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Horses, Donkeys, Mules, and Small Mammals

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American Paint

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Horse with large spots

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American Quarter Horse

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Breed used for bursts of speed

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American Standardbred

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Pacer with slight build

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Appaloosa

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Small spotted blanket breed

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Arabian

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Dish-faced breed

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Morgan

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Small riding and pulling breed

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Palomino

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Godlen-tan color with whitish mane and tail

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Saddlebred

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Harness racers, trotters

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Tennessee Walker

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Large ambling breed from Tennessee

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Thoroughbred

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Breed used in 1 and 2 mile races

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Hand

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4 inch measurement (usually in reference to a horse’s withers to the ground)

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Miniature

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No more than 8.2 hands (34in)

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Pony size

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10-14.2 hands

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Light size

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14.2-17.2 hands

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Draft size

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More than 17 hands

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Cold-blooded

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Draft

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Hot-blooded

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Riding breeds

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Warmblood

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Cold and warm

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19
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Mule

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Hybrid - male donkey and female horse

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Henny

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Hybrid - male horse/female donkey

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Bay

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Dark red color with black mane, tail, and legs

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Gray (dappled)

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Splotchy colors of gray

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Chestnut (Sorrel)

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Lighter red color, no black markings

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Black

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All black

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Dun

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Black mane, tail, and a black stripe down the middle of the back

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Buckskin

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Cream to tan colored horses, black mane, tail, and legs

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Roan

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White hair mixed with other color

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Grullo

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Dun horses with mousy color

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Stallion

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Male horse - intact

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Gelding

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Male horse - neutered

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Mare

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Female horse

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Jack

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Male donkey

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Jenny

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Female donkey

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John

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Male mule

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Molly

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Female mule

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Colt

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Young male

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37
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Filly

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Young female

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38
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Foaling

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Birthing

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Foal age

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Up to 6 months

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40
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Weanling

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6 months - 1 year old

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Yearling

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1 year old

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42
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Herd or Band

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Collective of horses

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Barren

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Collective of mules

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44
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Equinophobia

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Fear of horses

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English riding style

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Relatively flat saddle and guiding with both handles

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Western riding style

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Stock saddle with horn and guiding with one hand

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Walk

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48
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External Anatomy

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See pic on module

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49
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Hoof Anatomy

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See pic on module

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50
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Lameness Types

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See pic on module

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51
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Ambling gait

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Diagonal 4 beat gait with front foot landing first

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52
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Annular ligament syndrome

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Thickening on the back of the fetlock

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53
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Bars of the mouth

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Gap between incisors and molar teeth

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54
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Bishoping

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Altering the teeth to mask age

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Bit

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Bridle’s metal bar or chain that goes in the mouth

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Blister

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A strong liniment to rub on legs

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Bog spavin

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Compressible swelling of the hock (joint fluid)

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Bolt

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To suddenly run without control

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59
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Bots

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Fly that lays eggs on legs, larvae live in the horses stomach

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Bowed tendon

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Thickening of the back of the leg above the fetlock

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Box stall

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Square stall to hold one horse

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Bridle

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Head collar for riding, consists of headstall, bit, reins

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Cast

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Downed horse is wedged against a wall and unable to rise

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Check ligament

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Fibrous band to digital flexor tendon that aids in supporting leg when standing

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65
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Chestnut

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Small callus on inside of each of the 4 legs

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66
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Clinch cutter

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Tool to remove horse nail clinch

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67
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Coggins

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Blood test for EIA (Equine Infectious Anemia)

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Colic

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Abdmonal pain that can lead to shock and death (#1 killer of horses)

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Cradle

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Neck restraint to prevent chewing wounds

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Cross tie

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Tying a horse’s head to points on each side

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Cups

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Indentation in occlusal surface of young teeth

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Dental stars

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Yellow/Dark circles near occlusal surface center

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Dressage

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European training of precise horseback maneuvers

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74
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EIA

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Equine Infectious Anemia

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75
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Star marking

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Dot on forehead

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Snip marking

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Small strip between nostrils

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Stripe marking

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Thin stripe from behind nostrils to middle of forehead

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Blaze marking

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Thick stripe from nostrils to top of forehead

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Bald

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Large coverage of white over majority of the face

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Far-side

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Right side

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Farrier

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Horse shoer

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Flehman

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Stretching neck and curling upper lip

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Floating

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Filing off sharp tooth edges

84
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Foal heat

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Estrus 7-12 after foaling

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Founder

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Laminitis and rotation of the coffin bone

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Fox trot

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4 beat gait, diagonal feet land almost at the same time

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Galvayne’s groove

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Groove on the 3rd upper incisor that appears at 10 years and is gone at 30 years of age

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Guttural pouch

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Pocket formed by part of the auditory tube

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Hoof pick

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Instrument used to clean sole, bars, and frog

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Hoof tester

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Blunt pliers to check for sensitive areas on hoof

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Heaves

A

Chronic asthma-like disease
“Heave line” - thickened chest muscle on lower aspect of chest due to difficulty in breathing

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Laminitis

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Inflammation of the inner wall of the hoof

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Lather

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Foamy sweat

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Longeing

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Directing the horse around you in a circle on a long lead line

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Monkey mouth malocclussion

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Lower incisors protrude beyond upper incisors

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Parrot mouth malocclussion

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Upper incisors protrude beyond lower incisors

