The age of a horse is determined by observing its teeth, because the adult male horse has 40 and the female 36 (because of missing brackets) as’ distributed: 12 molars, 12 premolars, 4 bands, 12 incisors, which are also divided into: 2 Picozzi, 2 median and 2 cantons (or lateral). The spaces between the incisors and the premolars are called bars.

When sprout the first front teeth the horse reaches its first birthday. At 4 years there are 8 and 5 there are 12. Given that his life expectancy is around 25/30 years, to estimate the ‘age’ is based on the wear of the teeth that starts from ‘age’ of 8 years. Indeed, if the chewing is a continuous consumption of the dental board, but is offset by a steady growth of the tooth.

Then you can determine with accuracy the discreet age of the horse according to the shape of the board of dental lower incisors.

Popularity: 23% [?]