Tack
What are the two categories of bits?
What are snaffle and leverage bits
What piece of equipment is used to listen to the sounds of the internal organs?
What is a Stethoscope
Name 3 breeds of horses
What is a thoroughbred, Arabian, quarter horse, etc
What is the proper name for an immature female horse?
What is a filly
What disease involves inflammation of the Navicular bone
Name 2 parts of the saddle
What is seat, skirt, gullet, flap, stirrup bar, tree, pommel, cantle, knee roll, horn
A castrated male horse is called what?
What is a gelding
What is the name of the first true horse?
What is Equus
Healthy horses usually have what body condition score?
What is a 4-6
What are 2 signs of colic?
What is pawing, biting/kicking at stomach, not eating, decreased manure, rolling, sweating
Name 2 types of martinagles
What is running, standing, bib, irish, german
How many bones does a horse have?
What is 205 bones
Name three natural aids when riding a horse
What is seat, leg, hands, voice
What is an example of a stable vice?
What is cribbing, pawing, windsucking, stall kicking, weaving, pacing, wood chewing
How many grades of lameness are there?
What is 6 (Grade 0-Grade 5)
What two parts of the bridle connect to a regular snaffle bit?
What is the cheek pieces and the reins
What is the total range of vision of a horse?
What is 350 degrees
What is the determination of being on the correct diagonal when trotting?
What is the outside horse's shoulder move forward when you rise and sit, as the shoulder comes back
What disease is diagnosed by a Coggins test?
What is Equine Infectious Anemia
What are the four routes of injections you can give a horse?
What is intravenous, intramuscular, intradermal, and subcutaneous
What are the two pieces of tack that can prevent a saddle from either slipping forward or backward?
What is a breastplate and a crupper
Name 3 bones in a horses hind leg
What is the femur, fibula, tibia, cannon bone, splint bone, sesamoid bones, patella, calcaneus, phalanges
Name the type of hay most commonly used in cubed forages
What is Alfalfa
What are the normal vital parameters for a horse (Temp, Pulse, Respiratory Rate)
What is 10-24 breaths per min, 28-44 beats per min, 99-101.5 degrees