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Quick Snippets for your reference.
Your friend says there’s a grullo (pronounced gru-yoh). It’s a Color,
not a Breed. A grullo is mouse colored or smokey. It is not a mixture of black and white hairs (a Blue Roan). A Grullo usually
has a black mane and tail and black on the bottom portion of the legs. It may also have a dorsal stripe. (Dorsal means on
the back).
Factors that effect the foot/hoof: Heredity, Management, Nutrition, Shoeing/trimming, Exercise.
An
effective Western Pleasure Horse is slightly back at the knee.
An effective Reining Horse is slightly cow hocked.
30%
of all Horses are boarded.
65% of a horse's weight is carried on the front legs.
70% of all horses are
used for pleasure and recreation.
Posting is a forward and back motion, not up and down (as demonstrated in the image
to the left).
Horses are rear wheel driven.
Normal temperature for horses is 100+/- 1 degree.
Normal
Pulse Rate for a horse is 40+/- 6 BPM.
Lame horses in the front drop their heads at the trot.
Duct Tape will
waterproof a bandage.
The trot is a two beat gait. The walk is a four beat gait. The canter is a three beat gait.
Some Saddlebreds are three gaited, some are five gaited.
The "Rack" is an exaggerated walk with a very pronounced
up and down motion of the legs.
The horses' natural response to fear is flight.
Bone Spavin is osteoarthritis
in the hock joints.
Gait is the horses' way of going.
Good conformation is wasted without disposition and
heart.
A "Star" is any white mark above the bottom of the eyes.
A "Strip" is any white mark below the eyes,
above the nostrils and between the nasal bones.
"Parrot Mouth" is an overbite and may be a serious conformation fault.
"Ligaments" connect bone to bone.
The horses' field of vision is 300 degrees.
Horses cannot see the
food they eat.
Horses have binocular and monocular vision. They use monocular vision when looking to the side or rear.
The image is different in each eye.
In a breeze, a white sheet may look like a large animal jumping out at the horse
due to its monocular vision.
A horse approaching a jump cannot see it when he gets within 4 feet of it.
Due
to placement of the eyes, horses cannot see anything in the center of the forehead.
Mares do not always have K9 teeth.
At about age 10 a groove starts to form in the upper corner teeth - "Galvaynes Groove"
A Horse "over reaches"
when the toe of the hind foot grabs the front heel.
There are 7 Million Horses in the USA.
Things to consider
when buying a horse:
Breed of horse
Temperament of horse
Styles of riding
Experience of rider
Age of horse
Horse's level of training
Horse's overall health
Any previous injury to horse
Water:
Your horse must
have plenty of clean, fresh water available at ALL times. A horse will drink 10 to 12 gallons of water each day, depending
on temperature, humidity levels, ration content and work load. In the winter months, stock tank heaters will help stop ice
build-up so that water is ALWAYS accessible to the horse.
Hay:
Legume (alfalfa and clover) hay is higher in protein
than grass hay so you need to feed less (weight) legume hay than grass hay. Grass hay will keep the horse busy eating longer
and prevent boredom.
In some states, alfalfa is cut up to six times per year. Later cuttings may have higher protein content.
Do not switch diets abruptly between grass and alfalfa. Hays in your region will vary in type and cost. Consult your veterinarian
as to what is best for your horse.
Hay for horses must be mold and dust free.
Weeds have limited nutritional value.
Weed seeds can be passed through the manure and infest your pasture. Buy hay that is free of weeds as some weeds are poisonous
to horses
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