Three Components Of A Horse's Body

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Within this experiment the key focus was to find out the difference between the three components of blood, red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets. The horse’s body consists on average 54.5 litres of blood which carries oxygen around the horse’s body. Blood contains a wide range of nutrients that are needed to ensure that the horse’s body is healthy and can fight off any infections that may occur. There are many functions that take place within the body using blood such as it is needed to regulate the horse’s body temperature and ph level. Blood removes waste products out of the horse’s body and has many hormones within it and blood is needed to hydrate cells.
Red blood cells are also known as erythrocytes the main purpose of red blood