Video: Horse Anatomy: Head & Neck Region

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Horses share many pieces of anatomy with humans, but many significant horse parts might be less well known. Learn about horse anatomy and parts of a horse's head and neck from a ranch owner in this free horse care video.

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As we move into things that relate to the care of the horse, I find it imperative, that we understand some of the basic horse parts. Many of the horse parts equate to things that are on our body, so it's going to make that very simple, but I can promise you, there are many other parts that would stump, even some the most professional horse owners, so I like to pride myself from my 4-H background, on hoping to know many of the horse parts. We're going to start here with the head and neck. When we begin here, it's very simple. We can point out the basics. We've got ear, eye, muzzle, nostril, lips, forehead, jaw or jowl it might be called, as well as then we have some parts that are not as significant to the human body. You have what we call a throat latch, a very important part often identified, and fit of bridle. We have what we call the pole that part between the ears, that's significant, because you'll hear in training often, things about bending at the pole. Then we can follow down the top muscle of the horse, where the common part everybody knows, the mane, is attached, and that's called the crest. We have then the neck itself, and it moves into the shoulder. Those are the important parts of the horse, here in the head and neck region.

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Horse Anatomy: Head & Neck Region

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