Show appearance as guide in telling age of animals general appearance is the best guide for age in hogs and poultry with horses cattle and sheep their age may be told with a fair degree of accuracy by their teeth however this requires experience and various factors states a writer in the rural new yorker with horses the first pair upper and lower of their front teeth are up and in wear at from two and one half to five years of age the other two pairs of incisors come in one year later for each pair so the horse is full mouthed at five years the cups indicate the age from then on starting with wear at six years for the lower center incisors and advancing progressively one year for the others general appearance slope and shape of the surface are of f importance also the horses teeth are egg shaped from side to side when young at nine th the S surface uri is s about round and then I 1 becomes elliptical from front to rear after eleven years general appearance is the only guide |