Re-production
Retention of the placenta or any part of it left in the mare may lead to what disorder?
What is Founder
This pattern described is a white strip covering the Coronet band.
What is a coronet
The curling of the upper lip of a horse is called____________?
What is the Flehmen Response
Any injury of the navicular bone of the front foot is referred to as?
What is Navicular Disease
Infection of the frog caused by anaerobic organism that causes necrosis of the frog, and foul blackish discharge is _____________.
What is thrush
The chestnut horse is also known as what color?
What is Sorrel
The skeletal system is made up of how many bones?
What is 205
The expulsion of a dead fetus prior to 300 days of gestation is called?
What is Abortion
This pattern is white from the coronet to the pastern.
what is a Pastern
A colt can be gelded when the testicles descend. At what age does this generally occur?
What is 10-15 months
In this condition, The patella locks and causes the leg to remain in the extended position, and is often seen in the post-legged horses.
What is Stifled
Inflammation of the back of the pastern that leads to chronic dermatitis that results in scabs, skin cracks, and eventually granulation clusters is known as ____________________.
What is Scratches
A brown horse is often dark enough to appear black except for the muzzle and flanks where brown or tan hairs will appear. For this reason, a brown horse is also known as ___________.
What is Seal Brown or Dark Bay
The _____ of the horse act of levers, store minerals, and are the site of blood cell formation.
What are Bones
In order to prevent infection, the stump of the navel should be treated with what, and for how many days?
What is :
10% Iodine
5-7 days
This pattern is white from the coronet to the fetlock.
What is an Ankle
This serves as a cartilage trap to prevent food from entering the larynx when swallowing occurs.
What is Epiglottis
Soft, puffy fluid filled swelling that occur around a joint capsule. Tendon sheath or bursa, which are a result of inflammation but do not affect soundness are called what?
What is Wind Puff, or Wind Galls
An infection that penetrates the white line of the sole and travels deep under the hoof wall between the laminae until it abscesses at the coronet band is referred to as what ?
What is Gravel
Bay dilutes to either of these two colors where the mane, tail and points remain black.
What is :
Dun (dorsal strip, zebra strips)
Buckskin
Bones have four classifications, what are they and given an example of each.
What are:
Long (Tibia, Fibula, Cannon)
Short (knee, hock, fetlock)
Flat (rib, pelvis, skull, scapula, sternum)
Irregular (vertebrae)
What is the name of the first defecation or feces of a newborn foal?
What is meconium
This pattern is white from the coronet to the middle of the cannon.
What is a sock or Half-Stocking
Tying up can also be confused with this disorder or symptom due to similarities such as pawing, sweating, and laying down.
What is Colic
What is the conformation deformity causes a bursitis or swelling at the point of the elbow caused by insufficient bedding, kicks, falling down, or by rubbing the heel of the shoe on the elbow?
What is Capped Elbow
Inflammation or swelling of the bursa at the poll
What is Poll evil
Chestnut dilutes to what color that has various shades of copper to light yellow with lighter to white mane and tail?
What is Palamino
Joints are lubricated by joint fluid within the joint capsule called?
What is Synovial Fluid
An infectious abortion caused by an organism that attacks and kills the fetus, that is usually chronic and caused by streptococcus zooepidemicus is also known as?
What is Rhinopneumonitis Virus
(equine herpes virus)
This pattern is white from the coronet to the knee.
What is a stocking
Inflammation of the periosteum is called _________________?
What is Periostitis
The puffy swelling in the hollow on the outside of the hock, which can be pushed freely from one side of the hock to the other, and is generally due to a strain injury, or faulty conformation is referred to as?
What is Thoroughpin
What disease in foals is called “shaker foal syndrome?” and why?
What is:
Botulism, because of the muscle tremors
A double dilution of chestnut results in this color?
What is Cremello
There are 2 types of connective tissues, one that connects bones to bones and one that connects muscles to bones. What are they called and which does which?
Ligaments= Bone to Bone (elastic bands)
Tendon= Muscle to Bone (Fibrous bands)
It is important that the foal receives this within 36 hours after birth because it is a laxative and contains antibodies that protect the foal. What is it?
What is Colostrum
This pattern is white about the front of the coronet or the heel.
What is white marks or spots
Define the key difference between Laminitis and Founder?
Laminitis is the inflammation of the hoof wall.
Founder is Laminitis so severe that is causes rotation of the coffin bone.
This condition causes an involuntary flexion of the hock causes an upward jerking motion during movement, and may affect one or both hocks. The cause of this condition is unknown and is accentuated when the horse is backed or turned.
What is Stringhalt
What is the most common symptom of Potomac Horse Fever that 80% of horses develop?
What is Diarrhea
This spotted color pattern is any other colors other than black with white.
What is Skewbald
Name 4 things that blood carries to the body’s tissues.
What are: Nourishment, Electrolytes, Hormones, Vitamins, Antibodies, Heat, Oxygen
Estrus cycles in mares are usually how many days in length, and how many days are in actual Estrus?
Estrus Cycle is 21-23 days
Estrus is 5-7 days
This pattern includes dark spots on a white coronet band.
What are Distal Spots or Ermine Spots
In exchange for oxygen, _________ is removed from the tissues, and eliminated from the body in expired air.
What is Carbon Monoxide
________ is a bony enlargement on the lower interior surface of the hock joint that may result in limited flexion of the hock, generally seen in horses with excessively straight hindlegs, cow or sickle hocks, or injury.
What is:
Bone Spavin or
Jack Spavin
If a horse develops severe diarrhea due to Potomac Horse Fever, what other treatments might they need aside from antibiotics?
What is:
IV Fluids
and
Electrolytes
Name the three types of Paint horse patterns
What are:
Tobiano
Overo
Tovero
There are 9 body systems of the horse. Name all 9.
Skeletal System (bones/joints). Muscular System (muscles/ligaments). Respiratory System (Lungs/air passages). Circulatory System (Heart/Blood vessels). Digestive System (GI/Urinary). Nervous System(Brain/Spinal Cord/Nerves/senses). Endocrine System (ductless glands/chemical control/hormones). Reproductive System (ovaries/testes/assoc. organs). Integumentary System (Skin/hair/hoof)