Chapter 1 Flashcards
Horse used for riding racing driving showing or utility on a farm . Posses high speed
Light horse
Large breed of horse used for work
Draft horse
Country where horse is used as a source of meat for human consumption
Europe
Height of ponies
14 hands and 2 inches height at shoulder
Breeds of horses in India
9 out of which 6 are well recognised
Horse breed of Rajasthan
Marwari
Horse breed of Gujarat
Kathiawari
Horse breed of Himachal Pradesh
Spiti
Horse breed of Ladakh
Zanskari
Horse breed of Manipur
Manipuri
Horse breed of Sikkim , Darjeeling , Arunachal and Bhutan
Bhutia
Exotic horse breeds in India
English Thoroughbred
Connemara
Haflinger
Water
Arab
Polish
Andhiyur annual shandy means
Andhiyur horse market in Tamil Naidu
Digestive nature of horse
Fleet footed specialised herbivore
Percentage weight of digestive tract as compared to whole body weight
Sheep = 37.5 %
Cattle = 45%
Dogs = 3.7%
Humans = 8%
Pigs = 14%
Horses= 20%
Feed stays in rumen and reticulum for
5 to 7 days
Which animal derives highest proportion of energy from a given weight of fibrous feed
Ruminant
Length of digestive system or alimentary canal of horse
100 feet
Time taken by feed to reach from mouth to Anus in ruminants
72 to 96 hours
36 to 48 hours in horses
Two functional parts of horses digestive tract
Foregut
Hindgut
Ruminants are which type of fermenters
Foregut fermenters
Horses are what type of fermenters
Hindgut fermenters
Foregut of horse function as of
Pig
Hindgut of horse function as of
Ruminants
In feed utilisation horse is in between
Pigs and ruminants
Animal with mobile nostrils
Horse
Prehensile organ of horse
Upper lip
Bone like substance over dentine of tooth is formed by
Cement like substance silica in feed of horse
High crowned teeth’s of horses grows for a period of
Throughout the life
Digestion in horses converts herbage into
Pulp
Anaerobic bacteria in stomach of horse
Lactobacillus and streptococcus
Bacteria in mucosa and lumen of duodenum jejunum and ileum are
Viable bacteria with proteolytic activity in horses
Bacteria in mucosa and lumen of duodenum jejunum and ileum are
Viable bacteria with proteolytic activity
Glands in large intestine of horses secrete which enzyme
Only mucus and no digestive enzyme
Type of bacteria in caecum of horse
Cellulolytic are more in caecum than colon
Glucolytic
Most of the digestion of proteins in horses takes place in
Small intestine
How much proteolytic bacteria are in the large intestine
20 percent so protein digestion too takes place in large intestine of horse
Methanogen population in caecum of horse
10 power 5 per ml
Percentage of archae in horses digestive system
3.5%
Two functions of methanogens in horses
1) Removes excess hydrogen via anaerobic metabolism
2) favours growth of fermentative bacteria
Function of acetogenic bacteria in horses
Converts H2 and CO2 into ACETATE
Function of protozoa in caecum of horses
Assist degradation of hemicellulose and pectins
Defaunation in horses results in
Decrease in digestibility