LOCATION OF COMMON LAMENESSES, UNSOUNDNESSES, AND BLEMISHES


 

LOCATION OF COMMON LAMENESSES, UNSOUNDNESS, AND BLEMISHES OF THE HORSE
1. Poll evil
2. Moon blindness or blindness
3. Parrolt mouth
4. Monkey mouth
5. Distemper (strangles) swelling
6. Sweeny (shoulder)
7. Shoe boil
8. Splint
9. Bowed tendon
10. Wind puffs
11. ring bone
12. Quittor
13. Navicular disease
14. Fistula (withers)
15. Stifled
16. Thoroughpin
17. Bone spavin
18. Bog spavin
19. Capped hock
20. Curb
21. Side bone
22. Feet--contracted feet (commonly shown in heels); corns; founder; thrush; quarter or sand crack; scratches or grease heel
23. Saddle galls
24. Hernia
25. Broken down hip
     

 

 

 

 

Credit Given to the Book, Basic Horsemanship, English and Western by Eleanor F. Prince and Gaydell M. Collier, first edition, with permission given by authors to use these diagrams

   
 
 
 

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