Behavior
How is a pecking order established in a herd of horses?
Through aggression (accept any reasonable wording).
Name TWO colors registered in the International Buckskin Horse Association.
Buckskin, dun, grulla, and red dun
How can you tell whether a horse is black or seal brown?
Black horses have no areas of brown; seal brown horses have tan or brown hairs on their muzzle, flanks, and/or buttocks.
What is the term for large, protruding eyes?
Bug eyes or bovine eyes (accept either)
What is arthritis?
Inflammation of a joint (accept any reasonable wording)
Name ONE way a horse shows its dominant position within the herd.
Pinning ears, baring teeth, biting, turning rear toward other horse, kicking, threatening to kick, aggression (accept any correct answer)
The breed description of a Palomino describes the ideal color to be what?
Color of a newly minted gold coin
What are the 3 main colors of horses that provide the basis for many other coat colors?
Bay, black, and chestnut (FYI: These base colors can be modified with dilutions, spotting, roaning, and graying.)
What is the term for the convex profile of a horse's face?
Roman nose.
What is the main sign of blocked tear duct?
Wet face (tears don't drain properly so they spill onto the face.)
What is a horse's PRIMARY defense?
What is the difference between a Paint and a Pinto?
Pinto is a spotted horse; Paint can only have Thoroughbred, Quarter Horse, or Paint breeding.
Describe the color chestnut.
Body is some shade of red or reddish-brown; mane and tail are red, reddish-brown, or flaxen.
Describe a base narrow horse.
Horse's front legs are closer together at the ground than they are at the chest. (Accept any reasonable wording.)
FYI: Base-narrow horses are predisposed to landing on the outside hoof wall.
What is colic?
Acute abdominal pain in horses (stomachache)
In problem solving intelligence tests, does the horse place high, medium, or low?
Low
What is the temperature-sounding term for a horse of draft horse breeding?
Cold blooded (FYI: All horses are warmblooded mammals. "Cold blooded" draft horse types are known for their calm temperaments.)
Give ONE name for a very dark, chocolate shade of chestnut.
Liver chestnut or black chestnut.
What is the name of the conformation fault where the cannon bones are not centered on the knees?
Bench knees
Name 2 causes of colic.
Idiopathic; lack of water; diet changes; lack of exercise; parasites; bad teeth; moldy feed; overfeeding; eating sand; letting overheated horse gorge on cold water; riding hard after full feeding; twisted, telescoped, displaced, or trapped intestine
What is eliminative behavior?
Any behavior associated with elimination (such as urination or defecation) [FYI: Types of behavior include contactual, ingestive, investigative, eliminative, agnostic, epimeletic, et-epimeletic, allelomimetic, and sexual behaviors.]
Jr. Bonus
Name 3 breeds that are names after different US states.
Tennessee Walking Horse, Missouri Fox Trotter, and Colorado Ranger Horse (which is also called the Rangerbred)
What is a "true white horse?"
Horse that is born white and dies white (also accept a horse with white hair, pink skin, and brown, blue, or hazel eyes)
Junior Bonus
Name 3 conformation faults of the horse's body EXCLUDING its legs.
Coarse head, pig eye, cow eye, parrot mouth, monkey mouth, thick throatlatch, short, thick neck, ewe neck, mutton withers, swayback, roach back, goose rump, paunchy, wasp waisted or tucked up, narrow chest, slab sided (accept any correct answers)
Junior Bonus
Name 3 types of colic
Gas, spasmodic, impaction, sand, displacement, volvulus or torsion (twist), intussusception (telescope), incarceration (trapped), verminous (worms), exerciseinduced, ulcers (accept any correct answers)