Breeds
Known for their long arched necks, and dished face.
What is an Arabian?
Two basic disciplines of riding.
What is western and hunt seat?
General term indicating abdominal pain.
What is colic?
Key fundamentals to any horse management program.
What is nutrition, health and exercise?
White marking between eyes.
What is a star?
Short and stocky, with heavy muscular development; short, wide heads; and deep, broad chest. Used mostly for cattle work in our area.
What is the American Quarter Horse?
Firm root bristles, when wet, work well for stimulating circulation and for grooming thicker coat.
What is a rice brush/hard brush?
Horses are "hindgut fermenters" this is a special organ.
What is a cecum?
Horses need access to this everyday.
What is fresh clean water?
Small white ring around the coronet band, above the hoof.
What is a coronet band?
Cold blooded horse, heavy breed. The largest breed of horse.
What is a percheron?
A heavy saddle having a deep seat, high cantle and pommel, pommel horn, wide leather flaps for protecting the rider's legs, and little padding
What is a Western saddle?
Relatively small organ.
What is the stomach?
It’s very important to remember that, by nature, horses are _____.
What are grazers?
Body color ranging from tan, through red, to reddish brown; black mane and tail; usually black on lower legs.
What is bay?
The breed is best known for its curly coat, mane and tail. Most pronounced in the winter coat, they shed to reveal either straight or slightly wavy hair.
What is a bashkir curly?
Provides leverage on a horses mouth.
Three parts of the small intestine.
What is the duodenum, jejunum and ileum?
Important factor/factors affecting quality of hay.
What is color, stage of maturity when cut, amount of weeds/bugs in hay?
Body color smoky or mouse-colored (not a mixture of black and white hairs, but each hair mouse-colored); mane and tail black; usually has black dorsal stripe and black on lower legs.
What is grullo?
Large warm blooded breed, black coat color with extremely long mane and tail that can reach the ground.
What is a Friesian?
The girth piece of the saddle.
What is a cinch?
The ideal minimum number of times per day a horse should be fed.
What is twice a day?
Health test required to enter most equine facilities or events?
What is Coggins?
More or less uniform mixture of white with black hairs over a large portion of the body, but usually darker on head and lower legs.
What is a blue roan?