2007-02-20 11:42:23 · 11 answers · asked by marcopollo 1 in Sports ➔ Horse Racing
No. A foal is a baby horse. As it grows up, that horse will have different names: foal, weanling, yearling, colt or filly (whichever is its gender), then mare or stallion or gelding (again, depending on the gender). Those terms just refer to the age of the horse. It's a foal while it is still with its mother, a weanling after it has been taken away from its mother (usually by 6 months) up to a year, then it is called a yearling usually until it is 2 when it generally becomes a colt or filly. After that the horse is called a mare, stallion, or gelding for the rest of its life.
A pony is a small horse... it refers to the type of horse and has nothing to do with age. There are miniature horses which are very small (up to 38 inches), then ponies (up to 14.2 hands), then horses (over 14.2 hands).
Baby ponies are also called foals, weanlings, yearlings... those terms apply to any type of horse because all horses go through the aging process. A lot of times people will specify when mentioning the age of a pony by clarifying that it is a "pony yearling" or a "pony mare" because the general assumption with the terms is to think of a horse when you just hear yearling or mare by itself.
So they're not the same. Foal = baby. Pony = permanently small horse.
2007-02-20 13:34:38 · answer #1 · answered by kmnmiamisax 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The difference between a horse and pony is simple. A pony is a horse that stands under 15h and a foal is a new born horse or pony
2007-02-20 19:13:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. A foal is a new born and a pony is a young horse. Perhaps the difference between an infant and a baby.
2007-02-20 11:47:56 · answer #3 · answered by Just Me 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
All i'm able to imagine of is all the failings which will pass incorrect in case you probably did that. A 4-month previous colt is a touch one, and no count number how a lot desensitizing you do, there are one of those huge quantity of issues that ought to scare it. The foal would attempt to run off, and if it does ensue to get loose, then what? The foal will be in a blind run, then the mare receives disillusioned...the foal ought to run into someone or some thing and get heavily injured. you even ought to appreciate that regardless of in case you've self belief your horse, you could't be positive that the spectators will comprehend sufficient to stay away. Small youthful ones or regardless of will see a touch one horse and decide to expire and puppy it (trust me, I used to journey my pony in parades and it got here about for all time). It also ought to rigidity out your mare to have her toddler in one of those scary position..regardless of if she's in many circumstances superb, she will be very annoying and frightened being in a topic the position she thinks her toddler would get harm..
2016-12-04 10:44:59 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no!Ponys are smaller versions of a horse and well allways be a pony but a foal is like a baby campered to an adult!The foal will grow up!
2007-02-21 02:50:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
no a pony is a type of horse and a foal is a baby horse.
2007-02-20 14:16:08 · answer #6 · answered by *Ruffian* 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they aren't. A "pony" is a type of small, but full-grown, horse. A foal is a newborn horse, regardless of breed or size.
2007-02-20 11:51:00 · answer #7 · answered by Old Dawg 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
pony is just a way horse people say short horse
foal is a baby horse
a draft horse foal can be bigger than some full grown ponies
2007-02-21 03:51:31 · answer #8 · answered by luv4horses 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no pony is small and a foal grows up
2007-02-21 01:58:54 · answer #9 · answered by jerry 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no, foals are new born equines and ponies are equines that are smaller then 15hh when fully grown.
2007-02-20 21:36:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