Horses Can be Overweight Too

Obesity is likely to be just as common in horses as it is in the human population. A University of Nottingham study found that at least one in five leisure horses was overweight or obese. Owners were likely to underestimate their horse’s body condition score. Body Condition Scoring (BCS) is a system of evaluating a…

When Were Horses Domesticated?

A genetic study of horses across Eastern Europe and Central Asia has traced the domestication of horses to wide-open grasslands shared by Ukraine, southwest Russia and Kazakhstan. Horse genetics is the science of heredity as applied to horses. Heredity is the reason for the similarity between parents and their offspring. Researchers generally date the domestication…