Trailer Safety
Your mother drivers away with the truck your trailer was hitched to. Is it safe to tie your pony to your trailer now?
What is No?
You want to bath your pony. You should start by hosing this part.
What are the legs? (to get him used to the water and its temperature)
Name is one thing a vet can give your pony or horse to prevent diseases?
What are vaccines, immunizations or shots?
I am caused by an anaerobic bacteria and love to hangout in the frog and sulci of horse's hooves. My favorite environment includes wet, soupy pastures and unkept pastures. I am treated with Koppertox (copper sulfate).
What is Thrush?
The horse's normal temperature range.
What is 99-101 degrees F?
You have loaded your pony in the trailer. What to you attach first, butt bar or head tie?
What is butt bar?
Name two types of absorbant beadding.
Shavings, sawdust, shredded paper, peat moss, pine pellets
A Coggins test must be done every year for this diease.
What is EIA? (Equine Infectious Anemia)
I wreak havoc with horse's respiratory system causing the lymph nodes under the horse's mandible to swell. Also observed is a nasty pus/nasal discharge, fever, inability to eat/drink, lethargy. I am usually found in horses who travel and spread from nose to nose contact.
What is Strangles?
The horse's normal respiration rate.
What is 8-16 breaths per minute?
You are hauling one horse in a two horse straight mount trailer. Which side should it go on?
What is the left or driver's side?
A rolling horse is is stuck against a fence or wall and can't get his legs under him..
What is casting?
I am excess granulation around a wound.
What is proud flesh?
There are many forms of me and many causes, but I am known commonly as a stomach ache. I cause the horse to kick and bite at their sides, become very uncomfortable, and has a fever with lots of sweating. Most of the time when I am present horses want to roll and that causes them to "twist their gut." I am treated by a vet with mineral oil and iv fluids typically.
What is colic?
This term describes a horse that is getting his teeth cared for.
What is a float?
Name three things to check on the towing vehicle befire each trip.
What is oil and fluid levels, light connections, hitch, tire pressure?
You want to completely remove your horse's mane to contol lice or danruff. It is also a Western show style.
What is Roaching or Hogging?
Name two different ways you vet might administer medication.
What is by mouth, by injection (shot) IV, IM, subcutaneous or tubing, sublingual (under the tongue) internasal, suppository
What is Equine Infectious Anemia?
The number of teeth a mature mare has.
What is 36-40 permanent teeth?
You are ready to unload your pony from the trailer. You should do this first.
What is untie his head?
This problem could be cause by frequently brushing legs when they are wet.
What are scratches or mud fever?
I am the most common skin tumor in horses. Usually lumpy, non-painful area that look similar to warts.
What is a Sarcoid?
I am transmitted to horses through mosquitoes. I tend to cause neurological problems, partial paralysis, and sometimes death. There is a vaccination to prevent me and if I am transmitted to horses there is no specific treatment.
What is West Nile?
The darkish groove present on the upper corner incisor teeth in horses age 10-30 years old.
What is Galvayne's Groove?