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How old is a mare before she gets her bridal teeth?  Keith be careful on this one....

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Aren't the wolf teeth, and caps usually out by 5-6 years of age ?  As to bridal teeth... Hmmm

This is a question that seperates the real horseman and cowboys from the wanna bes...

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Bridle probably around the 5th year, maybe a little earlier.  Either that, or after the wedding. Thing with Horsedontists in the old days, is that they were always quick to pull the caps..

aAfter she gets married  LOL

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I think this is a trick question.

Doesn't she need those to catch the bouquet first ?  or am I thinking of a different religion ?  This just raises even mor equestrians in my already foggy head.


(I think I'll go to bed right now, before I become the horses @$$)



Oh man, My sense of humor is starting to sound like Christophers'   Do thing's really go downhill this fast when a person hit's 50 ?


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Ain't no such thing...Stop messing with me. There are wolf teeth and incisers and molars that grow in, fall out and get replaced as the horse matures, but nothing specific to a mare. A male however can get canine teeth unlike most mares.

My last bride is fixing to lose her teeth if she keeps messing with me. She came Sunday while I was at work and cut the fence to "steal" her fresh-cut stallion/gelding.....Cut the fence to be vengful and mean. She knows the neighbor has a key....Anyway, now that that mean a$$ed beast is gone I can finally house additional horses. My buddy's Xmass present Appaloosa that I bought yesterday came first....I'll take my time selecting mine.

So I drove up from work this morning and Appalossa was trying to get tru the fence....He has never been pastured alone and was pitching a fit. So I sent my buddy to get some 6" tall round pen pannels and a Bow gate to pen him up till he calms down and get's used to being alone. I didn't want to buy a round pen just yet, but had no choice.

The extra teeth bottom in the back that only studs get my grandpa called bridle teeth.
 So the answer is they dont

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A few females get them too, but not all that many.....In some studs they can be extremely long and sharp and tend to develop when he is 3-4 years old and really feeling like a man.

I'm glad her freshly gelded stud is gone. He bit me on my upper arm last week as I passed by the gate. I had on a heavy coat but it still tore the flesh on my upper arm.

I think about then Id been in gelding stage #2

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Yehaw! Problem solved.....Panels installed out front of barn like a corral. He is inside and very much calmer. He can ease in and out of barn into small corral area and duck in barn when he feels spooked. We will leave him there for a week or so until he gains some confidence and take him out each day to work with him.

Now I can relax.

Karyoker, I'll send you some pics as soon as I see if the almost ex left my camera, heh, heh.

The answer is usually between 4-5 years (following the incisors). *IF* the bridle teeth (canines) are going to come in on a mare.

I didn't have a clue, and I might very well have a poor source of info. This is the source my info came from..  Actually one of two sources...

(Equineestates.com/library/caredental) -  0r something like that


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A mare may have between 36-40, because mares are less likely to have canine (bridle) teeth.

The following chart shows the approximate ages at which different teeth erupt. By referring to it, you may detect potential abnormalities of your own horse associated with teething.

Deciduous (Baby Teeth)

1st incisors (centrals) Birth or 1st week
2nd incisors (intermediates) 4-6 weeks
3rd incisors (corners) 6-9 months
1st, 2nd & 3rd premolars Birth or first 2 weeks for all premolars
(cheek teeth)

Permanent (Adult teeth)

1st incisors (centrals) 2 ? years
2nd incisors (intermediates) 3 ? years
3rd incisors (corners) 4 ? years
Canines (bridle) 4-5 years
Wolf teeth (1st premolar) 5-6 months
2nd premolars (1st cheek teeth) 2 ? years
3rd premolars (2nd cheek teeth) 3 years
4th premolars (3rd cheek teeth) 4 years
1st molars (4th cheek teeth) 9-12 months
2nd molars (5th cheek teeth) 2 years
3rd molars (6th cheek teeth) 3 ? -4 years

Heh, heh....I took the info posted by Steve and did some Google mining.

