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Are horses usually more tired and vulnerable in each molting period?
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∙ 16y ago
The term "molting" applies to animals who have feathers like wild birds and chickens. They go through a period of time when they lose all their feathers and then grow new ones. Since horses do not have feathers they do not "molt". They do shed when it is time to grow either a thicker winter coat or a shorter summer one. Since shedding does not take any extra energy from the horse it does not make them more tired or vulnerable.
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In each molting period horses are more tired and vulnerable than usually?
Horses don't molt. horse do molt i have 1 myself
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In each molting period horses are more tired and vulnerable than usually?
Horses don't molt. horse do molt i have 1 myself
An arthropod is vulnerable to predators during the molting period because?
Its new exoskeleton is soft.
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Effects of egg quality during molting?
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'can Canadian geese fly during their molting period?
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What is the gestation period for the Arabian horse?
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