ANS 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Foal, Estrous Cycle, Gestation
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Disease, not necessarily a basteria or viral, dist ease. Oftern horses will present with some type of disconfort and it resolves itself: colic, hooves. Expensive and concern: as animal scientists, trhink about biology and hows theres interaction between different systems in the body, hoof health. Have a terminal bone called the coffin bone: burried within hoof. On the outer layer of the horses hoof, outer material. At the top have coronet (cid:271)a(cid:374)d a(cid:374)d that"s where the hoof grows out a(cid:374)d e(cid:454)te(cid:374)ds fro(cid:373) Grows 1cm a month and takes a year for that hoof to completely grow out. Colts aprox 15 months: estrous cycle length. Horses are seasonally polyestrous, have multiable cycles in a year: long day breeders, breed when the days are long, in nature, under natrual conditions, mare cycle in spring and early summer, can use lights and trick animals.
