{"id":648,"date":"2022-02-26T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thehorsesguide.com\/?p=648"},"modified":"2022-02-01T17:17:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T17:17:29","slug":"explaining-horse-years-to-human-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehorsesguide.com\/explaining-horse-years-to-human-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Explaining Horse Years to Human Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
You will find a profound fondness for horses from the old to the young, which leads to the curiosity of comparing horse years to human years. The research was done and completed in 2003 by equine veterinarians to compare human ages to horse ages. The research would greatly help compare human to horse years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
How do horses age? Fact is, horses and humans mature and age at very different rates. The comparisons made were simply estimates and should not be taken too seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The chart below explains how the two compare to try and understand horse years to human years:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Did you know that comparing cat and dog years to humans instead of a horse to human years is easy? The reason is horse years, compared to human years, depend wholly on life expectancy. Ponies or horse years are not based on their birth years. Therefore you will only consider the years of this animal exclusively based on its life expectancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When animals and humans reach their entire life span, they will do so at very different rates. The equine is no different. That is why there was a need to establish a horse-to-human years converter. Experts have tried to establish an obvious, straightforward conversion to human years; it’s virtually impossible to get the exact conversion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When a human is a year old, the foal is 6.5 human years. At two years, the yearling’s human years are 13 years. At this point, the calculation of its age seems clear until the horse reaches three years of age, then it gets a bit complicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At three, one horse’s year is equivalent to 2.5 human years. So working with this understanding, how old are horses in human years when they are 5? A 5-year-old horse is the equivalent of a 23-year-old human. The horse’s aging rate slows down at ten years, but it’s still faster than the human aging rate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This aging rate is maintained for the rest of the horse’s lifetime. At 17 years, your pony is now in the senior class. Therefore, at 17, its horse age in human years is 53, and a 26-year-old horse equates to a senior of 78 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What if a 35-year-old horse? It will be the same age as an elderly chap of 98 years. Just as humans who live this long are considered very fortunate, age is incredibly high for a horse, and most don’t get there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Keep in mind that horses mature at a higher and different rate than humans. For instance, at the age of 1, a human infant can’t even feed itself and is wholly dependent on its parent, whereas a foal will imitate its mother’s nibbling habits moments after birth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A child can’t walk until they are about one year old, whereas a horse will wobble in its baby steps until it’s stable enough a few moments after birth. They experience factors that affect their growth rate just like humans. It’s therefore vital not to take this very literally because of this.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHorse Years<\/td> Human Years<\/td><\/tr> 1<\/td> 6.5<\/td><\/tr> 2<\/td> 13<\/td><\/tr> 3<\/td> 18<\/td><\/tr> 4<\/td> 20.5<\/td><\/tr> 5<\/td> 23<\/td><\/tr> 6<\/td> 25.5<\/td><\/tr> 7<\/td> 28<\/td><\/tr> 8<\/td> 30.5<\/td><\/tr> 9<\/td> 33<\/td><\/tr> 10<\/td> 35.5<\/td><\/tr> 11<\/td> 38<\/td><\/tr> 12<\/td> 40.5<\/td><\/tr> 13<\/td> 43<\/td><\/tr> 14<\/td> 45.5<\/td><\/tr> 15<\/td> 48<\/td><\/tr> 16<\/td> 50.5<\/td><\/tr> 17<\/td> 53<\/td><\/tr> 18<\/td> 55.5<\/td><\/tr> 19<\/td> 58<\/td><\/tr> 20<\/td> 60.5<\/td><\/tr> 21<\/td> 63<\/td><\/tr> 22<\/td> 65.5<\/td><\/tr> 23<\/td> 68<\/td><\/tr> 24<\/td> 70.5<\/td><\/tr> 25<\/td> 73<\/td><\/tr> 26<\/td> 75.5<\/td><\/tr> 27<\/td> 78<\/td><\/tr> 28<\/td> 80.5<\/td><\/tr> 29<\/td> 83<\/td><\/tr> 30<\/td> 85.5<\/td><\/tr> 31<\/td> 88<\/td><\/tr> 32<\/td> 90.5<\/td><\/tr> 33<\/td> 93<\/td><\/tr> 34<\/td> 95.5<\/td><\/tr> 35<\/td> 98<\/td><\/tr> 36<\/td> 100.5<\/td><\/tr> 37<\/td> 103<\/td><\/tr> 38<\/td> 105.5<\/td><\/tr> 39<\/td> 108<\/td><\/tr> 40<\/td> 110.5<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n