A horse's hock is located on the back legs of the horse. It is the joint that would act as a knee for the horse and is the large joint located about half way up the horse's leg.
Additional information: in comparative anatomy the hock joint is equivalent to a human ankle so it bends backward instead of forward. The stifle joint in a horse actually the same as a human knee joint.
It is like the back of the knee on a horses hind legs.
The joint between the horse's hock and hip is called the Stifle joint.
this long bone that runs from the hock to the fetlock is called the cannon bone
They are called hock boots and they are worn to protect th horses leg when jumping.
A horses leg is called a leg, but it has several names for different areas of the leg like cannon, hock and gaskin.
Chestnut applies to horses in two ways; one is the color, which is reddish brown. Another is the bony protrusion from above the horses knee in the front, and from the inner hock on the back. This is in no way harmful to horses, it is present on all horses.
Horses have two knees, one on each foreleg. The equivalent joint in the hindlegs is called the hock.
For a young horses' joints to fully fuse, it takes 3-5 years. This is why horse racing is very dangerous because the horses are not fully developed. Do not jump/race/work hard with immature horses!
It depends on wich part you are talking about. there are three. The feltlock, the pastern, and the ergot.
Because there is no muscle below the knee/hock to cushion the bones
It is the muscle on the upper part of a horses hind leg, above the hock.
A capped hock.
Jonathan Hock's birth name is Jonathan Richard Hock.