First Aid
Procedures
Procedures
Running a stream of cool water over a wound or a leg
What is "cold hosing"
This is a two beat gait where the legs move in diagonal pairs
What is the "Trot"
A procedure done whereby sharp points are rasped or filed
What is "Floating"
The junction where hair and hoof meet
What is the "Coronet" or "Coronary Band"
Light porous bone, fits the shape of the hoof
What is the "Coffin Bone or Pedal Bone"
Placing hoof in a container of warm water with Epsom salts to help soften hoof horn and draw infection
What is "Tubbing"
The sequence of footfalls is left hind, left fore, right hind, right fore
What is the "Walk"
Produces images of the internal bones of the body
What is an "X-ray" or "Radiograph"
Inflammation of a joint
What is "Arthritis"
A bone that is half in and half out of the foot. Low Ringbone affects this bone.
What is the "Short Pastern" bone
Applying heat to an area using a hot towel
What is "Hot Fomentation"
The horse will cover more ground in this 2 beat forward gait
What is "Lengthened Trot"
The procedure of changing the horses teeth to make him appear to be a different age
What is "Bishoping"
An acute highly contagious respiratory disease characterized by respiratory inflammation, fever, muscle soreness and loss of appetite
What is "Equine Influenza" or "Flu"
What is the "Navicular Bone"
Application of cold as an alternative to hosing. A source of cold is held or bandaged to the leg
What is a "cold compress"
This is the state in which the horse is gathered together, he engages his hindquarters
What is "Collection"
A long tube that is passed through the nostril, down the esophagus and into the stomach
What is a "Stomach Tube"
This disease is known to cause pregnant mares to abort their foals
What is "Rhinopheumonitis" or "Rhino"
Eighteen PAIRS of these each connected to a thoracic vertebra
What are the "Ribs"
Leg wrap soaking in ice water and applied to the leg. Additionally cold water can be applied between leg and bandage to keep area cold
What is a "Cold Water Bandage"
Leg yield, shoulder-in, half-pass, travers, renvers; all movements where the horse moves sideways as well as forwards
What are "Lateral Movements"
Depositing semen into the vagina or cervix by artificial means
What is "Artificial Insemination"
The approximate gestation period for a horse
What are "335 days" or "11 months"
What is the "Sternum"