Turns out as many as 25% of mares grow canines(bridle) teeth...I figured it was only maybe 10%.

I ain't never heard them called bridle teeth but knew fersure mares never grew teeth that stallions didn't...That in fact, it was the stallion who grew teeth that many mares didn't....Canines.

Ok, so i learned something....Canines are sometimes called bridle teeth.

And Karyoker learned that mares grow them too 25% of the time. So his trick question tricked him.

This leads me to ask Karyoker a question....."What on a young horse needs to float, but won't sink if it don't?"...And "What's it take to make it float?"

You got me for awhile but I was googling and this popped up....

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Don't try to distract me with blondes. I prefer dark red haired redheads with pale buttery skin and tatts. Green eyed redheads are the absolute best device ever invented to entertain men.

Back to horse triva questions.....The answer is their teeth need to be floated.

Floating the teeth is a term used to describe the filing down of the sparp edges that tend to form on the outer edges of the molars and the "hooks" that can form elsewhere....If left alone, it makes the horse really sensitive to haltering/bridling and handling cause his inner cheeks get raw and sore or even infected sometimes.

Amazingly, the average horse will allow you to insert a long file in his mouth and let you grind away. He will even bite down on it sometimes to help the process. If he balks at the file, coat it with molassess syrup or use a rusty file. Horses love rusty steel. It tastes sweet to them.

Don't try this on your sharp fanged mate.

Keith how far are you from Branson?  Might make it back down there again this spring or summer...

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Yahoo map Dry Prong Louisiana.

I'm right nearby there.

It's full days drive from here to Branson for a young man in a hurry....It a 3 day drive for any man with a cute date riding along with him. It's a weeks vacation if you are in a handicap converted van.

But It's right next door via Ma Bell or email.

If you come visit, don't make it deep summer. That way we can go fishing or trail riding or both. Otherwise, it's just too danged hot to do anything except talk about it.

I've been wanting to take a deep country week long fishing/camping trip by horseback. It will take some planning and logistics. I figure at least two pack animals and lots of preparation. Or, we can toss a 12 pack in the boat and be there in ten minutes.

just saw this one and y'all are correct.  usually mares don't get "bridle teeth".  only geldings and stallions and usually around the fourth year.  what type of horses do you have?  do you rodeo?

I got into horses this last year when the almost ex bought two that she just had to have and then discovered she had no place to keep them....One was a white Welsh pony gelding and the other a young paint stallion with high dollar blood line.

I knew a little about horses from being around them lots when I grew up in Oklahoma....So I obliged the wife and fenced the place and built a nice barn for her horses and bought a horse trailer.

Then she ticked me off so we split up. Now she has decided she doesn't need horses, so she sold them and got a dog instead.

I decided that I really enjoyed working with horses and seeing how I had everything in place including the trailer, that I would replace her horses with some of my own. But first I had to repay a good friend of mine who help me build the fencing, barn and all the rest. I bought him his choice of horses last Thursday and bought it here where he can use the facitities he helped build for my wife's horses. I gave him a decent saddle and he can now only be found outside with his horse. We were already fishing buddies, now we are also horsing buddies.

Myself, I am looking for a top of the line 4-6 year old gaited paint gelding that needs work but has no bad habits. I also desire a gaited saddle horse for use when me and a date decide to attend a trail ride or camp. We are fortunate to have a large population of quality breeders in the state so I can take my time and carefully select the right ones.

No, I don't rodeo unless you count the times I get kicked, bit, bucked off and thrown around here at my place. But I fersure miss long trail rides and camping by horseback like I was able to do a few times when I was a kid. I really enjoy working a green horse and teaching him to respond. Horses want to please you, all you gotta do is properly communicate with each other. It's the art of communication I find most consuming and challenging.

I also prefer the type of people who work with horses.  My next relationship will be with a gal who has "horse sense" and can share the interest with me. Gals like that tend to be more settled and down to earth and require less soap opera to be content.