How many hooves does Santa's reindeer have?

Answer 1

The question is unclear as many people use "hoof" differently. Some use it to mean the entire foot, while others use it to mean just the toes. Reindeer have 2 large toes and 2 small toes on each foot.

If you are using "hooves" to mean feet, they each have four, just as any other reindeer would. Total, that's 32 hooves, unless you count Rudolph, which would make it 36.

If you mean hoof as a modified nail at the end of a toe, then if you count Rudolph, then there would be 144 hooves.. Reindeer have four toes on each foot, and each toe ends in a nail. Thus each reindeer has 16 hooves. The only animals which have only four hooves per animal are equines, who have only one toe per foot.

Answer 2

There are 9 reindeer pulling Santa's sleight, and each reindeer has four hooves. So 9 times 4 is thirty six so thirty six hooves pulling Santa's sleigh.

Another Answer:There were eight tiny reindeer in "A Visit from St. Nicholas", also known as "The Night Before Christmas," the original poem. Each has four hooves so that would make 32 hooves.

A hundred and some years later, in an advertising story for Montgomery Ward department stores stores, Rudolph appeared. Some now feel he's officially become one of Santa's reindeer. So if you count him there are four more making a total of 36 hooves.

Answer 3

There were eight tiny reindeer in the original poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", also known as "The Night Before Christmas." Each has four hooves so that would make 32 hooves.

A hundred and some years later, in an advertising story for Montgomery Ward department stores stores, Rudolph appeared. Some now feel he's officially become one of Santa's reindeer. So if you count him there are four more making a total of 36 hooves.

Answer 4

You might think 32, but then a hoof is a modified nail at the end of a toe and Reindeer have four on each foot, 16 per animal, 8 animals, so 128 in all. (Rudolph does not count, only in the song)

Answer 5

There was 36 reindeer hoofs.