Breeds
This breed of horse is known for it's ability to run short sprints as well as it's cow sense.
What is the Quarter Horse?
Fat soluble vitamins (4).
What are A, D, E, and K?
This structure in the hoof separates the frog from the bar and sole.
What is the collateral groove?
In reference to training, the term for an acquired or learned reaction.
What is a conditioned response?
Category of forages known for having higher calories, protein, and calcium.
What are legumes?
Dan Patch was a well-known example of this breed, holding the mile record from 1903 to 1938.
What is the Standardbred?
Long chains of glucose.
What are starches?
This structure attaches muscle to bone.
What is colitis?
Annual weed poisonous to horses. Recognized by the large, white or purplish, trumpet shaped flower.
What is Jimsonweed?
This draft breed originated in the Brabant region.
What is the Belgian?
Results in reduced bone density, fractures, orthopedic diseases and rickets in growing horses.
What is Calcium deficiency?
What is rostral?
Opposite terms indicating relative locations of parts of the back or belly.
What are dorsal and ventral?
This tree is primarily poisonous if the horse comes in contact with wilted or dead leaves. Ingestion results in hemolysis (red blood cell destruction). Clinical signs develop a day following ingestion.
What is a Red Maple?
It is characteristic of this versatile, sturdy breed to have a chestnut coat with a flaxen mane and tail. They are the result of the cross between a Tyrolean mare and half-Arabian stallion.
What is the Haflinger?
The point in gestation when protein levels should be increased for broodmares.
What are the last 4 months of gestation?
Slow twitch muscle fibers, resistant to fatigue.
What are Type I fibers?
The term for an abnormally short lower jaw (also known as parrot mouth).
What is brachygnathia?
A warm-season perennial grass found in KY that grows 3-6 feet tall. Part of the Sorghum species. Considered a weed as it can cause Cyanide Poisoning in horses.
Johnsongrass
This pony breed recognized for it's jumping abilities originated in Ireland. Their ancestors include Spanish Barbs, Jennets, and Andalusians.
What is the Connemara?
A complex nutritional disorder commonly associated with easy weight gain, fat pockets and chronic laminitis. Horses with this disorder have insulin dysregulation and are diagnosed through a glucose tolerance test.
What is Equine Metabolic Syndrome?
This structure regulates the flow of stomach contents into the duodenum.
What is the pyloric sphincter muscle?
The term for inflammation of the membrane lining the joint cavity.
What is synovitis?
A perennial fern that is toxic to horses. Causes anorexia, weight loss, depression, constipation, incoordination, and paralysis due to thiaminase.
What is Bracken Fern?