Cold-blooded, Hot-blooded, and Warm-blooded, none of these terms have anything to do with the horses blood at all. Rather, they are terms used to describe breed types. Hot-blooded breeds include Thoroughbreds, Arabians, Barbs, Turks, Syrians, or a mixture of those breeds. The heavy drafts and cross-bred horses are often considered cold-blooded, while Hanoverians, Trakeheners and Dutch warmbloods are warm-blooded, which can trace their roots back to drafts with refinement from hot-blooded breeds, most commonly Arabians and Thoroughbreds.
There are so many products on the market today, I felt like some clarification could be used to determine how to treat your horses injury. First off, you must identify which leg is lame. Have somebody else lead the horse at a trot towards you. in a straight line on level ground. Watch the front legs, The head will bob DOWN on the sound leg, and up on the lame leg. If you suspect it is a hind leg, then have somebody trot the horse away from you, and watch the hips, determine which one hikes up higher than the other. That is the lame leg. If you have a difficult time determining which leg, you can use white tape on the horses buttock to help you determine which side is lifting. " Heat on one side indicates possible inflammation. To assess tendons (on the back of the lower portions of the legs), flex the leg and feel the layers of tendons (should be three) for any bumps, sources of heat or breaks." ( Read more at : http://www.ehow.com/how_2165863_do-quick-effective-lameness...
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