Learning About Horses - Horse Life Cycle

Horse Life Cycle - Birth to Weaning 

Different horses develop in slightly different ways - but these are the general age guidelines. The average lifespan of a horse is 25-30 years. A senior horse that reaches 36 years old is roughly the equivalent of 103 in human years!

Fetus - A horse is a fetus for 340 days inside its mother.

Foal - Birth to Weaning a horse is with its mother from birth to about 4 (3-6) months.

Weanling - a horse is a weanling once it is weaned from its mother at about 4 months of age until about 10 months. 

Yearling - a horse is a yearling from 10 months until about 23 months (2 years old)

Adolescent - a horse is an adolescent from 2 years until they are 5 years old (in the horse world called an adult)

Adult - a horse is an adult from 6 years until about 14

Senior - a horse is an senior from 15 years to 25 years old

Elderly- a horse is elderly 26+ (in the horse world called a senior)

We can use physical and mental responses that horses and humans have to compare them to each other. 

The first year of a horse's life they mature a lot. They are like a 9 year old human. They are still kids but are ready to do a lot more learning. 

Here are some of the Oldest Horses

Shayne, Irish Draught/Thoroughbred cross, 51 years old

Orchid, Thoroughbred/Arabian cross, 50 years old.

Badger: Arabian/Welsh cross, 51 years old.

Sugar Puff: Shetland/Exmoor pony cross, 56 years old.

Old Billy: draft horse, 62 years old.

Lilly's Growth and Development

Lilly as a Fetus inside her Mom Lucky September 22, 2019

Lilly as a NewBorn Foal  April 26, 2020

Lilly 1 month May 26, 2020

Lilly 2 months June 26, 2020

Lilly 3 months July 26, 2020

Lilly 4 months August 26, 2020

Lilly 5 months  September 26, 2020

Lilly 6 months October 26, 2020

Lilly 7 months November 26, 2020

Lilly 8 months December 26, 2020

Lilly 10  months January 26, 2021

Lilly 11 months  February 26, 2021

Lilly 12 months March 26, 2021

Lilly 1 Year April 26, 2021