Toxic Plants
Maintenance
Laminitis
Energy & Hay Evaluation
Carbohydrates
100
Often confused with Timothy, it causes sores in the horse's mouth when chewed.
What is Fox Tail?
100
Should provide most if not all of the energy in a maintenance horse's diet
What is forage?
100
Overeating, working on a hard surface, and metabolic diseases
What are some causes of laminitis?
100
2.0 % of the horse's bodyweight
Amount of Dry Matter Intake (DM) that the average maintenance horse requires.
100
Portion of a plant that is digested in the hindgut of the horse.
What is Fiber or Structural Carbohydrates?
200
Palatable in the dried form. May cause depression and swelling in a horse's lower legs
What is hoary alyssum
200
Low, Average, and High
What are the three metabolism types of the maintenance horse as described by the Nutrient Requirements Council for Horses?
200
Associated with pasture-induced laminitis
What are fructans
200
Measures the nutrients in feed and can include energy, crude protein, minerals, and fiber
What is a feed analysis conducted in a laboratory?
200
Sugars, starches, and fructans
What are Non-Structural Carbohydrates (NSC)
300
The wood shavings or exposed roots of this plant pose a significant concern.
What is Black walnut?
300
Must be added to the maintenance horse's diet when feeding a pasture diet in Michigan
What are salt and selenium?
300
Separates during laminitis
What are the sensitive and insensitive laminia? 
300
Estimates the amount of energy in feed that is available for maintenance, work, growth, and reproduction.
What is Digestible Energy?
300
Stored in the liver and muscles for energy during intense exercise
What is glycogen?
400
Wilted/dried leaves are toxic, and a horse's urine may become dark in color if ingested
What is a Red Maple Tree?
400
NRC Horse Program is based on this book
What is the 2007 Nutrient Requirements of Horses?
400
This bone rotates during the chronic stage of laminitis
Coffin Bone
400
GE - FE
What is the calculation for Digestible Energy?
400
A form of energy that is absorbed in the hindgut as a byproduct of microbial fermentation.
What are volatile fatty acids (VFA)?
500
It takes as little as 6 ounces of consumption for this plant to cause death.
What is Japanese Yew? 
500
The 4 locations of stored energy in the horse
What are muscle glycogen, adipose tissue (fat), liver glycogen, body protein (muscle tissue)
500
If there is no radiographic rotation of the coffin bone, the next 8 -12 weeks are considered the recovery stage.
What is the subacute phase of laminitis?
500
Unit refers to the amount of digestible energy in 1 kg of horse feed
What are Megacalories (MCals)?
500
Three structural carbohydrates found in plants
What are cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin?