Yeah, the teeth are a long way from the hooves. But, as equine car professionals, farriers ought to know a little more about horses than just how to mount them on iron. So Millwater's Farriery: The Illustrated Dictionary of Horseshoeing and Hoofcare includes quite a few entries on fundamental horsemanship, and this chart on basic aging of horses by teeth.
The base images were recycled from a couple of 19th Century books. I had to modify them extensively to depict the key features I wanted to illustrate. I started to draw them from scratch myself, but I'm already wearing my drawing table out with diagrams for the laminitis/founder anchor article... And I really liked the look of these old drawings.
Of course, the print file is much higher resolution than what I'm posting online.
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By the way... You can view a larger version of the image by clicking on it. And (in most browsers) blow that image page up with ctrl+
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