Equine Facts
Tracy Soward-Amalfi: Equine Nutritionist
Equine Facts
- Horses' teeth take up more room in the horses head than its brain does.
- Horses make eight basic sounds: snort, squeal, greeting nicker, courtship nicker, maternal nicker, neigh, roar and blow.
- The salivary glands of a horse produce approximately 10-12 litres of salvia a day.
- The horses digest system is composed of several main components mouth, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine and rectum.
- Horses are herbivores and are classed as monogastric animals like humans they only have one stomach.
- To eat 1kg of concentrates horses need to chew between 200-1200 times.
- To eat 1kg of roughage horses need to chew between 3000-5000 times.
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