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| ______ ______ is the zoological name for the oldest living species of horse. |
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| What is the normal heart rate for a horse? |
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| What is the normal temperature for a horse? |
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| What is the normal respiration rate for the horse? |
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| Worldwide there are about ____ breeds of horses? |
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| Who won the Triple Crown in 1978? |
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| Where is relaxin produced and what is it's function? |
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| Produced in the ovaries. Appears in late pregnancy, just before parturition. Act on ligaments of the pelvis, cervix, and vagina. |
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| Who was Black Jack and what role did he play? |
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| last horse issued to the army by the quarter master John F Kennedy's funeral also Hoover and Johnsons. |
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| A horse that is 16.2 hands high is how tall in inches? |
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4 inches= 1 hand
66 inches |
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| Give an exmples of each of the three types of joints. |
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Freely moveable - fetlock
immovable joints- cranium
slightly moveable- vertebrae |
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| The pineal gland is responsible for ____ synthesis (hormone). |
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| Mustard like plants possess ____ that interfere with the thyroid process of trapping iodine. |
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| What is the most common cause of Goiter? |
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| a close-knit horse, heavily boned, short coupled and muscular, but with quality, not so heavy as to be a draft animal, small under 15 hands |
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| games for horses and riders |
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| Who was Wild Horse Annie? |
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| Activist/trainer. Protested treatment of wild mustangs. Encouraged people to write letters to congress |
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| What is the function of the cecum and what is itws capacity in gallons? |
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Break down cellulose, fermentation
8 galons |
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| Compare the paint horse breed to the pinto horse breed |
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| Same except Paints must be sixed by a registered Paint, quarter horse, or thoroughbred. Pinto is registered Native American |
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| What category of equine does the Arabian fall into? |
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| What is the stand-oput feature of the Bashkir Curly? |
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| What state has the 2nd largest population of horses? |
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| California, Texas is first, Florida is third |
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| What was the main cause of the decline of the draft horse in the US? |
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| Replacement of draft horses by machines |
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| List the following ancestors of today's horse in order of their appearance on the earth: Pliohippus, Eohippus, Mesohippus, and the Merychippus |
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| Eohippus, Mesohippus, Merychippus, Pliohippus |
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| Where was the Prezwalski discovered? |
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| The pointed teeth besides the incisors. |
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| An enlargement at the point of the hock; it is usually caused by bruising |
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| A heavy neck that breaks over and falls to one side |
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| When a horse grabs and object between their teeth and applies pressure, gradually ganwing the object away if it is not metal |
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| Area where the hoof meets the leg; it produces the hoof wall |
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| A male horse up to 3 years of age. |
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| When the knees tend to bow inward. |
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| The deep indentures in the center of the surfaces in young permanent teeth |
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| An enlargement on the back of the leg, just below the hock. It is caused by trauma to the plantar ligament that causes the ligament to become inflamed and then thickened |
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| Used in combination with a curb bit. It acts against the chin groove to produce a painful pressure |
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| Describe the color grullo for a horse |
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| Mousy gray with black mane and tail |
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| Describe the color bay for a horse |
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| Tan-red with black points |
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| When breeding a palomino to a palomino what are the possible colors from this cross? |
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| Palomino, sorrel, cremello |
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| When breeding a sorrel to a cremello what are the possible colors resulting from this cross? |
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| Describe a lethal white and what cross may produce one |
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| 2 ovaro paints, lethal white is a white horse that may live a few days, but will lay down & die because it's missing a piece of it's colon |
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| When breeding a blue roan to a strawberry roan what is the chance the foal will die in the uterus? |
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| When buying a horse for a young inexperienced rider what should be the main concerns? |
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| Training, sex, demeanor, age |
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| What needs to be done to a horse to prevent founder after a hard workout? |
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| Give them water in small amounts, room temperature water |
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| What can be done when transporting a horse to prevent capped hocks? |
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| pad the trailer, wrap the hocks |
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| List two of the three things from your book that may cause heaves. |
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| Dust, severe exertion, respiratory infection |
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| Compare monkey mouth to parrot mouth. |
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| Monkey mouth is a severe under bite, parrot mouth is a severe overbite |
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| Compare a blemish to unsoundness. |
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| A blemish is a cosmetic problem that doesn't interfere with soundness. Unsoundness means that the horse has problems that effect the horse's ability to function |
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| where on the horse does ring bone occur |
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| grasping with the mouth at food, but food falls out |
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| What bacterium causes poll evil? |
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| In what three breeds according to your book, do buck shins occur most often? |
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| Quarter horse, standard bred, thourough bred |
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| What caused Poco Lena to founder? |
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| Left in the trailer too long |
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| A displaced patella is called ____? |
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| Compare wind sucking to cribbing |
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| Wind sucking they put there mouth against a pole and suck air, cribbing they chew on wood |
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| Boredome, high energy horses, rocking back and forth in stall |
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| What generally starts tail rubbing? |
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| Where would a shoe boil be located on a horse? |
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| Are wind puffs considered a blemish or unsoundness |
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| inflammation of the plantar ligament |
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| Navicular disease is an inflammation of the ____ ___ and ____ |
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| What is the best way to prevent a horse form becoming a halter puller? |
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| never let him get started |
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| What is a castrated male horse called? |
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| When breedding a homozygous black mare to a chestnut stallion what are the color possibilites? |
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| Why is fresh green grass a problem for horses in the spring? |
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| It's low in fiber and high in nutrients, can cause founder |
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| What gene must both sire and damn carry in order to get a sorrel fily foal? |
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| Distance between same foot hitting the ground |
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| The walk is a slow even, ____ beat gait |
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| Compare the pace to a trot. |
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| Pace both left and both right feet move at the same time, trot diagonal gait. |
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| The lope is considered a __ beat gait |
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| How do seed heads of fescue present a problem for horses? |
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| Can cause foundering, and sometimes cause problem in pregnant mares |
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| Hind foot hits the opposite front foot |
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| front of back foot hits the sole of the front foot |
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| List four natural gaits of the horse |
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| ___ is muscle atrophy of the shoulder caused by nerve damage |
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| greasy heel, low grade infection around the fetlock |
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| A bitless bridle used in the west for training |
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| Breeding that is monitored closely by the handler |
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| Federal law that establlished land grant institutions in each state |
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| The first teeth an animal develops |
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| What race did Secretarat set a world record in? |
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| A croop that is @a steep angle |
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| scale, weight tape measure, formula |
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| What type of horse is the Andalusian considered to be |
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| Where did the Andalusian originate from? |
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| What is/are interesting characteristics of the Andalusian horse? |
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It is born gray and becomes lighter over the years
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| What is unusual about the Bashikir Curliles hooves? |
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| They are black even when they have white markings on the legs |
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| Curlies are acclaimed to be the only____ breed so they are a good horse for people with allergies to horses. |
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| What are the Bashkir Curlies unique for? |
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| The Camargue horse is a hardy horse from the ___ areas of France. |
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| The Camargue horse is borwn____ and as they grow into adults they turn _____. |
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| The Camargue horse lives in ______. |
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