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| How old would you estimate this horse to be? I met him in August of 2012. The people who owned him before said for him to be around 11/12. After I inspected his teeth. He seemed to be between the age of 13/15, it has now been two years and I have fully owned him almost a year after she sold him to me in feb 2013. He yawned today and I seen the groove was almost all the way down his tooth, which I thought was odd because I thought he was just now around 15. So I grabbed some photo's at feeding time tonight.. I am having his teeth floated later on this year so the vet will give me a either spot on or pretty close guess. But what is your guys thoughts? Sorry about the piece of hay, it ends just about right where it sets. I didn't realize it was there till after Ihad gotten home and looked at the picture.
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| It's a crap shoot. I'll say 18 just for fun. |
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Location: Great NW | I have never been super good at this but I would say mid to upper teens without seeing body shots. |
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Location: Texas | This is an art not a science and there can be a lot of room for error. Once a horse gets over 10 ( I think that's the age) the accuracy of predicting the age will decline. Also you need pictures of the inside of the incisors so we can see the stars Certain breeds can age a little differently and dental care/feed ( pasture horse vs stall) can play into it as well. Disclaimer out of the way. LOL I'm not the best at this he is probably Mid to late teens. I'm guessing 16-18. This is fun we should post some pics of registered horses teeth and see how close we come to the correct age!! |
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Location: Florida.. | post a photo of horse for giggles.. it is hard due to care etc plays into it ..
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Location: Idaho | Having worked with my equine dentist closely, I got quite good at aging horses.
Galvayne's groove occurs on the upper corner incisor, producing a vertical line. Galvayne's groove first appears at the gum line in the center of the tooth when the horse is about 10 years of age. The groove should be ½ way down the tooth when the horse is 15 years old. So I would age this horse around 15/16 years old.
Edited to add. I thought the groove looked more half way then all the way down... but if it is all the way down, you are looking into the late teens to early 20s... from my experience.
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Its hard to tell. Horses teeth can show one age, when there actually another. The way they have lived and been fed and how often they recieve dental care can all play factors in it.. I beleive after age 5 its a guessing game. |
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | flyhperformancehorse - 2014-01-23 6:45 PM Having worked with my equine dentist closely, I got quite good at aging horses.
Galvayne's groove occurs on the upper corner incisor, producing a vertical line. Galvayne's groove first appears at the gum line in the center of the tooth when the horse is about 10 years of age. The groove should be ½ way down the tooth when the horse is 15 years old. So I would age this horse around 15/16 years old.
Edited to add. I thought the groove looked more half way then all the way down... but if it is all the way down, you are looking into the late teens to early 20s... from my experience.
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| Don't really have any recent ones. The one confo shot, was back in August 2012 the others were all from late(almost this year) or this month this year. He's not put together very well. He is pretty straight up in the front end and he has to be on joint supplements or he shows it. He is good for light rides nothing but walking and trotting. He's gonna end up going to my sisters for her kids, as there late Christmas present. I just like to ride and he can't be ridden like I like. So he will do very well for my sisters kids.
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Location: Florida.. | hes cute..17-22? broad spectrum |
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Without seeing a side picture, I would say 15. |
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Location: ohio-in my own little world with pretty ponies :) | Just for spits and giggles....18 |
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Location: Texas | This is funny, last Saturday the vet school hosted a big wet lab for the vet students. One of my blocks was dentistry, and they made it a point to let us know that aging teeth is not very accurate, because horses are living a lot longer. You can age based on incisors when they are young and still have baby teeth, but once all the teeth are in, it's harder to tell. You look at the occluding surface of the tooth as well to see the shape. The older a horse gets, the more round to peg like to triangular the tops of his incisors get. Young to early middle aged horses will have rectangular occluding surfaces to their incisors. But anyway, they said the first thing clients do is want to challenge their "skills" by having them guess the age of their horse, but based on diet, dental care, and just variation from horse to horse it can get fuzzy. |
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| Nevertooold - 2014-01-23 6:58 PM flyhperformancehorse - 2014-01-23 6:45 PM Having worked with my equine dentist closely, I got quite good at aging horses.
Galvayne's groove occurs on the upper corner incisor, producing a vertical line. Galvayne's groove first appears at the gum line in the center of the tooth when the horse is about 10 years of age. The groove should be ½ way down the tooth when the horse is 15 years old. So I would age this horse around 15/16 years old.
Edited to add. I thought the groove looked more half way then all the way down... but if it is all the way down, you are looking into the late teens to early 20s... from my experience. My husband agrees.
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| I don't think he is any older than 15 years old ...
His hook on his corner teeth is formed, galvaynes groove does not appear to be but a little over half way down, angulation of front teeth are not bad and the wearing down of his front bottom teeth also look 15 to me .... |
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| It'd be more accurate if you showed a top view as well, like these. Like casualdust said, you have to look at the shape of the teeth as well.
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Location: NC | flyhperformancehorse - 2014-01-23 6:45 PM Having worked with my equine dentist closely, I got quite good at aging horses.
Galvayne's groove occurs on the upper corner incisor, producing a vertical line. Galvayne's groove first appears at the gum line in the center of the tooth when the horse is about 10 years of age. The groove should be ½ way down the tooth when the horse is 15 years old. So I would age this horse around 15/16 years old.
Edited to add. I thought the groove looked more half way then all the way down... but if it is all the way down, you are looking into the late teens to early 20s... from my experience.
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Location: Jersey Girl | I am going to say 18ish. The galvains grove is almost completely down the tooth. |
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Location: My own little world! | I'll say 17.
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | Without a doubt, this horse is between the ages of 10 and 30. |
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