HORSE
LIFE
CYCLE FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE HORSES
STAGES OF LIFE CYCLE Want to know the stages of a horses life
Fun Facts! Did you know that horses sleep standing up and laying down?
HOW A HORSE SURVIVES Horses have very good eysight
STNETNOC FO ELBAT
STAGES OF A HORSES LIFE
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2
Foal
STAGES OF A HORSES LIFE Yearling
STAGES OF A HORSES LIFE
3
4
5
6
Young Adults
STAGES OF A HORSES LIFE Adults
HOW A HORSE SURVIVES
FUN FACTS
STAGES OF A HORSES LIFE
Foals Foals are usually born at night. At first, foals only drink milk from their mothers. But within a month, they begin to nibble on grass and hay. When foals are born they can't eat grass. Because their legs are to long to reach the ground. 1
STAGES OF A HORSES LIFE
Yearling When a horses turns 1 it becomes a yearling. A yearling is to young to ride. But it can be taught to follow simple directions like walk and stand. 2
STAGES OF A HORSES LIFE
Young Adults Young adults are three years old. Young adults are old enough to ride. They learn to follow directions like trotting, canter, and gallop.
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STAGES OF A HORSES LIFE
Adult Police ride adult horses because they fit through small spaces. Some adult horses are trained to work on ranches. They help move all the cattle to another place. A lot of adult horses live 25-30 years. 4
HOW A HORSE SURVIVES Horses mostly eat grass, but the
also have good hearing. In the
horses that live in farms eat hay
wild they use their sharp senses
and grains. Horses are herbivores.
to stay safe from animals that
A horse that weighs a 1,000 pounds
might eat them. Another way
can eat 15 to 24 pounds. Horses
horses survive in the wild is
have good eyesight, they have the
sleeping is sleeping while
largest eyes of any land animal.
standing. In one day they take
Their eyes are on the top of their
several naps.
head, that means that they they can see in many directions. Horses
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FUN FACTS
Horses sleep both lying down and standing up.
There are over 300 different breeds of horses
Horses have around 205 bones in their body
Baby horses can walk and run after a few hours
They also communicate Horses use their ears, their feelings through eyes, and nostrils to facial expressions express their mood 6