Equine Facts

Tracy Soward-Amalfi: Equine Nutritionist

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.