FREE ESSAY ON HORSES AND HOW THEY GROW

HORSES AND HOW THEY GROW

Horses and How They Grow
Horses are fun to ride, but they can be a lot of hard work. The first horse was the
Eohippus. It was about the size of a fox. It can be traced over a period of 60 million
years. From America they spread across the world. Then 8-10,000 years ago the horse
be-came extinct in America. It was reintroduced by the Spanish 
Conquistadors in the 16th century. The herds of mustangs in north
America is descended from horses introduced by the Spanish in the 16th century.
Baby horses are born from a mare horse. The mare holds the baby for 11 or 12 months. Most
mares will have 5 or 6 foals during their lives. Normally a foal is born with its front
feet first. Foals are born with their eyes open and with a full coat of hair. When the
newborn foal is born, it drinks its mother's milk for the first 6 
Months. Foals can stand up shortly after birth. It also begins to 
Supplement its diet by nibbling on grass and it's mother's oats.
The best place to feed your horse is in a bucket. A horse must have fresh water and eat
oats. A healthy treat for horses is carrots and apples. A horse's age can be told by
looking at its teeth. Up to the age of five a horse still has its milk teeth. A foal can
be weaned from 4-6 months. Most horses reach their full size by the time they are five
years old. The bones from a baby foal are very soft for the first three years. You
shouldn't ride a horse until it is three years old because you can sway its back. When
the owner weans the foal he separates it from the mother, and puts it out to the pasture
with other foals. A baby girl horse is a filly, and when she is mature she is called a
mare. A baby boy horse is a colt. When he is mature, he is called a stallion. A yearling
is a one-year-old horse.
Training horses requires great skill and patience. It begins almost immediately after it
is born. You should put a halter on it, and teach it to lead and to tie up to fences and
to stand. 
Horses grow up with help from their mothers and lots of help are grown up you can have
fun riding them and they can be a friend to you.