Horse terms and facts?

Question

Ok! So I want some that are not obvious! UNIQUE! If you want to email me email me at [e-mail]

I am always open to learning more

The kind I like are the ones yoy don't need to know like for example most freisans can't canter because of their straight shoulders

I also like ones you need to know like what a coggins test is ( I know what one is)

Thanks a lot! Please make them unique and email me if you would like! [e-mail]

Answer 1

Colic is not potentialy deadly. the rolling is beacause a twisted gut is deadly!!!

Answer 2

a green horse is one with little experience.

no it is not actually green :)

Answer 3

Horses CANNOT "vomit" in the way that humans do, this is because the stomach has a cardiac sphincter valve, which is "one way" - ie once the food is in it can't get back out. UNLESS of course the valve ruptures and the food is regurgitated, and it would come out of their nose or mouth, or usually both. If this valve ruptures however, the horse is in serious danger. It's, thankfully, a rare occurance but it can happen. It is more likely that the stomach will rupture before the valve.

Also, colic can be potentially fatal even if the horse doesn't roll and twist it's gut. There are four types of colic - sand, gaseos, impaction and spasmodic. Spasmodic is one of the the most common (in the UK anyway) colics, and this is where the horse is most likely to want to roll because of the gut spasms. Impaction colic can kill even if the horse doesn't roll because that blockage in the gut can cause the gut wall to rupture, or it can also cause such a "backlog" of food and waste that the bowels are also affected as waste cannot be passed (this depends on where the blockage is). Gaseos colic can also cause internal rupture. Sand colic can cause irrepairable gut damage due to abrasion. So you see, colic alone CAN, and sadly often DOES, kill.

ADD: I thought I'd add some more:

A horse has a wide range of vision. It can see completely around its entire body except for small blind spots directly in front of its face, underneath its head, and directly behind itself. This is why it's very important not to walk up right behind a horse - you are in its blind spot and if you startle it you may get kicked! And a kick hurts!

Adult mares usually have 36 teeth, though she may have up to 40 teeth if she happens to have any canine teeth, which is possible but less common. Adult males have between 40 and 44 teeth. (These numbers don't include wolf teeth.)

Horses can sleep standing up, though the sleep will only be light.

Rabbits are not rodents. They are lagomorphs, and are more closely related to horses than they are to rats or mice (Found this on the internet a while ago, I'm not sure I believe it lol)

Answer 4

Horses do vomit-through their nose.

Answer 5

Friesians are generally cows not horses. If you mean black and white, they are piebald as brown and white are skewbald. Some call them painted. The Friesian breed was a good stocky horse used in medieval warfare and is now used in carriage work as they are strong and docile.

"STALE" for a horse to urinate

"LIST" a dark stripe along the horse's back often called the dorsal stripe.

"PROPHET'S THUMB MARK"  A pronouced dimple on the horses neck. Believed to be a sign of luck to the owner.

The English racing stock is said to have been originally bred from the Darley Arabian, The Byerley Turk and The Godolohin Arabian. All imported to England in circa. 1700's

"STRAPPING" To groom a horse thoroughly taking about one hour where

"QUARTERING" is a quick brush down, cleaning feet - eyes and dock -

Well, there's a few...............

Answer 6

Horses are only able to enter a deep state of sleep when they lie down.  When they are not comfortable with lying down in their environment, they become sleep deprived.  Typically a horse will sleep while another stands watch...I see it everyday with my two...one sleeps, one watches.  I never see them both lying down at the same time.

Cowgirl...horses are not able to vomit because the muscle in the esophagus is not capable of reverse peristalsis, which is the muscle action necessary to produce vomiting.

Midnight...humans also have a cardiac sphincter, and we vomit all the time.  The sphincter is not a one-way valve...it is a circular muscle that constricts and relaxes; it allows passage of content in either direction when it is relaxed.  When it doesn't relax, it can trap foodstuff in the stomach which may lead to stomach rupture.

Colic simply means abdominal pain, and in and of itself is not life threatening.

Answer 7

Horses can't breath through their mouths, they only breath through their noses.

Horses are the only animals besides humans, that have sweat glands throughout their body, meaning they can sweat all over their body. I didn't even know that!!

Answer 8

Many generically use the term "Horse" when discussing a:

Foal - Newborn male or female

Colt  - Male Age Three or Younger

Filly  - Female Age Three or Younger

Mare - Female Four Years Old and Older

Ridgling or Rig - Male with one undescended t******e

Gelding - Castrated Male

Horse - Male Four Years Old and Older

Stallion - Male Used to Breed Mares

Yearling - Male or Female One Year Old

Weanling - Male or Female Separated from Broodmare

Broodmare - Producer of a Foal

Answer 9

Some facts:

1. A full grown horse's intestines are approximately 89 feet long.

2. There are approximately 75,000,000 horses in the world.

3. The reason firehouses used to have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

4. 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year.

5. Arabians have one less rib, one less back vertebrae and one less neck vertebrae than other breeds. This is the reason why they have such short backs.  

6. Why do we always mount from the nearside of a horse?  Well, in olden days men used to wear scabbards for their swords on their left hip (so they could draw the sword quickly with their right hand.  If they had got on from the other side of the horse the sword would have got in the way!

Some terms:

Cross-firing -  Cantering on opposing leads in the front and rear legs. Results in and/or is the result of loss of balance in the canter. Also known as disunited.

Overo:  The pinto coat pattern having uneven/irregular splashes of white.  Tobiano:  The pinto coat pattern having smooth/regular patches of white. Tovero:  The pinto coat pattern which is a combination of the tobiano and overo patterns

Cryptorchid -  A stallion with one or both testicles retained in the abdomen.

Volte - A small circle - six metres in diameter.

Stance Phase - when at least one foot is in contact with the ground.

Swing Phase - when the hoof is lifted and brought forward.

Answer 10

Horses don't have a clavicle bone, or a gall bladder.  

However, your statement about Friesians cantering is a myth.  Friesians excel in Dressage where they not only canter, but canter with varying degrees of collection and extension.  Many Friesians are tremendously athletic.

Answer 11

horsess have dis thing called bonacular and monacular vision. bonacular vision is were a hosre kindof stifens. its ears pointed a certain derection and its eyes focused on a certain object. monacular vision is were one of he horses eyes can look one direction,and the other eye a different direction. and when they try to return to regular vision things go out of focus and they bcan spook them selves.

Answer 12

The horse is the mammal with the bigger eyes, horses have 300 degrees of vision, horses can't vomit, horses don't sleep deeply

Answer 13

Horses can't vomit. Nice.