Horse facts

November 9, 4:41 AMPhiladelphia Horse Training ExaminerAileen Berwick

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Horses behave differently than one another.  Each of their personalities are individual and unique.  One horse may be appropriate, stuffy and serene while another may be a playful jokester.  A good time to take notice to different horse personalities is at feeding time.  Some horses go through a lot of stress if their food takes five more minutes to arrive and display hostility to stablemates while doing everything possible to get your attention.   On the other side of the spectrum, other horses may wait patiently, and/or act unfazed by the excitement.  Horses respond differently when ridden by the same trainer and with the same training process.  To be a horse trainer, you need to have the ability to custom your training pattern to each horse.

Some horses live up to forty or fifty years of age but horses commonly, naturally die in their late twenties.  A way to tell a horses age is by looking at their teeth.  Young horses are usually full of zip and are sometimes mischievous.  Older horses are calmer and more predictable.  A horse that is ten years of age is desired by many equestrians for ridability.  Horses should not be ridden until the age of four due to the fact that their legs are still in the process of growth up to that age. 

Most horses are born at night and a mare giving birth does not like to be watched.  Mares will actually, sometimes wait to finish giving birth until you are gone.

A horse's mother is called a dam and a horse's father is called a sire.  A horse under one year of age is called a foal.  A young female horse is called a filly and a young male horse is called a colt.  Once a horse is weaned it is called a weanling and after one year of age a young horse is called yearling.  A male adult horse is called either a stallion or gelding (a castrated horse).  A female adult horse is called a mare.

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