Week 1 Flashcards
Star, stripe, snip, blaze, bald
Cornet, pastern, sock, stocking
Black is a truly black horse; it cannot have brown areas anywhere. The color cannot fade at all during the year. The horse can, however, have points
A black horse that becomes brown anywhere on the body during the year, usually on the muzzle and flank, is considered brown. Brown therefore can be any shade of black down to a lighter brown but cannot have any red hue
A brown, chestnut, or sorrel horse with black lower legs, mane, and tail is a bay
A dun has yellow tan as the main body color and the same black lower legs, mane, and tail as a bay. The dun has a dorsal stripe: a dark line down the middle of the horse’s back
A buckskin is the same color as a dun but does not have a dorsal stripe
A horse can look white to a layperson but is referred to as gray by equine professionals because the skin of most of these horses is black (Fig. 6.36). (If the skin is pink, then the horse is referred to as white, but this is rare.)
A palomino is the same allover color as the dun and buckskin, with a white or blonde mane and tail
A brown horse with a red hue is called a chestnut
A brown horse with a dull red hue is called a sorrel. The only breed that recognizes this color is the American Quarter Horse
Building blocks of proteins
Amino acids
Percentage of true absorbed protein that is available for productive body functions
Biological value
Grains or high starch compounds
Concentrates
Subtraction of the energy lost in feces from consumed GE
Digestible energy
Process of protein, carbs, and fat breakdown.
Digestion
Grass, legumes, hay
Forage
Total energy potentially available I’m a feed consumed by an animal
Gross energy
Levels of nutrients needed to sustain body weight without gain/ loss.
Maintenance nutrient requirements MNRs
Actual portion of energy available to the animal for use in maintaining body body tissues
Metabolic energy ME
Energy available to the animal after emerge from feces. Urine and combustible gases has been subtracted from gross energy
Net energy NE
Number of grams of body weight gain per unit of protein consumed
Protein efficiency ratio
General measure of nutritive value of feed
Total digestible nutrients TDNs
T/F
is not the hay, corn or oats that are used by cells but amino acids, simple sugars, fatty acids, minerals and vitamins.
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