A&H Equine

Genus and species of Horse?

Equus callabus

Name of marking?

Star

Name of marking?

Stripe

Name of marking?

Blaze

Name of marking?

Snip

Name of making?

Blaze and snip

Name of marking?

Star and stripe

Name of marking?

Bald face

Type of leg?

Coronet

Type of leg?

Pastern

Type of leg?

Fetlock

Type of leg?

Sock

Type of leg?

Stocking

What is Sorrel?

Bright, reddish brown, copper accompanied by a usually blonde mane or tail

What’s interesting about Sorrel?

They have a recessive ee genotype which prevents them from having any black!

What is Chestnut?

Darker, liver-colored accompanied with a mane and tail of the same color

They are NEVER black and have the same ee genotype sorrels do.

What is Bay?

Reddish brown, brown, black points

There is also a light/mahoganny bay

Seal brown, describe it

Appear black, but identified as brown by patches on flank, muzzle, behind back leg

Describe black

Black all around

The horses also have black skin and dark brown eyes

Foal Camo

• 15-16 hands

• Brought to North America by Spanish Explorers and were mixed with Mustang herds and became popular with Native Ameicans

• Used for ranch work, rodeos, racing, showing

• Has 3 color patterns
  
  

American Paint Horse

14.3-16 hands
Can be any color
Most POPULAR breed in the U.S.
Fine head with a straight profile, well-muscled

American Quarterhorse

15-16 hands

Any color

From the Southern US: Lexington, Kentucky

Quarters smoothly muscled with a mere level croup and a high-set tail.

American Saddlebred

From Spain

Andalusian

16 hands

Many colors or blanket or leopard

Region covering parts of Washington and Idaho

Coat Pattern,Mottled skin, White Sclera, and Striped hooves are needed for registry.

Has 7 coats

Appaloosa

Unclear origin, evidence suggests it existed on the Arabian Penninsula around 2500 B.C.

- Compact Horse
- Short back
- Long, slender, hard clean legs with defined tendons
- Head tapers into small nuzzle
- Large nostrils
- Crazy horse

Arabian

700-900 lbs

Native to the low country of SC

Critically endangered

Belong to a group of Colonial Spanish Breeds brought by Spanish Explorers

STATE HORSE

Carolina Marsh Tacky

Golden, chestnut, sorrel, pale chestnut

From the Medieval times in Europe; most come from Austria or Northern Italy

- Used in jumping, packing, pleasure-driving, jessage

Halflinger

Solid color

From Germany and considered a “German Warmblood”

Have a H brand on their left hind quarter

Hanoverian

Name comes from a phenomenal stallion named ‘figure’ who later beecame known as Justin Morgan

Morgan

Everything about them varies

Free roaming horse of the Westen United States

Bureau of Land Management has codes on it

Mustang

Many colors

They England during the 17th-18th century

Strong quaters, long hind legs, no fleshiness in jowel

Thoroughbred

Usually bay, but some other

From the Southeast soon after 1800’s on Southern Plantations

Come from Throroughbred, Saddlbred, Arabian, and Morgan Stock

Long slender necks, plain head, used long distance riding, pleasure riding, and exhibtion riding

American Standard Breed

Mainly black or all shades of Chestnut

From Tennessee in the mid-19th century

Used on plantations

Developed from Thoroughbred, Standardbred, Morgan bred, and Saddlebred cross

Used as an elite showhorse

It has a 4-beat gait

Tennessee Walking Horse

From Eastern Kentucky in the Appalachian Mountains

Used for travelling, farm work, pulling buggies

They are sure-footed, well adpated, broad-chested, have bold eyes, and have a 4 beat gait

Rocky Mountain Horse

From South America and brought to America by Christopher Columbus

has a 4-beat gait with 3 speeds

Strong back

Large eyes

Intelligent

Used in sugar cane plaintations in Puerto Rico mountainous regions in Columbia

Paso Fino

less than 500 lbs

From England

Small ears, straight head, compact body

Hackney

From Mason City, Iowa from a man named Lesley Boomhower

Shetland, Apoloosa cross cross

Used for showing for kids

Pony of the Americas

From Indianna

Good depth girth

Shetland

From Wales

A= Smallest
D= Tallest

They are symmetric and balanced

They have an Arabian influence head

Long well-muscled forelimbs

Welsh

From Belgium

Docile, heavy-muscled

Belgian

From France

Dapple grey, black, bay, chestnut

Broad, deep-chested

Percheron

Black with white feathering, grey, bay, brown

From England

Cleanr, hard, muscular legs

TALLEST HORSE!

Shire

Piebald, Skwebald,Blagdan, Odd-colored are a few to name

From England, Wales, Ireland

Used today for pleasure-riding, cutting cattle

Gypsy Vanner

From england

1300lbs

From England

Fresian

Donkey

150-200 pounds

From South America

Miniature Horse

What color is this?

Sorrel: blonde hair

What color is this?

Chestnut

Dark, liver-colored, mane and tail same color as body

What color is this?

Bay, reddish brown

What color is this?

Brown

What color is this?

Black

Stallion definition

Intact male equine greater than 4 years old

Colt

Intact male equine less than 4 years-old

Mare

Intact female equine greater than 4 years-old

Filly

Intact female equine less than 4 years-old

Gelding

Castrated Male Equine

Foal

Young equine of either sex

Weanling

Young equine less than 1 year-old that has not been removed (weaned) from its mother

Yearling

Young equine between 1-2 years old

Foaling

Giving birth to equine

Herd

Group of equine

Brood Mare

Breeding female equine

Maiden mare

Female equine never bred

Pony

Equine between 8.2-14.2 hands when mature

Jack

Intact male donkey

Jenny

Intact female donkey

Mule

Offspring of a Jack and a Mare

Hinny

Offspring of a Stallion and a Jenny