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Near-side

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Nippers

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Hoof trimming cutters

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Osselets

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Soft swelling on the front of the fetlock

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Paddock

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Small fenced area (corral, pen)

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Periople

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Moisture-proof coating for hoof

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Pinchers

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Farrier’s pliers to remove horse shoes

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Quidding

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Dropping food from the mouth while eating

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Rack

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Accelerated flashy 4 beat lateral gait

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Rasp

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File to smooth hoof and round edges

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Ringbone

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Bony swelling on pastern bone (high or low)

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Settle

A

To become pregnant

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Shod

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Wearing horse shoes

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Sidebone

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Calcification of the collateral cartilages

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Splints

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Inflammation of ligament between splint and cannon bones

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Smooth mouth

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All cups have worn off teeth (11 years)

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Socks

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White on legs below knees or hocks

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Stay apparatus

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Muscles, ligaments, tendons used to stand at rest with minimal effort

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Stock

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Narrow stall for restraining a horse

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Strangles

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Contagious Streptococcal infection of young horses

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Strike

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To slap with front leg

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Tack

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Equipment for riding or driving

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Tease

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Detecting heat (estrus) with a stallion

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Twitch

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Restraint tool that pinches the upper lip

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Waxing

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Dried colostrum on nipples just before foaling

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Windpuff (Windgall in UK)

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Compressible swelling on sides of the fetlock

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Wolf tooth

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1st upper premolar

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Gerbil

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Also called a jird, male has belly scent gland

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Guinea pig

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Also called a cavy and requires vitamin C in diet

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Hamster

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Has flank scent glands and cheek pouches

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Hare

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Does not burrow, longer ears than rabbits

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Mouse

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Most common small house and laboratory rodents

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Rabbits

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Have 2 pair of gnawing incisors, burrows

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Rat

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Black, brown Norway, white (albino) Norway breeds

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Rodent

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Small gnawing animals with single pair of incisors

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Sable

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Cream undercoat with black on feet, tail, mask

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Lagomorph

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Rabbit and hare family

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Myomorph

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Mouse, rat, gerbil, and hamster family

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Hystricomorph

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Guinea pig and chinchilla family

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Chinchilla

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Soft hair, males do not have scrotum

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Ferret

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Related to weasels and mink, have odor glands

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Hooded

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Rats with white coat and black head and shoulders

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Buck

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Male mouse, gerbil, rat, hamster, chinchilla, or rabbit

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Doe

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Female mouse, gerbil, rat, hamster, chinchilla, or rabbit

140
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Hob

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Male ferret

141
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Jill

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Female ferret

142
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Boar

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Male guinea pig

143
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Sow

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Female guinea pig

144
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Monogamous

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Pairs with only one mate

145
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Polygamous

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Pairs with multiple mates

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Kindling

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Birthing - rabbits

147
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Pup

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Young mouse, rat, gerbil, or hamster

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Bunny

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Young rabbit or hare

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Kit

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Young ferret or chinchilla

150
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Business

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Collective of ferrets

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Horde

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Collective of hamsters or gerbils

152
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Mischief or Colony

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Collective of mice or rats

153
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Warren or Colony

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Collective of rabbits or hares

154
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Housing

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Shoebox cage

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Musophobia

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Fear of mice

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Estivate

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Seasonal rest during summer

157
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Hibernate

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Seasonal rest during winter

158
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In vitro

A

In a laboratory

159
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In vivo

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In an animal’s body

160
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In situ

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At normal site in body

161
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Horizontal transmission

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One animal to another

162
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Vertical transmission

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From mother

163
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Genotype

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Genetic makeup for a particular trait

164
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Phenotype

A

Physical characteristics

165
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Homozygous

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Two identical genes for the same trait

166
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Heterozygous

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Two different genes for a particular trait

167
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Knockout

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Having a specific gene removed to create an anomaly

168
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Progenitor

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Parent or ancestor

169
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Transgenic

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Transfer of specific genes between animals

170
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Anogenital distance

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Distance used to determine sex in some species

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Antivivisectionist

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Person opposed to surgery on live animals

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Axenic

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Barbering

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Dominant animals bites or chews fur of others

174
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Biohazard

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Substance dangerous to life

175
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Cannibalism

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Devouring the same species

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Cecotroph

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“Night feces” in rabbits, eaten from anus

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Cheek pouch

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Space in mouth of hamsters for food and bedding

178
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Dusting

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Method used by chinchillas to clean themselves

179
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Dysbiosis

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Altered intestinal bacteria from antibiotic use

180
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Exsanguination

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Removal of blood from the body

181
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Fur-slip

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Shedding hair in patches from handling Chinchillas

182
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Gnotobiotic

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Germ free animals exposed to nonpathogenic germs

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Harderian gland

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Gland behind eye in rats that causes red tears during stress

184
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Latent infection

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Infection that appears during stress

185
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Pithing

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Destroying part of the brain with a blunt needle

186
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Polytocous

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Giving birth to litters

187
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Protocol

A

Written procedure for carrying out experiments

188
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Ringtail

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Ring-like sores on tail of rats caused by low humidity

189
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Scurvy

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Vitamin C deficiency (diet source required of primates and guinea pigs)

190
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Sipper bottle

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Water bottle that is turned upside down with a tube to drink from

191
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Snuffles

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Upper respiratory infection of rabbits with Pasteurella bacteria

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