Horse Life Cycle by Maryam Lohana

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

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STAGES OF A HORSES LIFE

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Foal

STAGES OF A HORSES LIFE Yearling

STAGES OF A HORSES LIFE

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4

5

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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.

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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.

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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