Demodectic mange is rare in horses. The mites live in the hair follicles and oil glands or in the eyelids and muzzle. The signs of demodectic mange in horses can include patchy hair loss and scaling or skin lumps. Signs appear on the face, neck, shoulders, and forelimbs. What does Read more…
Normal Anatomy[edit | edit source] The forelimb (also known as the thoracic limb) in the horse is adapted for extension and ground covering. This limb carries 55 to 60 percent of the horse’s body weight, and a large proportion of the rider’s weight as well. What is the function of Read more…
History of the Irish Sport Horse This breed excels in competition and is often found in Jumping and Eventing shows, as well as Dressage. Can Irish Draught horses do dressage? Today, the breed is known for its athleticism and fortitude and is often crossed with Thoroughbreds and warmbloods to produce Read more…
Symptoms of Hematoma in Horses The most noticeable symptom is usually a soft lump somewhere on the horse’s body which can become quite large. Some hematomas may cause unexplained bleeding, such as the ethmoid hematoma, which causes nosebleeds; other hematomas, like ovarian hematomas, may have no outward symptoms. How do Read more…
General Information. Journeyman’s Horse is a tier 3 Farm Animal grown by using Journeyman’s Foal or purchased from the Marketplace. Growing a Journeyman’s Horse requires Harvester on the Destiny Board. How do I get a horse or ox in Albion online? Journeyman’s Ox is a tier 3 Farm Animal grown Read more…
Anatomy. The carpal canal encloses the carpal synovial sheath, which contains the superficial (SDFT) and deep (DDFT) digital flexor tendons. What tendons pass through the carpal tunnel? The carpal tunnel contains nine tendons: the flexor pollicis longus, the four flexor digitorum superficialis and the four flexor digitorum profundus as well Read more…
A horse exercise sheet is a light rug designed to be worn while riding. It is intended to protect the horse’s sensitive kidney area from draughts and cold temperatures. This is of course especially important for clipped horses. The sheet covers only the back of the animal and has an Read more…
The chestnut is thought to correspond to the wrist pad of dogs and cats, or to be a vestigial scent gland similar to those found in some deer and other animals. The domestic horse is almost alone among extant equines in having chestnuts on the hind legs. Chestnuts are absent Read more…
Your horse’s skin is resilient yet surprisingly sensitive. Are horses sensitive to touch? Horses’ sense of touch is much more sensitive than humans’—especially their noses. Their whiskers—coarse tactile hairs called vibrissae around the muzzle and eyes—are important sense organs gathering information about the environment, helping sort hay from baling twine, Read more…
Horses are considered the “champion sweat producers” of all our domestic animals, and have two types of sweat glands: apocrine and eccrine glands. The primary sweat glands are the apocrine glands. Do horses have sweat glands? Sweat glands are part of the horse’s system to regulate body temperature. They are Read more…