Hi!  I just bought the most beautiful horse, but I know nothing about them!  I'm a bit worried that I bit off more than I can chew!
Oh my yes, they are a huge commitment. They have evolved over the lats 45-55 million years!
Wow!  Well, the farmer who sold it to me did give me some hay to feed it - is there anything else it might like to eat?
enables them to make use of speed to escape predators and they have a well-developed sense of balance and a strong fight-or-flight response. Related to this need to flee from predators in the wild is an unusual trait: horses are able to sleep both standing up and lying down, with younger horses tending to sleep significantly more than adults. Female horses, called mares, carry their young for approximately 11 months, and a young horse, called a foal, can stand and run shortly following birth
, been a man and a woman. Before I walked in and actually met everybody, I felt a little bit intimidated about this, I thought 'Oh my God, I need to meet them so they're going to tell me what I need to know.' And when I actually got here and spoke to everyone, they kind of didn't really know. And I was twenty-eight, and they kind of wanted me to be wiser than my years, just have the physicality of a twenty-eight