Horse

Equus caballus

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The horse is the domesticated form of Equus caballus, shaped over thousands of years for riding, driving, draft work, racing, sport, ranch use, therapy, meat, milk, and companionship. Horses range from small hardy ponies to tall warmbloods and heavy draft animals, but they share the same basic grazing anatomy, herd instincts, flight response, and need for steady movement. Breed, type, training history, soundness, and temperament often matter more to daily suitability than color or size. Searchers may arrive looking for a family horse, a performance prospect, a farm team, or background on the species itself.

Horse care is built around forage, hoof care, dentistry, vaccination, parasite control, shelter from severe weather, and management that respects social behavior. Stables, pastures, dry lots, and training barns all succeed or fail on routine: clean water, safe fencing, balanced feed, correct tack fit, and enough turnout or exercise to prevent stiffness and stress. Buyers and breeders use pedigrees, registration papers, veterinary exams, performance records, and transfer histories to understand risk and value. Even a quiet horse needs skilled handling, because weight, speed, and fear can turn small mistakes into injuries.

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Eyarth Chablis

Welsh Pony · Horse

Female · 3 years

By Jean Greenlee

Sasha

Arabian · Horse

Female · 7 years

By Dawn Voris

Your Mom

White · Horse

Female · 223 years

Caesar

American Quarter Horse · Horse

Male · 28 years

By Hoffner Hill Farm LLC

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River Bottom Ranch, LLC

Parrott, Virginia

Miniature Horse

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JET Farm

Wardell, Virginia

American Quarter Horse

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Ulfers Farms & Exotics

Bristow, Iowa

Percheron

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Guides and articles for horse owners.

How Long Do Horses Live? Horse Lifespan by Care, Health, and Use

Most domestic horses live 25 to 30 years, according to the Merck Veterinary Manual, and plenty now reach their 30s with good care. A well-kept miniature horse can live past 40. Where a particular horse lands in that range has less to do with luck than most owners assume, and more to do with a […]

Horse Stud Fees: What Breeding a Mare Really Costs

A horse stud fee is what a stallion’s owner charges to breed him to your mare. There is no fixed rate and no published national scale. In the Thoroughbred world, commercial fees are advertised openly and swing from a few thousand dollars for a regional sire to six figures for a leading one, but across […]

When a Horse Dies: Burial, Cremation, Costs, and Paperwork

Losing a horse is one of the hardest days in an owner’s life, and it usually arrives with practical decisions that cannot wait. The widely cited cost figures for horse aftercare come from a university extension summary published in 2019, and they are best used as rough order-of-magnitude guides rather than today’s prices: basic cremation […]

How Much Does Horse Boarding Cost? Full Board, Pasture, and Self-Care Prices

There is no trustworthy national price for horse boarding, and you should be skeptical of any page that hands you one to the dollar, including the illustrative figures below. The one solid, sourced anchor available here is regional: the Rutgers Equine Science Center puts New Jersey board anywhere from $250 to $1,500 a month depending […]

Horse Boarding Contracts: What to Include (and Watch For)

A good horse boarding contract does one simple thing: it writes down who is responsible for what, before anyone is upset or a horse is hurt. At minimum it should name the parties and the horse, spell out the board type and exactly which services are included, set the monthly fee and late-payment terms, grant […]

How Much Does a Horse Weigh, and How to Estimate It

A light riding horse usually weighs about 900 to 1,300 pounds, ponies weigh far less (often 400 to 800 pounds, minis less still), and heavy draft horses can reach roughly 1,800 to 2,200 pounds or more. If you do not have a livestock scale, the most reliable at-home estimate comes from a simple measuring-tape formula: […]

Core Horse Vaccines: Rabies, Tetanus, EEE/WEE, and West Nile

Every horse, no matter where it lives or what it does, should get four core vaccines: rabies, tetanus, Eastern and Western equine encephalomyelitis (EEE/WEE), and West Nile virus. The American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) defines these four as core because they protect against diseases that are widespread, often fatal, and in the case of […]

Horse Shelter and Run-In Sheds: What Horses Actually Need

Most healthy horses do not need a closed, heated barn. What they need is a way to get out of wind, driving rain and snow, hot sun, and biting insects, while still breathing fresh air and moving around. For most owners that means a simple three-sided run-in shed opening onto turnout, not a horse shut […]

