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How can you diagnose pregnancy?

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No heat
Clinical signs (vaginal and rectal examination)
Hormone measurement (eCG, P4)
Ultrasound (14-45 days)

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Basic colour is determined by

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W, G, E and A

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What are some general characteristics of hot/warmblood horse breeds?

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Narrow back, defined withers
Fine skeleton, long legs, above 150cm wither height
Long hindquarters for speed
Minimal feathering
High feed demand -> struggle to maintain weight
400-500 kg

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What is the agouti (A) gene?

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Distribution of black colour hair

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What are 5 advantages of artificial insemination?

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Reduces spread of venereal disease
International breeding programs are possible
Less stress by traveling
More mares can be mated with a valuable stallion
Allows line breeding (semen can be stored after death)

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What was the warmblood bred for?

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to be warm hehe 
Carriage horses (17th/18th century)
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What is SCID and who can have it?

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Severe combined immunodeficiency
Frameshift mutation
Poor T- and B-lymphocyt function, immunodeficiency, death of foal after colostrum protection ceases
Arab horses

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What is grey (G) gene?

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Exclusion of pigment from hair over time (born dark, lightens with age)

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Blood refreshment

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Crossing of individuals of same breed but different familial lines to increase vigor (physical strength and good health)

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Where are most cold blooded/heavy draft horses from?

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France, Germany, Great Britain

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What is the white (W) gene?

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Inability to form pigment

WW homozygotes is embryonic lethal

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Gelding

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Male castrated horse of any age

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What is gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT)?

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A mare’s ovum and a stallion’s sperm is inserted into a surrogate mare’s oviduct (useful for us fertile stallions with low sperm count)

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What genes can lead to haemophilia?

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WW (white) and OO (ovaro white spotting)

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What is the Latin name for a horse?

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Equus caballus

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Name some trotters (7)

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Orlow trotter
American standardbred
Russian trotter (Orlow x American standardbred)
Hungarian trotter (nearly extinct)
Hackney
Morgan
Cleveland bay
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Give the general characteristics of ponies

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Generally cold blooded
Any horse under 14 hands (142 cm)
Thick coats, manes, tails, lower limb feathering
High endurance, mild temper, long life span

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What are some health issues of the Thoroughbreds?

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High fatality in racing
Bleeding from lungs
Low fertility
Relatively small hearts
Small hoof:body mass ratio
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What are the 8 most important genetic diseases of the horse?

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Haemophilia
Lethal white ovaro
Melanomatosis
HYPP
SCID 
EPSM
HERDA
GBED
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Name some coldblooded breeds

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GB:
Suffolk punch, Shire, Clydesdale
Fr:
Percheron, Comtois, Boulonnais, Breton, Ardennais
Blg:
Brabant
Ger:
Schelswig, Rhein-Westphalen, Schwarzwald
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What is hereditary equine regional dermal asthenia (HERDA)?

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Autosomal recessive

Collagen defect: layers of skin are not held firmly together

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What is embryo transfer?

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Flushing out a mares newly fertilized egg and inserting it into a surrogate which is in the same phase of the estrus cycle as the donor mare

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What are the 4 Tapan subspecies?

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Warmblood
Oriental
Draft
Tarpan

