How much does the horse live at home and in nature?

It is considered that the most suitable for animals are natural conditions. Some particularly impressionable people think that only there they live happily ever after. Is it really?

Do you know how much the horse lives at home and in nature? First, let's look at the stable content. The books contain information about 18-20 years, but experienced horse breeders say that the horse can live much longer.

From the point of view of biology, the maximum age of an animal is approximately six to seven times greater than the time it takes to reach physiological maturity, after which the body completely ceases to grow.

So how long does the horse live in this case? Considering that her body ceases to grow in six years, theoretically age can be 36 years!

Legends say that some stallions reached an amazing age of 60, but more or less reliable documentary sources contain information only about 40 years. Of course, in many respects, how much the horse lives depends on the conditions of its maintenance. So, a working peasant mare is unlikely to last at least 20 years.

It is not necessary to consider that stallions can only be stallions or only mare. At the University of Berlin, the skeleton of the stallion of the famous emperor Frederick II is on display. Biologists have proved that the age of the animal at the time of his death was 40 years.

The scientist Smith N. wrote about the mare, whose age was 46 years, moreover, during this time she gave birth to more than 35 foals. However, how much the horse lives, to a large extent depends on the breed and thoroughbred horse.

A vivid example of this can serve as the domestic horse Budynok. It was a thoroughbred racehorse, which for all its years of "service" managed to establish not one world record.

He lived to the venerable age at the age of 32, the last several years he was on "pension", while he was at the full content of one of the stables at the academy of KI. Scriabin.

By the way, how many horses live for years, if they flow in Arabic blood? The famous mares of the Terek stud farm (Tarash, Sahara and Strada) survived till the age of 31. Gifted by the Egyptian authorities, the stallion Raafat, who also lived in the stables of the Terek stud farm, lived to be 29 years old.

Once again, we recall that in the ancient manuscripts of the same Arabs there is information about even more "durable" animals, which sometimes experienced their master, or even two.

We have not accidentally spent so much time considering the issues of longevity of the pedigree horses, for which a man looks after. This was done for a better comparison with their wild relatives.

Of course, there are very few of the latter, but a lot of information about this issue was left by naturalists who lived in the recent past.

So how much does an average horse live in an environment? In this case, the period of her life depends on a number of factors: diseases, predators and simply accidents and injuries.

Naturalists pointed out that up to the age of 13-15 years, only every tenth stallion lived, and with mares the situation was even more sad.

Domesticated horses began to live much longer. The development of modern pharmaceuticals suggests that new record holders will soon appear.