Archive for September 8th, 2008

How Horses Communicate

Horses can communicate how they are feeling by their facial expressions. They use their ears, nostrils, and eyes to show their moods. Beware of a horse that has flared nostrils and their ears back. That means it might attack!

Horses Are Measured in Hands

Horses are measured in hands’, from the days when the animal’s height would be gauged by a man placing one hand above another up the horse’s side from the ground to the wither ( the highest point of the horse’s shoulder, just in front of where the saddle sits.) Later, it was agreed that the [...]