Riding level 4 answers

You will now have access to new information about breeding, genetics and the directory that list all players' breeds.
The Howrse study guide at the bottom should give you more clues.
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Rivenwoods Study Guide

Proper care, recognition, and treatment of illness and injury is essential for your horse to thrive.
Maintenence for your horse's health is very importantant; as the saying goes 'an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure'. Horses should be de-wormed every 3 months and vaccinated twice a year, more frequently if they show or have frequent contact with other horses they do not live with. Worms can become encrusted in the stomach, causing a myriad of serious problems. Vaccinations help prevent horses from getting common ilnesses, such as the Rhino virus and West Nile Virus. The Rhino Virus can be recognized as it has similar symptoms as the common cold does in humans, though left unchecked it can cause paralysis and lost foals in pregnant mares. The West Nile Virus is more serious, and more often fatal. Fever, inability to swallow, paralysis, impaired vision, and convulsions can occur in a horse infected with West Nile. Because there is no cure for West Nile, it is extremely important to vaccinate against the disease.
Keeping your pastures clean is necessary to maintain good health. Horses left standing in mud can develop an infection in the hoof called Thrush, and succumb to Mud Fever, which causes painful bleeding sores on a horse's legs. Destruction of poisonous plants is also important (if you fear you horse has ingested a poisonous plant, watch for difficulty breathing and loss of interest in food. Call your Vet immediately). Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis, also known as EPM, is a nuerologically damaging and fatal disease carried by opossums and raccoons, transmittable to horses when a horse grazes where an opossum or raccoon has left droppings. If your horse is allergic to bee stings, it would benefit the horse greatly to install bee traps in your barn and next to the gate of his turnout, to help prevent stings.
Some diseases cannot be easily prevented, and testing must be performed to insure your horse is not a carrier. HYPP, or Hyperkalemic Periodic Paralysis Disease, is a muscular disease inherited from a horse's parents, and afflicted horses often suffer from muscle weakness, paralysis, and sudden heart attacks. SCID, or Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, is also known as "Bubble Boy Syndrome". Affected horses are born with a severely imparied, or effectively no immune system. Horses suffering from SCID often die as foals from inability to fight off common bacteria, virus or infection.
Horses are also prone to injury. Nearly every rider has sometime in their life had experience with a thrown shoe. If this occurs, you should use a boot to protect your horse's hoof. If a boot is not available, pad the hoof with cotton and securely wrap it, and call your farrier. Bowed tendons are another common injury, usually occurring when a horse has a 'bad step'; a trip, or a step into a hole. While bowed tendons never completely heal, by allowing a horse time to rest, giving them Veterinary perscribed anti-inflammitories, and taking them on short walks to build up strength will allow them to again lead a fairly normal life with light riding. Veterinary guidance and supervision is very important while your horse heals from a bowed tendon.

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