EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -horses. Young horses are known as foals; male foals are called colts and females fillies .

Detailed explanation-2: -A foal is the term we use for baby horses. Male foals are called colts and female foals are called fillies.

Detailed explanation-3: -A foal is an equine up to one year old; this term is used mainly for horses, but can be used for donkeys. More specific terms are colt for a male foal and filly for a female foal, and are used until the horse is three or four. When the foal is nursing from its dam (mother), it may also be called a “suckling".

Detailed explanation-4: -Foal: A horse of either sex less than one year old. • Yearling: A horse of either sex that is between one and two years old. • Colt: A male horse under the age of four.

Detailed explanation-5: -A mare is pregnant. When the mare is foaling, she is actually in labor and giving birth. We say, “A mare foaled” when she gives birth. The foal is the young horse after birth. The newborn male is a colt and the new born female is a filly.