed and Personality
More than 400 horse names sorted by coat colour, breed origin (with meanings), personality, classics, funny names, show names and pairs, plus how to choose one and what breed registries allow.
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Horse Breeds by Country: Every Country’s National Horse
Which countries have a national horse? Canada, Argentina and Brazil made theirs official by law; Turkmenistan put one on its state emblem; most of the rest are national by custom. Here is the full list, with what is official and what is tradition.
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Can Horses Recognize Their Owners? What the Research Says
Yes. In controlled experiments horses have matched familiar people’s voices to their faces, picked out a keeper’s photograph after six months apart, and remembered whether a person looked angry or happy earlier in the day.
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Horse Teeth Can Tell Their Age: How to Estimate Age by Teeth
A horse's front teeth change on a fairly reliable schedule until about five, and less reliably after that. Here is how to read eruption, cups, dental stars, Galvayne's groove and the angle of the bite, and how far to trust them.
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Horse Quotes and Captions for Instagram
Around 150 original horse captions to copy for Instagram, sorted by mood and occasion: funny, heartfelt, show day, trail rides, barn life, foals, winter, milestones and goodbye posts.
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The Most Expensive Horse Breeds (and the $70 Million Racehorse)
The Thoroughbred is the most expensive horse breed by a distance, and Fusaichi Pegasus is the horse behind the famous $70 million figure. Here is what that number really was, and the record prices for every other kind of horse.
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How Much Does a Horse Cost Per Month? A Brutally Honest Breakdown
In the United States a horse costs roughly $700 to $2,200 a month all-in, and owners routinely underestimate it. Here is a line-by-line monthly budget in US dollars, including the costs people forget.