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Pls tell me more about a horse ‘s diet.?

Eg.
Wat does a horse eats?
How much it eat?
Where they mostly live in? Which country? Pls specify.
Which website can I find more about it?
How long is their life span?
How many types of horse r there?
Wat r the types?
How they digest their food?
Wat is their gestation period?
Wat is their young name?

Well, that’s a lot of information to answer in a single post. I recommend that you also check out some good books on horses. My favorite is The Ultimate Book of the Horse and Rider by Judith Draper, Debby Sly, and Sarah Muir. I believe it was written in the UK so it has some British slang you don’t always here around American stables, but the information is accurate and presented in an easy-to-read format. It might be a good reference for a project on race horses. Now, on to your questions.

In the wild, a horse would spend twenty hours a day grazing and foraging for the main part of his diet: grass. In a domestic situation, though, the horse’s diet is controlled and regulated. Some don’t have access to pasture, and hardly any have enough acreage of grass to sustain a horse for very long. Enter the staple of the modern horse’s diet: hay. There are many types of hay on the market, timothy, orchard grass, and alfalfa. Most domestic horses also receive additional nutrition in the form of grain. The most basic form of grain would be rolled or crushed oats. But oats lack some of the nutrition horse’s need (for instance, they have low calcium), and thus they are best mixed with another form of supplemental grain like sweet feed, bran, flaxseed, or beet pulp. But nowadays, there has been a great rise in the use of processed, pelleted feeds that are supposed to be more balanced and easier to feed. They also contain some chemicals and starches that some horses have adverse reactions to. Feeding is both a science and an art, and a great deal of thought and care must go into the horse’s diet to prevent one of the biggest threats to their health: a bout of colic.

How much a horse eats depends on several factors, namely their size, age, and the amount of work they do. A slender built horse in heavy work might get a bit less than a heavier horse doing the same amount of work, but more than a heavy horse doing only light work. Most horses should receive more hay than grain, and generally speaking you want them to have an unlimited or nearly unlimited access to it. This is expensive and many modern stables thus regulate how much their horses eat by feeding out several pads of hay throughout the day.

Now, you asked where horses mostly live. Are you speaking of wild or domestic horses? There are no real wild horses anymore, only feral horses (think of it as semi-wild). The mustangs of America are good example. Another would be the brumbies of Australia. Even the Camargue horses live a semi-feral existence in their native France. Then you have the British ponies, the Dartmoor and Exmoor living feral on the moors. As for domestic horses, they can be found throughout the world and their conformation and use varies widely from region to region. The Germans have refined a variety of warmblood breeds that now excel in the sports of dressage and show jumping especially. They are athletic breeds, and many of their modern descendants carry a great deal of Thoroughbred influence for added athleticism. But if you take a look at some of the desert-based breeds like the Barb and Arab, you’ll see some huge differences. These horses would bred to go long periods of time without rest or reprieve and to survive the harsh conditions of desert life. Today they excel in endurance competitions.

Horses generally have a lifespan of about 25 years, ponies a little higher. That being said, with today’s advances in veterinary medicine, we’re seeing more horses live for well over 30 years and do so comfortably.

As for types of horses, are you referring to different breeds? There are literally hundreds of breeds of horses. They have been refined for sometimes hundreds of years for a specific sport or purpose. You generalize different breeds into a few different categories, though. You have the hot-blooded light horses (Arabs, Barbs, Thoroughbreds). These are also considered foundation breeds, as the Arab and Thoroughbred in particular have been very important in refining and creating a number of other breeds. Another type would be the heavy, draft-type horses (your Shires, Clydesdales, Belgians, etc.). These were horses designed for the hard, manual labor of pulling carts or even barges. There’s also a third type, warmblood horses. Originally, many centuries ago, the first warmbloods were created through a mixing of draft blood and lighter horses, like Arabs. The result was a horse with a good amount of bone and mass, but with some athleticism, too. They’re usually a bit easier to handle than some of the hot-blooded breeds, as well. Today, we’ve seen many of these warmblood breeds further refined with the introduction of additional Thoroughbred blood. These warmblood breeds are the ones you’ll most often see in Olympic and Grand Prix level sports like dressage and show jumping (the Thoroughbred is still prevalent in eventing, though).

The horse gestation period is usually a little over 11 months. The young is called a foal. A male foal is often called a colt, unless he is gelded (castrated) in which case he is called a gelding. A female foal is referred to as a filly. It takes about four years for a horse to fully mature. Some breeds mature emotionally at a slower or quicker rate, however.

Now, you say your project is about racehorses in particular. The racing world is very different from most other disciplines within the horse community. I assume you’re talking about Thoroughbred racing, as this is the most prevalent. There are smaller racing communities for Quarter Horses, Arabs, and even Appaloosas. But by far the most common racehorse is the Thoroughbred.

The amount of money spent in any horse sport can be quite high, but Thoroughbred racing attracts owners who are beyond just wealthy, they are at the top tier of the economy. You could go to a sale at Keeneland and expect to see these unraced, unproven yearlings sell for millions of dollars. These are also the best horses in the industry with the best breeding and the highest potential. Horses lacking some of the notable lineage of these horses will sell for much less. And if a horse is proven a poor or unsuccessful racehorse, his fate off the track is uncertain. There’s been a surge in adoption groups that rescue ex-racers and relocate them to other homes. The soundest horses are often sold by their owners for retraining in another discipline. But racing is a tough life for a horse. They’re introduced to hard, grueling work as babies. Their bones haven’t finished closing, they haven’t finished maturing, and that’s why you see some horrendous injuries received on the track.

I’ve worked around thoroughbreds my whole life. When I was school, I also did my junior thesis on the current state of American Thoroughbred racing. It was a few years ago, but some of the sources I used should still be a round. A great website for up to date news on the TB racing industry and race results is http://www.drf.com. This is the Daily Racing Form. Others to check out are http://www.horse-races.net, http://www.blood-horse.com, and http://www.ntra.com.

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