Do you have a young horse that behaves like an old man? Or a geriatric pony that leaps around like a youngster? It can be handy to know how old a horse is for a variety of reasons...
It is important that we can tell how old a horse is for a variety of reasons. The first of these is that it is just nice to know how old our equine friend is!...
When a horse is young, it will lose its baby teeth, also known as deciduous teeth, over a few years. These will be replaced by erupting permanent teeth, also known as secondary teeth...
So, as we’ve learned, finding out how old a horse is can be tricky. If you are lucky, your horse will have had a passport issued at birth, giving you a permanent and verifiable record of his age...