Lesson 3 Section 3 Flashcards
If you approach a horse and it immediately turns around to show you its hind quarters, what is it doing?
Rejecting your approach and preparing to kick.
What side should you always approach ahorse from?
The left side
How to attach a halter on a horse
Standing close to the left side of the horses neck, facing forward slip your right arm over the horses neck grasping the halter in both hands under the horses head. Slip the halter on over the horses nose, attach the halter up behind the horses ears.
When do you NOT tie a horse to a fence or tree?
During physical examination or blood draw.
What is Heart-Girth tape?
Flexible tape-measuring device that weighs a horse by measuring its girth just behind the elbow in its heart area