Horses and ponies are awesome I really love them so I decided to do my post about them
*Height
There is a difference between them, horses are 14.3 hands or over ( Horses and ponies are measured in hands 1 hand is 10 cm so 14.3 hands are 1.49 cm ) and ponies are 14.2 or under.
*Colour
They can come in lots of different colours the most common colours are: Brown, Black,Chestnut (like a copper-red colour),bay (a blackish brown colour) and grey actually white but they are called grey.
*Feed
The most important feed for horses is Grass and hay. Hard feed is also good if you don't feed them hay at night. Hard feed can be oats,chaff (chaff is a kind of specially chopped up hay),pellets and barley.
* Jumping
Jumping plays a big role in equestrian sports such as Show jumping, Eventing and hunter jumping. Show-jumping and Eventing feature in the Olympics as well as Dressage.
* Some Facts about horses
*A horse called Old Billy lived for 62 years!
*The highest a horse has jumped is 2 meters and 47cms !
*There is about 75 million horses in the world.
*Horses teeth can be used to estimate his/her age.
A Black Pony A famous Show Jumper,Katie Mc Vean
*Horses teeth can be used to estimate his/her age.
A Black Pony A famous Show Jumper,Katie Mc Vean
This is a link for horse facts:http://www.freewebs.com/minihorsekidsclub/factsabouthorses.htm
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Fantastic post Ella! You have included a photo and a link. Well done!
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Thank you I'm trying to make a form with the answers in this post but it wont let me go past the 2nd question.SO ANNOYING!!!
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