Horse Production

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Horse Production

• Theyre not just for glue anymore

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Horses

• Draft Horses used for pulling loads
• Light Horses not used for draft
• Average cost to keep a horse for one year 800

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Clydesdale
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Percheron
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Horse Breeds

• Quarter Horse working ranch horse
• AQHA largest horse breed assoc. in U.S.
• fast sprinter (1/4 mile) quarter horse
• first breed developed in U.S. (1600s)
• most heavily muscled light horse
• 14-16 hands tall at withers
• Hand 4

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Quarterhorse
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Horse Breeds

• Thoroughbred horse shows racing
• faster at longer distances (1/4 - 2 miles)
• jumping hunting competitions
• 15-17 hands tall
• Appaloosa pleasure parade horse
• eye circled by white, skin is mottled

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Thoroughbred
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Appaloosa
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Horse Breeds

• Arabian oldest recorded breed
• endurance, heat tolerant
• known for good looks
• 14-15 hands tall
• Standardbred harness racing
• Tennessee Walking Horse fancy gait (walk)
• American Saddlebred riding, show, parade

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Arabian
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Standardbred
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Tennessee Walking Horse
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Horse Breeds

• Morgan parade, hunting, jumping
• American Paint Horse rodeo
• solid color on head with white spots on body or
  visa-versa
• Pinto spotted, good behavior, family horse
• Palomino golden with ivory mane tail
• Pony of America larger than Shetland Pony 11-13
  hands tall

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Morgan
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American Paint
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Pinto
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Palomino
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Pony of America
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Lipazzon
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Mustang
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Shetland
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Horse Care

• Nutrition will eat 1 1/2 - 3 of body wt daily
• feed smaller amounts than cows, more frequently
• 10-12 gallons of water / day
• hays, grains, supplements
• 4 parts roughage to 1 part concentrate
• more grain if horse is working

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Horse Care

• Reproduction low conception rate
• Mares more likely to conceive in spring
• Health colic (abdominal pain) broken bones
  most serious
• Vaccinate annually
• Worm regularly at least twice / year

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Horse Terms

• What do you call a mature male?
• Stallion
• What do you call a mature female?
• Mare
• What do you call a castrated male?
• Gelding

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Horse Terms

• What do you call a young horse?
• foal or colt
• What do you call an immature female?
• Filly
• What do you call the act of giving birth?
• Foaling
• What is the gestation for a horse?
• 330 days

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