Do You Know How To Tell the Age of Your Horse?

It is not that hard to tell the age of your horse.  Really,  it's not!  Just take a look at the horse's teeth and you will be able to get a good idea of his age. 

There is a simple little rhyme that has been around for many, many years.  The author is unknown.  This rhyme always pops into my mind when I am trying to see how old a horse is.

HOW OLD IS YOUR HORSE?

(Author Unknown)

To tell the age of any horse

Inspect the lower jaw of course.

Two middle nippers you'll behold

Before the colt is two weeks old.

Before six weeks two more will come;

Twelve months the corners cut the gum.

At two the middle nippers drop;

At three the second pair can't stop.

At four years old the side pair shows;

At five a full new mouth he grows.

Black spots will pass from view

At six years from the middle two.

The side two pairs at seven years,

And eight will find the corners clear.

The middle nipper, upper jaw,

At nine the black spots will withdraw.

At ten years old the sides are light;

Eleven finds the corners white.

As time goes on the horseman know

The oval teeth three-sided grow.

They longer get, project before,

'Til twenty when we know no more!