How to eat like a horse
A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year.
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Healthy as a horse... which horse?
"Even someone who doesn't know much about horses can learn a lot about equine health just by watching the post parade from the stable to the gates during the May 6 Kentucky Derby, says an equine veterinarian at Purdue University."
A healthy horse has a resting heart rate, of 40-45 beats per minute.
The respiratory rate of an adult horse at rest is 8-16 breaths per minute.
A horse's body temperature is between 98 and 101 degrees.
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Puking Horses
Never seen a horse puke? That's because they can't. Horses have no gag reflex and are incapable of throwing up. Sometimes their inability to throw up causes stomach upsets - which can be fatal.