Horse Gestation

When I was very young and heard the rhyme, "Shoe the horse, and shoe the mare, but let the little colt go bare." I wondered why fillies were left out of it. Of course I knew everything about horses back then, and knew that properly, a colt was a male baby horse. How could the creator of this saying not know that 'foal' was the proper term they should have used. (Smug little critter wasn't I?) But the confusion is common and colt is quite often misused when talking about a baby horse. Here are the definitions of colt, filly and foal, so you'll know which word to use to specify which type of horse baby you're talking about (or just in case my 40 years younger alter ego is wandering around).

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Horse Words of the Week: Foal, Colt, Filly originally appeared on About.com Horses on Tuesday, February 1st, 2011 at 05:13:07.

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