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Suckling

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A nursing foal

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Name some thoroughbred blooded sport horses (Hungarian). Name the most winning flat race horse
Gidran (Hungarian anglo-arab) Fusioso-north star Noniusz Kisber Kincsem Thoroughbred Hungarian chestnut mare 54/54 wins
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What’s the name of the offspring when you breed a male donkey and a mare?
Mule
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What causes lethal white ovaro (LWO)?
TC to AG nucleotide mutation in endothelin B receptor gene
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What is the melanin extension/non-extension? (E)
Extension of red pigments (red, chestnut, sorrel) ee = ability to produce black pigment in skin, appears red in hairs
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What was the Thoroughbred bred for?
to be thorough ehhehe no but ultimate racehorse (Britain 1700)
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Foal
Less than a year old
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What is glycogen branching enzyme deficiency? (GBED)
No glycogen storage: cardiac and skeletal muscles cannot function --> death
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What are 6 signs that the mare is in heat?
``` Relaxed hyperaemic external genitals Frequent urination Raising tail Mucous discharge Presenting itself to stallion Teasing of other mares ```
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Is the horse uniparous biparous multiparous?
Uniparous --> only releases one ovum and produces one offspring
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When is the eCG production?
days 31-120
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What are some important Spanish horses and Spanish blooded descendants? except American
``` Andalusian Lusitano Lipizzaner Friesian Knapstrup ALL Foals Know ```
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What is HYPP?
Hyperkalaemic periodic paralysis Missense point mutation: autosomal dominant Signs: disturbed Na-channel function in skeletal muscle, hyperkalaemia, lameness, muscle weakness, paralysis and twitching
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Where does fertilization happen?
Fallopian tube
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Weanling
A foal that has been weaned (no longer fed breastmilk)
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What are some haute ecole dressage thingies? Name 5 | Where are they taught?
``` Piaffe Levade Courbette Capriole Croupade Taught in Spanish riding school in Vienna ```
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What is egg transfer?
An oocyte is removed from a mare’s follicle and transferred into the oviduct of a surrogate mare, which is then bred with a stallion
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When does a horse hit puberty?
16-18 months
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Name some general features of coldbloods
``` Large, strong, heavy (1000kg) High cannon girth, short legs Thick mane, tail, lower limb feathering Short life span, low withers, broad back Quiet temperament Used for their strength and meat production ```
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What is the only surviving wild horse breed?
Przewalski’s horse
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Interspecies hybrids
Mule and hinny/jennet
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What happens if a horse has melanomatosis of grey horses?
Disorder of melanocyte migration | Benign melanomas in grey horses 15 years +, around eyes, vagina, anus and on skin
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Grading up
Regular crossings throughout more generations to improve the breed or produce a new breed
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Chromosome number: Wild horse Domesticated horse Donkey
66 64 62
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What are modified variants of the three basic colours?
Roan, grey
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When will the mare have placental estrogens in her blood?
4-5 months onwards
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Yearling
Between one and two years old
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Ancestor of horse
Tarpan with 4 subspecies
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What is the average age of sexual maturity?
3-5 years
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What’s the name of the offspring when you breed a female zebra with a stallion?
Hinny/jennet
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What colour genes are dominant?
W and G
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What is equine polysaccharide storage myopathy? (EPSM) and what breeds can get it?
Metabolic muscular condition that can occur from being tied up. Related to glycogen storage disorder. Seen in Quarter horses
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How long is the period covered by horse evolution?
60 million years
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Earliest documentation of horse breeding?
Arabian horse, by Bendouin in Middle East at 1330 A.D
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What are some American descendants of Spanish breeds?
``` Mustang (feral) Appaloosa Quarter horse American pinto Peruvian paso My American Quacks At Pizza ```
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When we’re horses domesticated?
5-6000 years ago
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What is the roan (R) gene?
Mixing of dark and light hairs Black, blue, bay and red roan Dun horses
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What are some important warmblood breeds?
``` Arabian Barb Anglo-Arabian Akhal-Teke Tersk Russian Don A Blue Army Ate Ten Rocks ```
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What is the gestation period for the mare?
336 days
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Single crossing
One-time crossing
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Synthetic breeds
A planned gene pool of a horse breed
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What are the qualitative/monogenic basic colours of the horse?
Black, bay (brown), chestnut
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What horse breeds can get LWO?
``` Paint Pinto Quarter horse English Thoroughbred Miniature horse breeds ```
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S P O T
Spotting Piebald/Skewbald Ovaro spotted Tobiano
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Colt | Filly
Male under age of four | Female under age of four
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What are two types of pure breeding?
Inbreeding (should not exceed 0.1-0.3) | Line breeding: repeated backcrossing for fixing a certain trait)
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Terminal crossings
Utilizes heterosis
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Give some pony breeds
``` Shetland Welsh pony Exmoor, Dartmoor (Celtic) Connemara (Irish) Fell and Dales - sport type New forest Icelandic horse (gaited - tølt) Fjording (Norwegian dun purebred horse) Heck horse Curly horse ```
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What happens if a horse has LWO?
Lack of colon ganglions: Colic and flatulence in foal Death of homozygotes
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What breeds can get HYPP?
Quarter horse, paint and appaloosa breeds
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What are 6 types of cross breeding?
``` Blood refreshment Single crossing Grading up Synthetic breeds Terminal crossings Interspecies hybrids ```
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Mare | Stallion
Female over age of four | Male over age of four

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