Horse Bowl Practice Questions

What bone acts as a fulcrum to redirect the pull of the flexor tendon against the coffin bone?

What part of the hoof bears the weight of the horse?

If a 1200 lb horse was only fed hay (no grain), how much will the horse eat of quality hay?

What is the color of a horse with its base coat being chestnut and a uniform mix of white hair?

What do we call an unborn animal as it develops in the uterus?

Which system of the horse's body use smooth muscles?

What is the recommended amount of pasture per horse?

Who was the first man to breed quality mules in the US?

What disease is characterized by swollen or abscessed lymph glands behind the jaws?

What is the conformation in which the knees are bent forward called?

The destruction of the frog by anaerobic bacteria is called what?

How many bones are in the sternum?

When should mares be placed under artificial lighting in order to ovulate in mid to late Feb.

Which one of these vitamins is NOT fat-soluble?

t/f Epidermis and dermis are the two layers of a horse's skin.

SIMULTANEOUSLY, blood enters the right atrium from the body and the left atrium from where ?

What is the collective term for stirrup leathers, stirrup irons, and a girth?

What is another name for the first premolar permanent tooth?

An adult horse contains approximately how many gallons of blood?

What year was the AQHA formed?

How fast is an average walk? 

Mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine are the 4 parts of the _____

What are added to bit mouthpieces to create "leverage"?

What is the general term for a bacterial infection circulating throughout the bloodstream?

Which parasite of the horse comes in two types - biting and sucking?

Any deviation in structure or function that interferes with the horse's intended use is?

What is the term for the physical appearance of an animal?

One year of a horse's life is equal to approximately how many years of a human's life?

What is the largest tissue mass in the horse's body?

What does the term lactation mean?

A horse's forelimbs bear what percent of its body weight?

What is the name of the muscles located between the ribs that are involved in inspiration?

What is the western version of a "standing martingale" called?

What is an example of a "single footed" gait?

What nutrient is both a lubricant and a regulator of body heat?

What coat color is unique to the Shetland Pony?

What is it called when a horseman visually observes and/or feels the fat cover at 6 body sites?

What year was the AMHA formed? (American Miniature Horse Association)

If a horse's ears are positioned on the side of the head pointing outward it is said to be ...?

What type of stall door is the safest and easiest to use?

What is the purpose of screening or dragging your pastures to spread out manure piles?

Foals fail to form types of nerves in their intestinal tracts and die of colic soon after birth

What is the piece of the harness that fits around the tail called?

In a pasture with good forage, how many hours a day will a free ranging horse spend grazing?

Secretariat won the Belmont Stakes in record time. What was it?

What breed of horse is mainly used for harness racing with trotters and pacers?

Where in the body will you find a neurologic case of Rhinopneumonitis in a horse or foal?

what % of slope is needed to provide rapid removal of water without erosion around a horse barn

Foals with a pot belly, rough coat, slowed growth, coughing, and nasal discharge have what?

Name 2 important minerals involved in bone formation?

What is the name of a colorful woven blanket used with a western saddle that is made of wool?

A horse whose entire forelimb is too far forward and away from the body is called what?

Which country produces the most western saddles?

How many weeks before foaling will a mare's udder start to fill with milk?

Condition resulting from an excessive amount of synovial fluid in the fetlock joint capsule.

What is the study of hormones and their effects called?

What is the main tube of the respiratory system called?

6 parts of the foot

Yearly fertilizer should be applications should be applied to pasture at what time?

What horse coat color is smoky or mouse colored with a black mane and tail?

What is the common term for laryngeal hemiplagia?

What is the vertical crack in the side of the hoof called?

What is the meaning of "way of going"?

What is the most common type of draft horse in the US?

What are 3 breeds the APHA will allow?

What piece of equipment do you put on your horse's head to lead them around?

What is nature's hoof conditioner?

What was the first association for an American breed of horse?

What are immunoglobulins?

When do the temporary corner incisors erupt?

what kind of bit acts like a snaffle or curb combined into one mouthpiece?

What is the single most important characteristic in equine conformation selection?

What breed of horse has a natural running walk?

Disorder that is associated with dysfunctions of the larynx causing roaring?

When horses are traveling long distances in trailers, water should be offered to them how often

An enlargement below the point of the hock typically seen in Sickle Hocked horses is what?

T/F To prevent a horse from bolting his grain you would place rocks in the feed tub.

A bony enlargement surrounding the bones of the pastern is called what?

T/F A horse is ruminant.

What are the 5 main nutrients a horse needs.

Fullering, web and branch are parts of what?

On a western bridle, what side of the horse does the throatlatch buckle?

The vertebrae would be examples of what classification of bones?

What is an impaction?

When both hay and concentrate are incorporated into a pellet it is said to be _______ _______.

Most foals should be born within how many minutes?

What is the scientific name for joint inflammation?

Age determination is made by studying the twelve front teeth. These teeth are called what?

Dorsal stripe running from mane to tail\intersected by arms of a cross at withers is common in.

T/F Hyperkalemic periodic paralys is the scientific name for HYPP?

What unsoundness causes excessive pressure on the 3rd phalanx or coffin bone?

What is the most popular bedding for horses?

What endocrine gland regulates the basic metabolism?

Spasmodic, impaction, excessive fermentation, incarceration, displacement are all types of ____

Darley Arabian, the Godolphin Arabian, and the Byerly Turk are foundation sires of which breed?

What happens when hay is over-cured and baled with too low moisture content?

t/f You use glycerin soap to clean tack and equipment

What is the most common material used to make bits?

t/f Legumes, cereal grains and minerals are 3 different types of hay

Which is NOT a part of the horse's large intestine?

What is the general shape of the mare's ovaries?

In feed processing, what term is for grain that passes through rollers w/ corrugated surfaces.

What type of bedding can cause laminitis or founder?

Superficial wounds from rubbing or scraping against an irritant surface are called what?

A bony growth usually found on the inside lower distal joint is called _____?

Where is the hoof wall the thickest?

General term for the bacteria and microorganisms that normally reside in the large-intestines

What is the name for the functional unit of the lungs that exchanges gas?

Why are the sensitive structures of a horse's hoof called sensitive?