Horse age
You tell the age of any horse by examining horses teeth.
As the horse ages, its incisors or front teeth, slope more and their surface markings change.
Surface markings are also known as tables and exhibit three features.
1 – An outer ring of enamel
2 – A broad line of ivory in the centre
3 – A ring of enamel called central enamel, with the line of dark crusta inside it.
When I was a small child, my father would recite a lovely poem about the age of horses.
Equine teeth
The poem he taught me I will share with you. As for the author, unfortunately I don’t know who it is.
To tell the age of any horse
Inspect the lower jaw of course
The six front teeth will tell the tale
Of any fear and dispel
Two middle nippers he behold
Before the colt is two weeks old
Before eight weeks two more will come
Eight months the corners cut the gum
The outside grooves will disappear
From middle two in just a year
In two years from the second pair
In three years the “corners” too are bare
At two the middle “nippers” drop
At three the second pair can’t stop
When four year old the third pair goes
At five a full new set he shows
The deep black spots will pass from view
At six years from the middle two
The second pair at seven years
At eight the sport each corner clears
From middle “nippers” upper jaw
At nine the black spots will withdraw
The second pair at ten are bright
Eleven finds the corners light
As times goes on the horseman know
The oval teeth three-sided grow
They longer get, project before
Till twenty-one, we care no more
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Aging horse teeth
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