Markings
This is the shortest leg marking.
What is a coronet
The average number of bones in a horse
What is 205 bones?
The normal pulse of a horse at rest
What is 28 to 40 beats per minute?
Includes the dock and all the hair
What is the tail?
The height of a pony.
What is 14.2 hands or less?
What is the high stocking?
The length an average health hoof grows in a month.
The normal resting respiratory rate of a horse
What is 8-16 per minute?
The portion of the ground surface of the hoof between wall, bars, and frog.
What is the sole?
The number of chromosome pairs of a horse
What is 32 pairs?
This is where the star is located.
What is the forehead?
The larges muscle in the hind quarters
What is the Maximus?
The normal temperature of a horse.
What is 99 to 101.5?
Gives the body form; supports soft parts and protects vital organs.
What is skeleton?
90% of a horses body mass made up of
What is Oxygen?
The paint pattern when the white goes over the topline.
What is tobiano?
The length of the small intestine
What is 68 feet?
Facial artery (jaw), behind elbow (heart)
What are two places you can check a horse’s pulse?
A common term for tetanus; a disease in which one symptom is the inability to open the jaws.
What is lockjaw?
The size of a horses eye compared to a human eye.
What is 8 times larger?
This facial marking that looks like the face itself is recolored.
What is a badger face?
The number of bones in the equine skull
What is 34 bones?
water, energy, protein, vitamins, and minerals
What are the five required nutrients?
Glands located along the urethra of the male horse that produces fluids to nourish and preserve sperm.
What are the accessory glands?
Anagen, catagen, and telogen
What are the stages of the hair cycle?