Quick post today gang as I have to get stuff ready for hunting tomorrow, go shopping and then I have a date with a farmers daughter tonight.
- A horses sight, hearing, smell and touch are all better developed than humans.
- Horses respond to touch all over the body – especially on their ears. They can sense a fly landing on any part of their body abd use their tail to flick it off.
- A horse’s eyes are set apart on either side of its head. It has a good view of its surroundings – except directly in front of its nose and directly behind its tail.
- Horses have large ears that rotate 180 degrees.
- The ears of a horse can indicate how it is feeling. If they are laid back and flat it is felling aggressive.
- Using smell alone, horses are able to recognise humansand animals they are familiar with.
- Horses are also sensitive to smells in their environment, such as dung, dirty troughs, musty feed, bad water and certain plants.
- The whiskers that grow from a horse’s muzzle and around its eyes are used to feel objects around them and should never be removed.
- When a horse is cold it will feel cold to the touch behind its ears.
- Horses have a good long term memory. A horse will often remember where it got a fright and will continually shy at that place.
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