Laminitis in Horses: Causes, Warning Signs, and Prevention

Laminitis is a painful, potentially crippling failure of the laminae, the interlocking tissues that suspend the coffin bone inside the hoof capsule. When those laminae become inflamed and weaken, the bony column of the leg is no longer held firmly in place, and in severe cases the coffin bone rotates or sinks toward the sole. […]

Horse Hoof Care: Farrier Schedule, Trimming, and Thrush

Most horses need a farrier or trimmer every 6 to 8 weeks, because the hoof wall grows down from the coronet at roughly a quarter inch (about 6 to 10 mm) a month and quickly loses balance if left too long. That cycle stretches or shortens with the season, the horse’s growth rate, and the […]

How Much Hay a Horse Needs (and How to Choose It)

Most horses need roughly 1.5 to 2 percent of their bodyweight per day in forage, which for a typical 1,000 lb horse works out to about 15 to 20 lb of hay when there is no pasture. That number is the starting point, not the final answer: you adjust it down for grass turnout and […]

Horse Gestation: How Long a Mare Is Pregnant

A mare is pregnant for about 340 days, roughly 11 months, though a healthy foal can arrive anywhere in a normal window of about 320 to 370 days. There is no single “due date” that every mare hits, so it is smarter to plan for a foaling window than to circle one day on the […]

Horse Fly Control: Sprays, Masks, Sheets, and Traps

Effective horse fly control is not one product, it is an integrated program: clean up the manure and standing water where flies breed, put physical barriers on the horse (masks, sheets, boots, ear nets), use repellent sprays and spot-ons on top of that, and knock down the barn population with traps, fans, feed-through larvicides, and […]

Horse Fencing: Board, Vinyl, Wire, and Electric

Safe horse fencing has to do two jobs at once: keep horses in and keep them uninjured. Because horses are flighty and thin skinned, the fence itself is a hazard if a spooked horse can hit it, get a hoof through it, or run into wire it never saw. The best options are wood board […]

What to Feed a Horse: Forage, Hay, Grain, and Ration Basics

A horse should eat mostly forage, roughly 1.5 to 2.5 percent of its body weight in dry matter every day, with hay or pasture making up at least half the ration and always the base of it. Feed by weight, not by the scoop or coffee can, offer forage before any grain, keep clean water […]

Deworming Horses: Fecal Egg Counts and Strategic Rotation

Modern horse deworming has moved away from blindly rotating dewormers every couple of months on the calendar. The current best practice, laid out in the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) Internal Parasite Control Guidelines, is to run a fecal egg count (FEC) on each adult horse once or twice a year, use that number […]

Horse Teeth and Floating: Why, When, and How Often

Most horses need a dental exam at least once a year. A horse’s cheek teeth erupt continuously and wear unevenly, so sharp enamel points and hooks build up along the edges and cut into the cheeks and tongue. “Floating” is the routine filing that files those points back down. Young horses shedding baby teeth and […]

Colic in Horses: Signs, Prevention, and When to Call the Vet

Colic is a catch-all term for abdominal pain in horses, and it is one of the most common medical emergencies you will ever face as an owner. The core rule is simple: if your horse is pawing, rolling, looking at its flank, off its feed, or otherwise acting like its belly hurts, treat it as […]

Body Condition Scoring Horses: The Henneke 1 to 9 Scale

Body condition scoring is a standardized way to judge how much fat a horse is carrying, using the Henneke system, a 1 to 9 scale where 1 is emaciated and 9 is extremely fat. You assess six specific areas both by eye and by hand, then average them. Most horses are healthy in the 4 […]

Foaling: Signs of Labor, the Stages, and a Foaling Kit

Most mares foal quietly, at night, and without help, but the small window when things go wrong is the reason experienced breeders sit up watching. The signs a mare is close include a filling udder over the final weeks, a waxy plug at the teat ends 24 to 48 hours out, relaxed muscles around the […]

How Much Does a Horse Cost? Purchase Price and Real Yearly Cost

The honest answer to “how much does a horse cost” comes in two parts, and the part most people focus on is the smaller one. The purchase price can run anywhere from free or a few hundred dollars for a grade or rescue horse to tens of thousands of dollars (and far more) for a […]