Equine Facts

Tracy Soward-Amalfi: Equine Nutritionist

Equine Facts

o Horses’ teeth take up more room in the horses head than its brain does.

o Horses make eight basic sounds: snort, squeal, greeting nicker, courtship nicker, maternal nicker, neigh, roar and blow.

o The salivary glands of a horse produce approximately 10-12 litres of salvia a day.

o The horses digest system is composed of several main components mouth, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine and rectum.

o Horses are herbivores and are classed as monogastric animals like humans they only have one stomach.

o To eat 1kg of concentrates horses need to chew between 200-1200 times.

o To eat 1kg of roughage horses need to chew between 3000-5000 times.

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