Horse Behavior

No, but they get a "stable vice" that consists of a horse sucking in air. Some people put a "cribbing strap" around the horses throat in hopes of preventing the problem, but there is no sure solution. (stable vices are caused by lack of excersize, hunger, boredom, etc.)

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YES they can get hiccups it is sometimes caused when they eat to fast my horse got it today it actually quite funny lol

Yes, it is called thumps. it gets its name from following the rythmatic pattern of the horses heart. It occurs from over exercise and or dehydration and electrolyte imbalance. The spasm of the heart creates the thumps which is why it follows the pattern of the horses heart beat. Your horse will get pulled from a show due to this but a simple fluid IV and rest can cure the thumps.

A Gelding horse is a horse that has been altered or "fixed" no longer can reproduce offspring. They typically behave very well, it all depends on their environment and whether they have been abused or neglected by people. Also remember all horses have personalities, just like any dog or cat. They can be very sweet and gentile, or very playful, or very mischief. So take the time to observe the horse to see if it will blend with your personality before you purchase one and always get a vet checkup.

Cribbing is what is known as a stable vice. This destructive behaviour is usually limited to confined horses that are nervous and/or bored. It is the horse's way to dissipate execess energy and entertain himself. It is not only destructive to your fences and barn but is bad for the horse. Consuming wood is not healthy, and many horses when cribbing also 'wind suck' or take in air into the digestive tract. In the worst case scenario a horse could develope colic.

Prevention is the best solution. If possible, the horse should be let out or at least exercised on a regular basis. Adjust the horse's feed, to much sweetfeed results in too much energy for the stalled equine. You can treat the wood your horse is exposed to with pepper sprays especially for this purpose. Cribbing devices or collars can help also. But the ideal situation is to reduce the horse's time in the small enclosure as much as possible. Horses, biologically speaking, evolved in wide open spaces, this is where they are the most comfortable and happy.

There are many variables. For short hauls to the vet, farrier or another barn, with a healthy horse that is alone. I allow them access of the whole trailer. I personally do not tie them in or restrict their movement with dividers. After many years, I have never had a problem with a horse that was not restricted.

When going on linger hauls, hauling horses that are not used to trailers or not feeling well, restraint becomes needed. Tying the head to a breakaway strap and putting hay for them to munch on is the norm.

The divider is always placed in for these hauls. We also make sure we stop plenty of times during the warmest part of the day to give them water. Night hauling you can get further between stops, but checking is a great idea.

Some horses get a little spooky trying to get them in a trailer. Drugging is a last resort, but can be required. Training your horse before you start hauling is what I recommend. All of my horses load instantly (bragging here) because we regularly walk them in and out of trailers. If you have a spooky horse, you may wish to review some of the other things you do with the horse.

They tend to take on aspects of their riders. Are you getting jumpy and nervious around the trailer?

After hauling hundreds of horses thousands of miles, I can say that nothing is always the rule. Straight rigs, slants, big horses and small. They all have different abilities and challenges in the hauling of them.

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Wizard101

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Runescape

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Hope that helps!!

i could give you some funny answers but, the straight answer is, "yes". I am a pilot and I have a friend that has flown with distinguished horses as his PX (passenger). The horses are not allowed to be sedated and they must be accompanied by a handler. The horses are not fed or watered while en route.The handler can be the trainer, a veterinarian or the owner and etc.. They are put into a specialized padded "tie stall" that can be lifted into the hold with a forklift. The hold is pressurized and climate controlled. The forklift ride seems to be the most stressful part of the trip for the horse so for their own protection they are fully enclosed. The most stressful time of the trip for the owner may be when he pays the BILL.. It is not a cheap ride. Yes. FedEx has a special animal charter flights that are available upon request. They have special stalls that hold the horses and extra seats and oxygen for the caretakers. The MD-11F can carry 84 horses on one flight from Canada to Japan. And these are the large breed of horses like the Belgian horses. The horses are mildly sedated. And you may ask why ship Belgian horses to Japan? It is a delicacy. They feed the horses for a few months to let them gain weight. The shipping cost is about ~$2000 for each horse, but the horse steak sells for about $300 per lb. The horses are shipped from Canada because the USA out-lawed the meat processing of horses. Canada has plants that process horses for food and other uses. Custermen

