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What is necrosis?
Death of skin or tissue
What is the scientific name for a baby tooth?
Deciduous
How does ventilation help with the health of a horse?
Decreases dust, molds, and irritating gases
What is meant by parturition?
Delivery of foals
What is the star-shaped or circle-like structure near the center of the wearing surface of the permanent incisors?
Dental Star
What are 3 symptoms of Potomac Horse Fever?
Diarrhea, fever, depression, shock, laminitis
What is the name of the anti-coagulant in moldy clover hay that can cause blood not to clot?
Dicumerol
Name 3 functions of the alimentary canal?
Digest food, absorb nutrients eliminate remaining food waste
Name 3 systems of the horse’s body that use smooth muscles.
Digestive respiratory, circulatory, urogenital muscles
What is the tissue located below the heel of the foot?
Digital Cushion
what is the name for dark spots on a white coronet band?
Distal Spots
How do you measure the size of an English saddle?
Distances from the saddle nail to the mid-point of the cantle.
Why can foals and growing horses usually be fed in groups with little problem?
dominance hierarchies or pecking orders have not yet become strongly established.
Which cousin of the horse has a great deal more reasoning power than the horse?
Donkey
What two near relatives of horses may be infected with EIA?
Donkeys and Mules
Three Day even competition involves which three tests?
Dressage, Cross-Country, and Stadium jumping
Name 4 changes that can be observed in the horse as it ages?
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
When do mosquitoes most commonly feed on horses?
Dusk
Spell the term that is used to describe the length of time from one ovulation to the next?
E-S-T-R-O-U-S-C-Y-C-L-E
During what stage of the mare’s estrous cycle is the mare receptive to the stallion?
E-S-T-R-U-S
During hot weather, when is the best time to do strenuous riding?
Early morning or late evening
What horse’s body parts points toward sound first?
Ears
What does EEE stand for?
Eastern Equine Encephalomyelitis
Name 2 types of Encephalitis?
Eastern, Western, Venezuelan
What are the 4 strains of equine encephalomyelitis?
Eastern, Western, West nile, and Venezuelan
What is coprophagy?
Eating feces
What shoe should the farrier use to support the rear portion of the hoof in horses with navicular disease?
Egg Bar
Name the 4 stages of the life cycle of a fly
Egg, larva, pupa, adult
What is the name for a shoe with a convex bar concocting at its heels?
Egg-bar shoe
What is the rhinopheumonitis related virus that rarely causes abortion in mares?
EHV-4
Horses that sweat profusely lose water as well as what?
Electrolytes
What is the scientific name for sleeping sickness?
Encephalomyelitis
what is the study of hormones and their effects called?
Endocrinology
What does net energy refer to?
Energy actually used by the animal
Name 4 ways in which grains differ nutritionally?
Energy, crude proteins, vitamins, minerals, fiber
Name 3 things that a good quality legume hay is higher in than a good quality grass hay?
Energy, protein, calcium, Vitamin A, Vitamin B
The horses skin is composed of what two layers?
Epidermis, and Dermis
What does EPSM stand for?
Equine Polysaccharide Storage Myopathy
