What is a horses life cycle?

Answer 1

1. A stallion and a mare mate

2. The mare gets pregnant

3. The Mare foals

4. The foal grows into a horse

5. Depending on gender, steps 2-3 will happen again

6. The horse passes away

7. The cycle starts over again

Answer 2

The baby horse, aslo known as a foal, starts as a colt (male baby horse) or filly (female baby horse). During the first 12 months the colt/filly has long legs compared to its body. After two months the colt/filly sheds its milk hairs. Two months later it would stop drinking milk from its dam (mother). After it has passed drinking milk from it's dam, it is considered a yearling.At 12 months the foal becomes a yearling, also known as a young horse. At 12 months the yearling is still uncoordinated in movements, and quite leggy, but their frame is beginning to fill out. This is an ongoing process until maturity, when it's hind quarters, or croup, are in line with it's withers, the part right below the neck. The last parts of growth are the epiphyses or the growth plates on the very long bones of the legs. Until these are closed, the horse isn't able to keep working because they are too weak. This happens particularly when they are under weight, without the risk of the legs being damaged. The epiphysis is located at the end of the cannon bone, over the fetlock joint, an\ usually is closed in the middle of nine and twelve months.Once it hits the 6th year of its life, it becomes a fully grown horse. By then the horse is fully formed. After this stage it goes on to Late years when the joints might become puffy as the circulation might become lass effective. Then the effects of work will start to show. This is the horse life cycle.extra fun facts about a horse

A foal that is 2 to 3 weeks overdue may be born with teeth other foals may not get teeth until they are three weeks old. As it gets older, the horse grows teeth. By the time the foal is six to nine months, the young horse has all of it's milk teeth. At five to six years of age, the horse replaces it's milk teeth with it's permanent teeth. You can tell how old a horse is by it's teeth. When it becomes older it becomes even easier to tell because of the "Galvayne Groove" on the corner of the incisor of the upper jaw.