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1
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What is necrosis?

A

Death of skin or tissue

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What is the scientific name for a baby tooth?

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Deciduous

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3
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How does ventilation help with the health of a horse?

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Decreases dust, molds, and irritating gases

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4
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What is meant by parturition?

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Delivery of foals

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5
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What is the star-shaped or circle-like structure near the center of the wearing surface of the permanent incisors?

A

Dental Star

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6
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What are 3 symptoms of Potomac Horse Fever?

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Diarrhea, fever, depression, shock, laminitis

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What is the name of the anti-coagulant in moldy clover hay that can cause blood not to clot?

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Dicumerol

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Name 3 functions of the alimentary canal?

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Digest food, absorb nutrients eliminate remaining food waste

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Name 3 systems of the horse’s body that use smooth muscles.

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Digestive respiratory, circulatory, urogenital muscles

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What is the tissue located below the heel of the foot?

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Digital Cushion

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what is the name for dark spots on a white coronet band?

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Distal Spots

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12
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How do you measure the size of an English saddle?

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Distances from the saddle nail to the mid-point of the cantle.

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13
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Why can foals and growing horses usually be fed in groups with little problem?

A

dominance hierarchies or pecking orders have not yet become strongly established.

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14
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Which cousin of the horse has a great deal more reasoning power than the horse?

A

Donkey

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15
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What two near relatives of horses may be infected with EIA?

A

Donkeys and Mules

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16
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Three Day even competition involves which three tests?

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Dressage, Cross-Country, and Stadium jumping

17
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Name 4 changes that can be observed in the horse as it ages?

A

Drooping of the lower lip, swayed back, deepening of the hollows above the eyes, appearance of gray hairs around eyes and muzzle, loss of weight, leg/joint stiffness

18
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When do mosquitoes most commonly feed on horses?

A

Dusk

19
Q

Spell the term that is used to describe the length of time from one ovulation to the next?

A

E-S-T-R-O-U-S-C-Y-C-L-E

20
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During what stage of the mare’s estrous cycle is the mare receptive to the stallion?

A

E-S-T-R-U-S

21
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During hot weather, when is the best time to do strenuous riding?

A

Early morning or late evening

22
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What horse’s body parts points toward sound first?

A

Ears

23
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What does EEE stand for?

A

Eastern Equine Encephalomyelitis

24
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Name 2 types of Encephalitis?

A

Eastern, Western, Venezuelan

25
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What are the 4 strains of equine encephalomyelitis?

A

Eastern, Western, West nile, and Venezuelan

26
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What is coprophagy?

A

Eating feces

27
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What shoe should the farrier use to support the rear portion of the hoof in horses with navicular disease?

A

Egg Bar

28
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Name the 4 stages of the life cycle of a fly

A

Egg, larva, pupa, adult

29
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What is the name for a shoe with a convex bar concocting at its heels?

A

Egg-bar shoe

30
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What is the rhinopheumonitis related virus that rarely causes abortion in mares?

A

EHV-4

31
Q

Horses that sweat profusely lose water as well as what?

A

Electrolytes

32
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What is the scientific name for sleeping sickness?

A

Encephalomyelitis

33
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what is the study of hormones and their effects called?

A

Endocrinology

34
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What does net energy refer to?

A

Energy actually used by the animal

35
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Name 4 ways in which grains differ nutritionally?

A

Energy, crude proteins, vitamins, minerals, fiber

36
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Name 3 things that a good quality legume hay is higher in than a good quality grass hay?

A

Energy, protein, calcium, Vitamin A, Vitamin B

37
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The horses skin is composed of what two layers?

A

Epidermis, and Dermis

38
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What does EPSM stand for?

A

Equine Polysaccharide Storage Myopathy

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