Age of a horse

[squarebear]

How can you tell the age of a horse by its teeth?
Is it how many they have, how long they are or something different altogether.
Thanks.

[Quizmonster]

Click here for the answer. Note that the article extends to four pages, so click on the appropriate numbers to go through it.

[squarebear]

Thanks for that. It appears to be a combination of how they look and how many there are.

[cheries]

Hi Squarebear.
The definitive answer is that horse's teeth change quite dramatically with age. As a youngster a horse will only have about half of his full complement of adult teeth. Then a groove known as "Galvyne's Groove" (Think I've spelt that right!!) begins to grow down one side of one of the horse's front teeth. This groove grows down, showing more and more as the horse ages. Then at the age of around 20, the groove disappears as it grows out of the tooth and the horse dentist is left with only the general condition (ie. wear and tear) of the teeth in order to make an estimation of age.
I hope this answers your question.

[squarebear]

It certainly does. Thanks cheries.