Current regs are a V-8 engine, 2.4 liters, normally aspirated, limited to 19,000rpm, weighing no less than 95kg. Cylinders must have 4 valves, single spark plug and single injector, and variable valve timing is not allowed. Cylinder blocks must be aluminum alloy, crankshaft and cams iron alloy, and pistons aluminum alloy. Composites are not allowed in the engine structural elements. The starter system is not part of the engine system- external removable starters are required. Engines may have anti stall devices, but must shut down within ten seconds after an accident. regs change. Answer Basic specifications include that the engine has a capacity limit of 3.0 litres and must have ten cylinders. However, there is a host of other regulations concerning height, width, weight, braking systems etc, plus many more.

F1 cars in for more then 10 years used 3.0 litre V10 engines that very capable of producing 980 to 1000HP. After the FIA started taking notice F1 car engines were limited to 2.4 litres producing 750HP.

How to stop a cough depends on what is causing it. Coughs can be due to respiratory infections, allergies or simple inhaled irritants. You need to determine the cause to determine the cure.

On average, a horse's heart beats about 40 times a minute.

If you're thinking of killing yourself, go seek help !!!!

Take a scrumpled up piece of tissue or paper and place it in your armpit. Apply gentle inward pressure with your arm and voila, no pulse (on that side, people!).

Yes.

For the cough you can try stream or humidified air, over the counter cough preparations (the ones with antihistamines and decongestants are recommended) and treat the underlying cause. If you have a virus you mostly need to treat the symptoms and ride it out. If it is from bacteria that can be treated (but this is a small minority of cases) and if you are smoking you can stop.

If you are wheezing, which can also cause a cough by itself, there really are not a lot of effective home remedies and so you should see your doctor for prescription medication.

Trust can be on different levels my friend. If you are referring to trusting your spouse then TRUST THEM WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT. They wil in turn trust you gradually and it will last a lifetime. Or create a scene where you can make her/him believe that you deserve their trust.

A filly is a young female horse or pony a colt is a young male horse a mare is a grown up female horse a stallion is a male horse that hasn't been gelded a gelding is a male horse that has been gelded

A bell boot.

Neighing, nickering, whinnying, snorting, other sounds too.

Should you? if possible yes. But on the other hand if you HAVE to handle your horse while it is eating then the horse should accept this.

Sometimes you dont have time to wait around to let your horse eat before putting his rugs on etc and if you have to dont worry about it but it is nice to leave them to eat alone =]

Since horses- when allowed to- spend about 16 hours a day eating, you should, because what if you need to ride or groom your horse during that 16 hours? Or if he has a vet appointment? True, he will want to keep eating, but you have to not let him walk all over you or he will try to get away with other stuff.

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Ok, so even before you put the saddle on, you should do ground work with the horse. You should lunge him, walk him around the pasture, anything to get him moving again. Pat Parelli makes really good DVD's on this type of stuff. Level one is all about building your relationship with your horse before you get on. It's crutial you do this so the horse will trust you. If you have a lunging whip, just rub all over the horse with it so it gets comfortable.

If you want to hurry and ride, you may want to get the sadle and just out it on the horse's back, go ahead and tack him up, but just lunge so he gets used to the feeling of weight on his back again.

No, a horse's mood does not change once you shave them. Although they may give you a little trouble when you are shaving them(they might not like the sound and vibration of the trimmers) it does not alter their overal behavior.

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This comes from Greek Mythology due to a constellation called Centaurus, which resembles a horse's body with a man's head and torso. Centaurus is a bright constellation in the southern sky. One of the largest constellations, it resembles a half-man/half-horse. However, there is no such thing as a half man half horse.

