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Horse Breeds and Care Guide: Essential Tips and Facts for Horse Owners

Explore various horse breeds, from Clydesdales to Mustangs, their uses, sizes, and characteristics. Learn essential horse care tips from nutrition to reproduction to keep your horse healthy and thriving. Discover interesting horse terms and facts in this comprehensive guide.

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Horse Breeds and Care Guide: Essential Tips and Facts for Horse Owners

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  1. Horse Production They’re not just for glue anymore

  2. Horses • Draft Horses: used for pulling loads • Light Horses: not used for draft • Average cost to keep a horse for one year = $800

  3. Clydesdale

  4. Percheron

  5. 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. (1600’s) • most heavily muscled light horse • 14-16 hands tall at withers • Hand = 4”

  6. Quarterhorse

  7. 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

  8. Thoroughbred

  9. Appaloosa

  10. 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

  11. Arabian

  12. Standardbred

  13. Tennessee Walking Horse

  14. 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

  15. Morgan

  16. American Paint

  17. Pinto

  18. Palomino

  19. Pony of America

  20. Lipazzon

  21. Mustang

  22. Shetland

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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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