Questions

Question 1

What is necrosis?

Answer 1

Death of skin or tissue

Question 2

What is the scientific name for a baby tooth?

Answer 2

Deciduous

Question 3

How does ventilation help with the health of a horse?

Answer 3

Decreases dust, molds, and irritating gases

Question 4

What is meant by parturition?

Answer 4

Delivery of foals

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Dental Star

Question 6

What are 3 symptoms of Potomac Horse Fever?

Answer 6

Diarrhea, fever, depression, shock, laminitis

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Dicumerol

Question 8

Name 3 functions of the alimentary canal?

Answer 8

Digest food, absorb nutrients eliminate remaining food waste

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Digestive respiratory, circulatory, urogenital muscles

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Digital Cushion

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Distal Spots

Question 12

How do you measure the size of an English saddle?

Answer 12

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

Question 13

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

Answer 13

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

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Donkey

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Donkeys and Mules

Question 16

Three Day even competition involves which three tests?

Answer 16

Dressage, Cross-Country, and Stadium jumping

Question 17

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

Answer 17

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

Question 18

When do mosquitoes most commonly feed on horses?

Answer 18

Dusk

Question 19

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

Answer 19

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

Question 20

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

Answer 20

E-S-T-R-U-S

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Early morning or late evening

Question 22

What horse’s body parts points toward sound first?

Answer 22

Ears

Question 23

What does EEE stand for?

Answer 23

Eastern Equine Encephalomyelitis

Question 24

Name 2 types of Encephalitis?

Answer 24

Eastern, Western, Venezuelan

Question 25

What are the 4 strains of equine encephalomyelitis?

Answer 25

Eastern, Western, West nile, and Venezuelan

Question 26

What is coprophagy?

Answer 26

Eating feces

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Egg Bar

Question 28

Name the 4 stages of the life cycle of a fly

Answer 28

Egg, larva, pupa, adult

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Egg-bar shoe

Question 30

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

Answer 30

EHV-4

Question 31

Horses that sweat profusely lose water as well as what?

Answer 31

Electrolytes

Question 32

What is the scientific name for sleeping sickness?

Answer 32

Encephalomyelitis

Question 33

what is the study of hormones and their effects called?

Answer 33

Endocrinology

Question 34

What does net energy refer to?

Answer 34

Energy actually used by the animal

Question 35

Name 4 ways in which grains differ nutritionally?

Answer 35

Energy, crude proteins, vitamins, minerals, fiber

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Energy, protein, calcium, Vitamin A, Vitamin B

Question 37

The horses skin is composed of what two layers?

Answer 37

Epidermis, and Dermis

Question 38

What does EPSM stand for?

Answer 38

Equine Polysaccharide Storage Myopathy