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In the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Unexpected", Trip Tucker becomes pregnant with the offspring of a female of another species, described late in the chapter, set in mid-22nd century, as being "the first recorded instance of a human male pregnancy". In the video game The Sims 2 male characters can be impregnated via cheat codes or alien ...
When young horses reach breeding maturity, the terms change: a filly over three (four in horse racing) is called a mare, and a colt over three is called a stallion. A castrated male horse is called a gelding regardless of age; however, colloquially, the term "gelding colt" is sometimes used until a young gelding is three or four.
The male parent of a horse, a stallion, is commonly known as the sire and the female parent, the mare, is called the dam. [1] Both are genetically important, as each parent genes can be existent with a 50% probability in the foal. Contrary to popular misuse, "colt" refers to a young male horse only; "filly" is a young female.
On horses, the mane is the hair that grows from the top of the neck of a horse or other equine, reaching from the poll to the withers, and includes the forelock or foretop. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] : 247 [ 3 ] : 311 It is thicker and coarser than the rest of the horse's coat, and naturally grows to roughly cover the neck.
Whether a horse visually appears to have the frame pattern or not, testing horses of frame or "overo" lineage is highly recommended. The statistical likelihood of producing a living, frame-patterned foal by crossing two frames is 50%, the same odds of producing a living, frame-patterned foal from a frame-to-nonframe breeding which carries no ...
A yearling is a young horse either male or female that is between one and two years old. [1] Yearlings are comparable in development to a very early adolescent and are not fully mature physically. While they may be in the earliest stages of sexual maturity, they are considered too young to be breeding stock.
Individual male horses (2 C, 101 P) Pages in category "Male horses" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
A horse with a long, thick forelock The forelock [ 1 ] or foretop is a part of a horse 's mane , that grows from the animal's poll and falls forward between the ears and onto the forehead. Some breeds, particularly pony breeds, [ 2 ] have a naturally thick forelock, while other breeds, such as many Thoroughbreds , have a thinner forelock.