Horse Stress Response?
Horse runs away from stressor
What is flight?
What do horses use to understand their surroundings? Humans utilize this as well but not as intensely as horses.
What is Smell, Sound, Touch, Sight, Taste?
Facial expression and ear position when a horse is interested in what is in front of them
What is ears forward but relaxed?
Area in which the horse cannot enter without your permission.
What is your space bubble?
Horse acts aggressively to alleviate stressor or to establish status in pecking order
What is fight?
Directly in front of the horse, directly behind the horse, and underneath the horse.
What are blind spots?
Facial expression, ear position, or behaviors exhibited when horse is calm and resting.
What is droopy ears, or relaxed but up
This is how you show the horse the direction you want to go.
What is looking in the direction you want to go with your eyes and body?
A large group of animals, especially hoofed mammals, that live, feed, or migrate together or are kept together as livestock.
What is herd?
Sight perceived from one eye
What is monocular vision?
When the horse's tail is in a neutral position, the horse is feeling _____.
What is contented?
Pats/scratches, or telling the horse "Good boy" or Good girl"
What is rewarding the horse?
Hierarchy of dominance between the horses in the herd
What is pecking order
Are horses Color blind?
Kind of, they have dichromatic vision? They see Yellow, Blue, Black and White the best!
Facial expression or body language indicating the horse is violently angry, in a fighting mood. May fight, bite, or kick.
What is ears flattened against neck, making themselves taller, Beedy eyes.
This is released when the horse responds how you have asked them.
What is the cue?
Repetitive motion or action when horse is stressed or under stimulated. This can be seen in humans as well
What is fidget?
Cells in the eye that allow for low light vision
What is a rod photoreceptor?
The horse will do this with their tail when they are either annoyed/upset OR trying to get flies off their body
What is swishing the tail?
We never do this when the horse behaves in an undesirable way
What is hit the horse?