What must be remembered is that neither animal is better adapted than the other to escape or face a predator. Horses and cattle are two very different animals, with different behaviours, different defense strategies, and thus different ways of responding to predation. A horse maybe better adapted at escaping, but that is only seeing the trees for the forest. See, to compare escape or defense strategies between a cow and a horse is like comparing the taste between an apple and an orange, for obvious reasons.

Horses, unlike cattle, are literally (physically and genetically) built to run, and often travel, in the wild, 12 to 14 miles in a day. Wild cattle, though none exist anymore, can travel about the same, but never in a full-out gallop for a quarter of a mile (or sometimes miles, if it's necessary) like feral horses like the western American mustangs are famously capable of. Cattle choose to walk as a means to travel, not run, but if they must, they will run, and often are very capable of running as fast as a horse, given the need and circumstances. Hence the fact that a horse can "run faster" is moot in many cases. Also, like a horse, bull or a cow can be (and often are) much more agile and swift than we give them credit for or even realize and understand.

Hence, the mode of escape for both prey species--one of Equus and the other of Bos--is through flight. The other means of escape is to never be alone and to always be within a tight-nit, highly social group. This in itself ensures survival. However, a horse may seem like it is better adapted because when the common person envisions a horse, he or she envisions that horse as a wild and free animal like the "wild" mustangs of the American West. By contrast, when we envision the classic large-uddered, black-and-white Holstein cow surrounded by lush green pasture and enclosed in a fenced area, with no means of escape and, therefore, no percieved adaptations to escape predation. Both of these visions are erroneous.

Horses, like cattle, are often enclosed, with no escape, in a stall, a small corral, or a fenced pasture. A cougar or bear can easily enter that enclosure and cause as much damage as it wants because that horse cannot escape--and the horse knows it. This results in a significant vet bill for the owner if the horse survives, or, if dead, emotional turmoil at the loss of a beloved animal. On the other side of the coin, not all cattle are the big-bagged helpless dairy cow like many of us think it--or she--may be. Cattle can and often are confined in a larger area, but many are also often "confined" to a large, 1000-acre piece of land where they are free to roam as they please and live their lives as much as a human would allow them to in a similar way to their wilder ancestors. On that land, so exists predators--wolves, bears, cougars, and coyotes. For a cow in that area, flight may work, but so will the ability to fight back. A cow, armed with horns and hooves, can deter a predator from nabbing her calf by using her horns. Cows will readily form a tight group like bison with their calves in the middle when predators come around. They will form as tight-nit a social group as wild horses will. And when push comes to shove, if one cow gets in it with, say, a bear, other cows will too. A cow can kick, gore, stomp with her front hooves or, if she lacks horns, cause blunt-force trauma to a predator enough to break bones and send it flying.

It's not going without saying that horses can't fight back either. Stallions, in protecting their harem, will utilize their hard hooves to strike and/or kick at the enemy when it's needed. A good bite also does the trick. A well-aimed kick can knock a cougar senseless, and a bite is often hard enough to draw blood and result in serious wounds--this would explain the battle wounds feral stallions get when they get in a tiff with their rivals.

However, based on biased notions and naivities, the question cannot be answered with a straight, seemingly "no-nonsense" answer without examining the ambiguities that come with it. As such, it is impossible--and possibly foolish, depending on how you look at it--to ascertain that a horse is "better adapted" at escaping from predators than cows if the only evidence used is that of romantisized envisions of seemingly-docile farm life and wild horses running free.

A filly is a young female horse, and will therefore gro up to be a mare. A foal or colt grows up to be a stallion/gelding.

In the context of weight, "pt" typically stands for "pint," which is a unit of volume often used for liquids. However, if you are referring to weight specifically, it could be a misinterpretation since "pt" is not a standard abbreviation for weight measurements like pounds (lb) or kilograms (kg). It's essential to clarify the context to determine the correct meaning.