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Horses Flashcards

1
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What is a Filly?

What is a Mare?

Whats is a Maiden?

What is a Brood Mare?

What is a Dry Mare?

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  • Female 3 years or less
  • Female 4 years and over
  • A female before giving birth to her 1st foal (a race horse that has not yet won a race is also referred to as a maiden)
  • A mare used for breeding
  • A broodmare that isn’t lactating (no foal at foot)
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Clydesdale

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  1. When does a horse have a full mouth?
  2. When does the Dental Star appear?
  3. When does the Galvayne’s Groove appear?
  4. What and where is the 7 year hook?
  5. When does the infundidulam (cup) disappear?
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  1. Around about 5 years of age
  2. Around about 10 years of age. (fine star from 7years)
  3. from the 10th year, on the corner incisor.
  4. Corner incisor
  5. 10-11 years for Central incisor, 11-12 for lateral incisor, 12-13 for corner incisor.
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How long is the gestation period of a horse?

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340 days

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Arabian

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Andalusian

Distinguishing features:

  • Roman Nose
  • Either grey or black
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3
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Welsh Pony

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3
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What colour am I?

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Piebald

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Lipizzaner

Features:

  • Willing and intelligent horses
  • Suitable for carriage and high level schooling
  • Austrian - few in Australia
  • Usually grey but sometimes bay, chestnut and roan. Foals born black
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5
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Shire (DraftHorse)

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Lipizzaner

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Lipizzaner

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Palamino

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8
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Lipizzaner :)

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10
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Shire Draft Horse

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Warmblood - Hannoverian

  • Used as show jumpers, hunters, draught and dressage horses
  • No special colours
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Standardbred

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Andalusian

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Thoroughbred

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Quarter Horse

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Percheron

  • HUGE horse!
  • Deep body, clean, short legs
  • Colour similar to Clydesdale, though less extensively marked with white
  • Abundance of hair (feather) around pastern
17
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What colour am I?

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Skewbald

19
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Feeding Horses

  1. 2 types of Carbohydrates are fed to horses: Concentrates and Roughage/Fibre, what are examples of these?
  2. Protien is provided to horses in two forms, added to concentrates and via Hay, give examples of each?
  3. Fats and Oils; Why are they given to a horse and in what form?
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  1. Concentrates
    1. Oats, Barley and Corn
    2. Chaff
  2. Protein
    1. Soybean, Linseed
    2. Lucerne hay (high in protien and Ca)
  3. Added for weight gain but not energy; Vegetable and Linseed Oils
20
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What is the Horses Birthday?

What is the Standard Breeds Birthday?

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1 August

1 September

21
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Morgan

Features:

  • Developed as all purpose saddle, harness and draught horse
  • Used for riding, driving, endurance and logging
  • Colour: Bay, chestnut, black and brown
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Warmblood - Holstein

23
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Percheron

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Clydesdale

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Thoroughbred

28
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  1. What is a horses normal resting heart rate?
  2. What is their Maximum HR?
  3. How long should a healthy horse require for recovery to 55-64BPM?
  4. What factors could increase a horses heart rate?
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  1. 20-40 bpm
  2. >200bpm
  3. within 20-30mins
  4. Excitement, dehydration, thermal load, electrolyte changes, pain can increase.
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Standardbred

29
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Quarter horse

Main identifying features:

  • Short back
  • well muscled
  • Strong hindquarters
31
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What is a Colt?

What is a Stallion?

What is a Gelding?

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  • An entire (uncastrated) male 3 years of less
  • Entire male horse 4 years and over
  • Castrated/desexed male of any age
32
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What colour am i?

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Buckskin

33
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Oestrus (Heat) Detection :- 3pts

How often does a Mare cycle?

How long is the Mare in heat?

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  • Teaser Stallion
  • Visible oestrus - Winking, vaginal discharge
  • Foal Heat 9 days after foaling
    • 21 days
    • 4days
34
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When is puberty for a female horse?

When is puberty for a male horse?

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  • 12 - 18 months, but 1st foal by 3 years
  • usually 14 months but mature by 2 - 4 years
35
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Warmblood - Holstein

  • Originally used as war horses
  • Now used as saddle and jumping horse
  • Strong riding and harness horse (heavier than Hannoverian)
36
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Welsh Pony

37
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Appaloosa

Features:

  • Usually have sparse tails and manes
  • Eye must be circled by white sclera
  • Parti-coloured and parti-coloured hooves (usually spotted but may appear flea-bitten or roan)
  • Colours: Frost leopard, snow flake, white blanket
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Warmblood - Hannoverian

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Appaloosa

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Morgan

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Clydesdale

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Thoroughbred

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Arabian

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Quarter Horse

47
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Ways for pregnancy Detection?

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  • Ultrasound - Foetal Heart rate 20days
  • Manual Check (rectal) - 45 days
  • Mare fails to come into season (oestrus)
  • Blood Test (Oestrone sulfate leveels in serum)

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