Equine

Question 1

True or False: equine is a economy dependent industry

Answer 1

True

Question 2

How can value be added to equine?

Answer 2

With training

Question 3

What are the different types of equine operations?

Answer 3

boarding, training, breeding, combination

Question 4

What are the characteristics of horses bred to work?

Answer 4

Draft, large size, heavier soil, pulls plow through, not fast but carry more

Question 5

What breeds are used for work?

Answer 5

Clydesdale, Percheron, Belgain, Shire

Question 6

What two main battles in Britain increased the need of horses?

Answer 6

Battle of Heinsteins and Battle of Hangencourt

Question 7

What is the main breed in the United States?

Answer 7

the quarter horse

Question 8

What are the characteristics of a quarter horse?

Answer 8

quarter mile speed, short burst of energy, work cattle

Question 9

What are characteristics of a horse that is bred for hunting?

Answer 9

warm blood, fox hunting, use beagles so you can see them through brush

Question 10

What are the three breeds that are bred for color in the United States?

Answer 10

Palomino, Appaloosa, and paint

Question 11

What is the “X factor”

Answer 11

it is a mutation on X chromosome
can only be passed to a stallion’s daughters, or via his dam to a colt or filly

Question 12

Who was Secretariat?

Answer 12

Triple Crown winner in 1973
won Belmount by over 31 lengths
fastest 1.25 mile
sired over 600 foals, but could never replicate himself
2x heart, weighed 22 lbs

Question 13

What are primitive marks?

Answer 13

spots of white on another color of horse

Question 14

What does a star on the face of a horse look like?

Answer 14

white patch between or above eyes, shape of diamond

Question 15

What does a stripe on the face of a horse look like?

Answer 15

narrow, over the bridge of the nose white patch

Question 16

What does a snip look like on the face of a horse?

Answer 16

white patch that covers bridge and forehead

Question 17

What does a bald look like on the face of a horse?

Answer 17

white patch that touches eyes, covers most of face

Question 18

What are horses fed?

Answer 18

high quality roughages

Question 19

What percentage of BW intake daily do horses require?

Answer 19

0.75%

Question 20

What acts as the ruminant in horses?

Answer 20

secum

Question 21

What are the four components in the cecum that help digestion?

Answer 21

protein, VFAs, carbon dioxide, and methane

Question 22

What is fed to horses that is high in fiber?

Answer 22

oats

Question 23

How much feed does a horse eat per day?

Answer 23

7 1/2 lbs

Question 24

What is colic?

Answer 24

abdominal pain
can be fatal
might roll or paw at stomach

Question 25

What is the frog of a horse?

Answer 25

rubbery wedge wedge shaped between bars, helps with blood flow back to heart when it compresses

Question 26

What is founder?

Answer 26

bone breaks from laminae
form of laminitis
high grain diet/lush pasture
excessive weight
other causes

Question 27

What are VFAs?

Answer 27

energy source for horses, absorbed in walls of cecum

Question 28

What are Arabian horses?

Answer 28

long distanced horse
has high endurance

Question 29

Where is the blind area of a horse?

Answer 29

directly in front and directly behind the horse

Question 30

Why is it important to stay safe around horses?

Answer 30

They have a very powerful kick, so its important to be very close or very far from horse

Question 31

How can you determine a horse’s age?

Answer 31

Rounding of teeth, groove appears after 10 years on teeth and disappears

Question 32

What is the size of a “hand” when measuring horses?

Answer 32

4 inches

Question 33

Where do we start when measuring a horse?

Answer 33

nose to tail