
03/19/2025
Foaling season is here! Our friend Linus is helping demonstrate that foals are born without incisors. Foals’ deciduous, AKA baby, incisors erupt in stages over the first 6 months of life. From the age of 2 ½ to 4 ½, horses develop their permanent incisors and lose their baby incisors as the larger adult teeth take their place.
Foals have 12 cheek teeth, just half of the 24 cheek teeth they will have as an adult. Over the next few years of life, horses will wear through their deciduous cheek teeth and erupt adult teeth in their place. During this time, horses will also develop their adult molars to give them a full complement of 24 cheek teeth. There are no “baby” molars, so no deciduous teeth are shed as young horses erupt their molars.
Baby Linus is 13 now and very proud to show that he has made a beautiful set of adult teeth!