New Tooth

Hi everyone it’s your favourite pony Pilgrim, here to let you know what has been happening at the Calvert Trust Exmoor Stables.

Do you remember me telling you about Milo, one of our newer horses here? Well he is now 6 years old and to celebrate being 6 he's had a new tooth come through. This new tooth is called a canine, but it's nothing to do with dogs!

A female horse has 40 teeth and male horse has 42, this is because a male horse has two extra canine teeth. The front teeth are called incisors, these are the teeth that do the biting and the back teeth are called molars which are the teeth that do the chewing.

Although it’s normal for male horses to grow canine teeth (they use them in the wild for fighting) it meant that lucky Milo got a few days off in the sunshine to allow time for the new teeth to come through.

Milo