Newborn Foal
Growing Up
Feeding the
Growing Horse
Growing Horse
DOD
Mare and Foal
100
Source of immunoglobulins for the newborn foal
What is colostrum?
100
Reach maturity quickly by feeding a high energy diet
What is rapid growth?
100
The ideal calcium to phosphorus ratio for the growing horse
What is 2:1?
100
Term for orthopedic problems in the growing horse
What is developmental orthopedic disease (DOD)?
100
When a mare's milk begins to decrease in nutrients
What is 1 - 2 months?
200
The times per day young foal nurses
What is 70 times per day?
200
The faster growing of the sexes (colts vs fillies)
What are colts?
200
Percent of digestible energy requirements fed to a horse with DOD
What is 70%?
200
Inflamation of the growth plates
What is physitis (epiphysitis)?
200
Feeding practice to decrease weaning stress
What is creep feeding?
300
When the newborn foal can absorb the colostrum's antibodies
What are a foal's first 24 - 36 hours?
300
The year of the fastest growth rate in the growing horse
What is the first year?
300
Alfalfa supplies these two nutrients in excess of growing horses' requirements
What are protein and calcium?
300
Nuerological form of DOD
What is wobbler syndrome?
300
While fed to both mare and foal, this feed should be formulated for the ______
What is the foal?
400
The amount of colostrum a newborn foal should receive 6 - 8 hours after foaling
What is 1 - 2 L?
400
The year a rapidly growing and a moderately growing horse reach the same mature weight
What is 3 years?
400
1 lb per month of age
What is the amount of creep feed fed to a foal?
400
Mineral imbalance, excessive energy, protein deficient
What is a nutritional cause of DOD?
400
Fence height of a corner creep feeder for a light horse
What is 4 feet?
500
Required if the foal has failure of passive transfer after 24 hours
What is an intravenous plasma treatment?
500
The yearlings' mature height percent
What is approxamately 90%?
500
Two trace minerals associated with healthy skeletal development
What are zinc (Zn) and copper (Cu)?
500
Dietary change, limit exercise, corrective trimming, casting, and/or surgical intervention
What are possible treatments for DOD?
500
The amount of milk a young foal will drink/day based on foal's BW
What is 25% of the foal's body weight?