What Your Horse Wears
Equipment used to keep the saddle in place
Cinch/Girth
A wide white marking extending beyond the width of the eyes
Bald face
A flat white worm
Tapeworms
Clinical signs include kicking at their belly, rolling, sweating and extreme discomfort.
Colic
Normal temperature range for horses
99-101*
A tack item used to keep your saddle from rolling.
Breast collar
The white reaches from hoof to knee
Stocking
There is a large and small version of this worm
Strongyles
A Coggins test is used to detect this disease.
Equine Infectious Anemia
When measuring a horse’s height, one hand equals how many inches
4 inches
Type of boot reining horses wear on their hind feet.
Skid boots
A wide white marking that doesn’t spread beyond the width of the eyes
Blaze
Causes a horse to rub its tail excessively
Pin worms
Causes a thick yellow discharge from nostrils and eyes, fever, difficulty swallowing
Strangles
A Coggins test is good for how long?
1 year
Helps keep a horse’s mouth from gaping.
Caveson
Thin white hair line just above the hoof
Coronet
The eggs of this parasite can be found adhering to legs and neck of the horse
Bots
Inflammation of the laminar structures of the foot
Laminitis or founder
One of the oldest human-developed horse breeds in the world. The bloodlines are found in almost every modern breed of riding horse
Arabian
A kind of bridle with no bit.
Hackamore
Paint horse with head marking like a solid colored horse. Tail is often two colors
Tobiano
This parasite lives in the large nuchal ligament that runs from the poll to the withers.
Threadworms
A non-infectious chronic pulmonary disease
Heaves
Diseases with an incubation period before the horse shows signs of sickness are referred to as
Lentivirus