Normal Behavior
Abnormal Behavior
Foregut
Hindgut
Factors Affecting Digestion
100
Horse manure piles in the pasture
Where do horses avoid grazing?
100
Repetitive behavior with no perceivable function
What is a stereotypy?
100
Prohibits horse from vomiting
What is the cardiac sphincter?
100
Blind sac and fermentation vat
What is the cecum?
100
36 - 72 hours
How long does it take for feedstuff to travel through the horse's digestive system?
200
Favorite flavors of equid
What are sweet and salty?
200
What is wood chewing?
200
Common location of stomach ulcers
What is the Squamous (non-glandular) region of the stomach?
200
Location of absorption of volatile fatty acids (VFA)
Large intestines
200
The accumulation of sand in the digestive tract
What is the cause of sand colic?
300
False concept that animals will selectively eat to balance their diet
What is nutritional wisdom?
300
Grabs object and sucks in air
What is cribbing?
300
Where starch, protein, and lipids are digested in the horse
What is the small intestine?
300
Digests cellulose and hemicellulose in the hindgut
What are gut microbes?
300
Moves feed through the esophagus
What are peristaltic waves?
400
Quantity &/or quality of feed, seasonal changes, and temperature regulation
What causes weight change?
400
Eating feces
What is copraphagy?
400
An enzyme in saliva that helps break down starch
What is amylase?
400
Pelvic flexures
What are common sites for impactions in the large intestines?
400
Tastiness of feed
What is palatability?
500
Eats only plants
What is a herbivore?
500
Three horse management practices that decrease stereotypic behaviors
What is:
1) Feeding high-forage diets?
2) Turnout/exercise?
3) Increase Social interactions with other horses?
500
Main role of the stomach in digestion?
What is the breakdown of proteins?
500
Site of water absorption and formation of fecal balls
What is the small colon?
500
Drives the movement of food through the digestive tract
What is food volume?