Nutrition
Conditioning
Travel Safety
Veterinary Knowledge
Foot and Shoeing
100
Timothy, clover, bermuda, oat, alfalfa, teff, and orchard.

What are some different types of hay?

100
Failing to properly do this may cause your pony to get chills, develop muscle cramps, or even colic.
What is cooling out?
100
The step in unloading a pony that must be taken before you lower the ramp, open the back door, or unfasten the tail bar.
What is untying your pony?
100
Usually between 8 and 16 bpm.
What is respiration?
100
A foot infection caused by fungus or bacteria that live in wet, dirty feet.
What is thrush?
200
The three to four-inch sections that a hay bale breaks into.
What are flakes?
200
A big, square blanket designed for cooling out.
What is a cooler?
200
The side your pony should ride on in a double trailer if he is riding alone.
What is the left or driver's side?
200
Not eating, breaking out in a sweat, looking or nipping at his belly, pawing the ground, and stretching out as if to urinate.
What are signs of colic?
200
This means removing the shoes and trimming away the extra hoof, then replacing them.
What is having the shoes reset?
300
The main source of fiber for a pony, this category of feed should make up a majority of a pony's daily ration.
What is Roughage?
300
The suppleness of the horse's muscles, tendons, and ligaments and their ability to resist injury under stress.
What is flexibility?
300
This bandage is wrapped from just below the knee/hock all the way down to cover the bulbs of the heels and the coronary band.
What is a shipping bandage?
300
Help protect a horse against diseases caused by specific infectious organisms such as bacteria or viruses.
What are vaccinations?
300
Ready made shoes used in cold shoeing.
What are keg shoes?
400
You must be careful not to overfeed this type of concentrate, as it may cause your pony to colic or founder.
What is grain?
400
A preparation that draws heat and excess fluid out of the soft tissues; it is applied to the leg and covered with brown paper and a standing bandage.
What is a poultice?
400
A cotton stockinette bandage applied to the dock.
What is a tail bandage?
400
Drug that kills tapeworms.
What is praziquantel?
400
Adding a groove or crease to a shoe.
What is fullering?
500
A by-product of the processing of sugar cane or sugar beets, this ingredient is used to sweeten feeds.
What is molasses?
500
Uses oxygen and glycogen to create energy to move muscles.
What is aerobic metabolism?
500
This technique for difficult loaders should never be attempted with a "kicky" horse.
What is linking arms?
500
Traditionally, veterinarians have recommended that these teeth be removed from horses at an early age to avoid issues with the bit.
What are wolf teeth?
500
Often called the coffin bone.
What is the third phalanx?
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