Think Like A Horse
Horses learn from the _____ of pressure.
Release
How many degrees can a horses ear pivot?
180
What do we call a nervous or anxious gesture a horse performs with a front foot to show impatience or frustration?
Pawing
What is a sharp verbal sign used by horses to show dominance or irritation, often used when meeting a new herd mate?
Squeal
What should be the FIRST and most important thing we assess on a horse when judging conformation?
Balance
What are TWO dental related unsoundnesses?
Parrot Mouth/Monkey Mouth (Overbite and Overbite)
What do we call the levels of hierarchy in a herd of horses?
Pecking Order
A horse's ears pricked forward pair with bright and alert eyes would indicate?
What type of vision do horses use primarily that provides them with "split screen" vision?
Monocular
What two things could a cocked leg mean behaviorally depending on a horse's other physical indicators?
Relaxation or a threat to kick
A soft, low and soothing verbal noise made by a horse to show affection, or interest is a _____.
Nicker
Hip, shoulder and pastern angles should ideally slope gradually at a ____ angle.
45 degree
What blemish refers is any abnormality or injury to the coronary band?
Quittor
What do horses sense immediately about a person when they are in their presence? (1 word)
Energy
A horse's ears rotating back and forth while riding would indicate what while riding?
Listening
What type of vision does a horse have to use to focus on an object in front of them, at a distance?
Binocular
An oral behavior most often seen in foals or young horses that indicates submission is what?
Clacking
A high pitched verbal signal used to call out to or locate other horses as well as indicate excitement is called a _____.
Whinny
A _____ build would contribute to a horse's lack of ability to get underneath themselves from behind due to their hip being higher than their withers.
Downhill
What do conformational fault do we call when a horse's cannon bone ties into the knee out of alignment from the FRONT view?
Bench Kneed
To a horse, whoever moves their ______ first is submissive and whoever does the moving is in charge.
Feet/Hooves
A horse's ears pinned flat back against their neck with furrowed brows and a narrow eye would indicate what?
Anger or Dominance
What type of eye is most common in paints or horses with white or bald faces?
Glass/Wall/Blue Eyes
The act of curling the upper lip to expose sensory glands, most often seen in breeding stallions but also may be seen in any horse to show pain or displeasure with a smell or taste is what?
The Flehmen Response
A "Cluck"
Structural correctness and bone density both increase the likelihood of long term ______.
Soundness
What conformational fault refers to the horse having TOO MUCH "bend" to the hock causing them to look camped under behind (from the side view).
Sickle Hocked
What are two natural survival instincts that a horse is born with?
Flight or Fight
A horse's ear contains how many muscles?
10
A small eye that could cause vison range challenges, and behavioral issues in a horse is known as what?
Pig Eye
Cribbing
In our program, what verbal cue to we give to ask for a lope departure?
A kiss
A criteria used when placing a class of horse's that refers to a quarter horse looking like a quarter horse is _______.
Breed Character
What altered way of going would generally be caused by a horse that is pigeon toed?
Paddling
Horse's will always choose other _____ over people because they are herd animals.
Horses
Ears are used for a horse to tell the type of sound, the meaning of the sound, and the _____ of a sound.
Location
A horse trainer's preference, a mark of quality, and a sign of a calm and intelligent horse is a _____.
Soft Eye
A "Vice" in which a horse sways or paces back and forth sometimes shifting weight from one front limb to another.
Weaving
When using the word "Whoa" to signal a stop with a horse, what makes the word hold value to the horse?
The release of energy/breath and/or backing it up with a physical cue and repetition/reinforcement with a back-up
A shorter, choppy stride on a horse can be caused by what factors? (name at least one)
Steep shoulder angle, straight posty legs (front or back), short upright pasterns
What unsoundness COULD be indicated by "growth rings" on the outer wall of the hoof that may vary in degree of severity accompanied by a concave appearance of the hoof
Laminitis/Founder