#horse knowledge

[moved-to-slayfk]

went to barnes and noble today with my friend to walk around and stare at books we can’t afford… she pointed a silly horse book out to me and i immediately recognized the horse on the cover

im in too deep

[redhorseofcourse]

Currently gathering information on the type of horse that the Caspian is most related to, the Taleshi horse. They're a bit larger in stature and share most similarities, not deliberately exported like their cousins were (to my knowledge so far). Raised by the Taleshi people (often) of the Gilan province.

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[ten-possums-ina-trenchcoat]

You can bring a dead horse to water but beating it won’t make it a mermaid

[ten-possums-ina-trenchcoat]

I don’t fucking like horses btw, they got a look to them that I find unsavory.

Ever look one in the eye?

They know something

They know everything

Too much, man, too much

[blackwatercowboy]

wait, you can tell a horse's age by their teeth?

@gotta-pet-em-all

You can do rough guesses. Their teeth change as they age. Just like humans, horses grow new teeth and have baby teeth, and they wear down and lengthen over time. When they're all tiny foals, they have teeth that are wider than they are tall, something that don't hold true for adult horses. You usually work aging on the incisors.

If the horse is small, you work on the decidious teeth and how many are shed. By age five they have all 24 adult teeth.

The easiest way to see is the grinding surface. It takes until they are six for the dental star to show, and they still have a bit of an indent called the cup. The dental star is the dark yellow spot in the teeth, and over age the teeth wear down. They get longer and the grinding surface goes from rectangular to triangular.

The seven year hook and eleven year hook are caused by the teeth growing longer over time and being a bit mismatched from wear and tear. first appears at seven, disappears by nine, and then appears again by eleven and keep during the mid teens.

Once they're over ten, they get this dark line on the front, and when that goes from root to flat, they are over twenty. It's called the Galvayne's groove Notably that disappears again on the top and is gone again by the time they are thirty.

[xdead-god-dreamingx]

Horses can't throw up

[krstenevol]

[baorbust]

I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you're looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.

I have so much horse knowledge that I don't know what to do with it. ASK ME ANYTHING.

(The story why I am telling you all this)

I was sitting in my night class this evening and someone was talking about how horses have a weird gait where they move their legs on the same side together, to which I replied "yes, that is called a pace." And she replied "I know, that is why I called it a gait..." To which I had to reply, "No, I mean the gait that they are doing, it is called a pace."  She asked why I knew this and we got into a discussion about racing horses that are actually called pacers, etc.  I worked very hard for a long time to become a nationally ranked Horse Bowl (Quiz Bowl for horses) contestant.  19th IN THE NATION. Thank you.

This has been a useless message from me, BA. -Thank you if you read this whole thing.