What are differences between cows and horses?

Answer 1

A horse will eat a few more lbs more than a cow would per day. But this all depends on the size/weight of the horse and what it is being used for. It also depends on the size, breeding and weight of the cow, and what each animal species are fed. A big horse typically will eat more than a small cow; a horse being used for ranching, draft work, etc., will always eat more than a cow of the same body weight.

Answer 2

No, they do not!! In many cases the nutritional and dietary requirements between horses and cows are polar opposites, even though some or most of the same feeds are fed to either species, as is their bodily responses when fed the same feedstuffs. For instance, a horse in poor-quality hay will defecate more than if he were on a good-quality hay. It is the exact opposite for a cow: she will defecate less often and in smaller amounts if she is on poor-quality hay than if she were on a good-quality hay. Also, it will literally make a horse deathly ill if he were fed moldy hay, but not a cow. Horses cannot be fed ionophores if on a high-grain diet because they will get very sick and die, but cows can be fed ionophores with no ill effects.

The reason for such differences lie in the disparging dissimilarities between the digestive systems of a cow and a horse: A cow is a ruminant with four chambers which make up her stomach, whereas a horse is a non-ruminant (specifically a monogastric) with a functional cecum. Cows are fore-gut fermentors whereas horses are hind-gut fermenters. Thus, the way a ruminant nutritionist goes about formulating a ration for a herd of cows is much different from the way an equine nutritionist formulates a ration for a single or herd of horses.

Answer 3

Cows and horses are alike because they both are mammals with hooves and both of them live in fields

Answer 4

They are both livestock.

They Both have hooves

They both are mammals

They can both have the same coloring.