Horses Flashcards
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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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Q
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Clydesdale
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Q
- When does a horse have a full mouth?
- When does the Dental Star appear?
- When does the Galvayne’s Groove appear?
- What and where is the 7 year hook?
- When does the infundidulam (cup) disappear?
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- Around about 5 years of age
- Around about 10 years of age. (fine star from 7years)
- from the 10th year, on the corner incisor.
- Corner incisor
- 10-11 years for Central incisor, 11-12 for lateral incisor, 12-13 for corner incisor.
3
Q
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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Welsh Pony
3
Q
What colour am I?
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Piebald
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Q
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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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Q
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Shire (DraftHorse)
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Q
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Lipizzaner
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Lipizzaner
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Q
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Palamino
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Q
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Lipizzaner :)
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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
Q
What colour am I?
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Skewbald
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Feeding Horses
- 2 types of Carbohydrates are fed to horses: Concentrates and Roughage/Fibre, what are examples of these?
- Protien is provided to horses in two forms, added to concentrates and via Hay, give examples of each?
- Fats and Oils; Why are they given to a horse and in what form?
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- Concentrates
- Oats, Barley and Corn
- Chaff
- Protein
- Soybean, Linseed
- Lucerne hay (high in protien and Ca)
- Added for weight gain but not energy; Vegetable and Linseed Oils
20
Q
What is the Horses Birthday?
What is the Standard Breeds Birthday?
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1 August
1 September
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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
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Percheron
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Clydesdale
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Thoroughbred
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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?
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
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Quarter horse
Main identifying features:
- Short back
- well muscled
- Strong hindquarters
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What is a Colt?
What is a Stallion?
What is a Gelding?
- An entire (uncastrated) male 3 years of less
- Entire male horse 4 years and over
- Castrated/desexed male of any age
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What colour am i?
Buckskin
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Oestrus (Heat) Detection :- 3pts
How often does a Mare cycle?
How long is the Mare in heat?
* Teaser Stallion
* Visible oestrus - Winking, vaginal discharge
* Foal Heat 9 days after foaling
* - 21 days
* - 4days
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When is puberty for a female horse?
When is puberty for a male horse?
- 12 - 18 months, but 1st foal by 3 years
- usually 14 months but mature by 2 - 4 years
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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)
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Welsh Pony
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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
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Ways for pregnancy Detection?
* Ultrasound - Foetal Heart rate 20days
* Manual Check (rectal) - 45 days
* Mare fails to come into season (oestrus)
* Blood Test (Oestrone sulfate leveels in serum)
