Big Jake was declared the largest horse in the world on January 19, 2010, with a height of 2 meters and 10 cm at the withers. The official measurement was made at Smokey Hollow Farms in Poynette , Wisconsin , USA, thus setting a new Guinness World Record. Discover now all our trips, tours, holidays and horse trekking in the USA. It is a eleven-year-old Belgian horse, kind and playful, a bit like all giants par excellence after all. Its owner, Jerry Gilbert , who lives in Ostego in the USA, says that as a foal it already weighed 109kg at birth and has now reached the remarkable weight of 1180kg !! The huge Big Jake eats a bale and a half of hay a day and rests in a box of more than 6 meters by 6.
Rinselvatichiti is the right term for those animals that belong to domestic species but, for various reasons, have lived free for several generations, have lost contact with humans, have stable characteristics and live in a defined area …. this is the case of the horses of Aveto, in Liguria. Discover now all our trips, turs, […]
Originally from the Dutch province of Friesland (from which it takes its name), the Friesian horse belongs to one of the oldest breeds in Europe, so old that it’s said to have existed for over 3000 years. The Friesian horse was already known to the ancient Romans and, during the Middle Ages, it was used […]