I see a lot of posts which suggest that people expect their horses to live into their late twenties or thirties. My experience over more than forty years has been that most horses are dead long before this for one reason or another.Can we do a poll? I'll keep count because the poll feature on the forum isn't up to the job.So, if you can spare the time, can you list the age of all the horses you've known when they died, and whose age you are sure about when they died, and we'll count up what's actually 'normal.Please don't include small ponies, which often live a lot longer than horses, or foals. Or horses in jump racing, where the death rate is far higher than any other horse activity and will skew the figures. Please only include horses you knew personally, whether owned by you or not. I think this is important, so that people who lose their horses earlier don't feel they have failed in some way.So I'll start.1. 202. 43. 104. 85. 116. 267. 78. 89. 1610. 1311. 712. 5So the average age of death of all the horses I have known die has been 13ish. I've had the impression for some years now that the average across the country is about 15. Thanks for your help.
01-21-2018, 08:14 PM
What is a 'normal' age to lose a horse?
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