Did you know that................

Interesting facts about a horse's body. Enjoy!!!

Horse's hooves grow at a rate of about 1cm per month.
The forelock on a horse's head helps to keep flys out of the eyes.
Horse's legs are built so that they can sleep standing up, but to get a good rest they need to lying down.
Each leg has a small spot that looks like a scar called a 'chestnut'.
Horse's knee caps are not done fusing until they are about 3 1/2 years old. That's why many young racehorses are injured.
Mares come in to heat around age 1, but usually can't be safely bred until 4.
Stallions are mature and can breed around 2 or 3 years of age.
A horse's heart weighs about 10 pounds.
A horse's back cannot bend, it remains stiff when the horse moves. That's why it's hard for horses to get up after rolling or resting.
The teeth take up more room in a horse's head than its brain does.
Horses can see color.
Horses can see in two directions at once.
Horses have two blind spots where they cannot see- directly in front of them, and directly behind them.
Human hair and fingernails are made from the same protein as horse hooves.
Horses have 36-42 teeth, with females usually having 36 and stallions and geldings having 40-42. "Canine teeth", remains of fighting teeth, are present on some horses, usually males, in either 1 or 2 pairs. "Wolf teeth" can be present in males or females, and sometimes have to be pulled because they cause pain.
Most breeds of horses have 18 ribs, 6 lumbar bones, and 18 tail vertebrae. Arabians have 17 ribs, 5 lumbar bones, and 16 tail vertebrae.
A full grown horse that weighs about 1,000 pounds contains approximately 13.2 gallons of blood. Horses have about 175 bones in their body.
Horses make 8 basic sounds- snort, squeal, greeting nicker, courtship nicker, maternal nicker, neigh, roar, blow.
It is almost impossible for a horse to vomit-- if they do, their stomachs usually rupture soon after.
It takes a horse 60 days to double it's birth rate.
A horse focuses its eye by changing the angle of its head, not by changing the shape of the lens of the eye, as humans do.
While horses graze, they keep a look out for predators.
A racehorse averages a weight loss of between 15 and 25 pounds during a race.
Adult electric eels 5 feet to 7 feet long produce enough electricity – 600 volts – to stun a horse.
A horse weighing around 1000 lbs. voids from 1 1/2 to 8 1/2 quarts of urine daily.
A horse's gestation period is 11 months, but can be anywhere from 10-12 months long.