CONFORMATION FAULTS

Here is a group of Conformation Faults -

HEAD FAULTS: Overshot Jaw - Parrot Mouth; Undershot Jaw - Monkey Mouth; Convex Head - Roman Nose; Small Eye; Glass/Blue Eyes (Purebred Classes Only); Coarse muzzle; Coarse, Meaty Features; Lop Ears; Narrow Eye Set; Excessive Length to Head; Large Coarse Ears; Wide Set Ears - Sheep Eared; Excessively Close Set Ears

FORE LEG FAULTS: Calf Knees - Sheep Knees - Back at Knee; Club Feet; Off Set Knees - Bench Knees; Bow Legs - Bandy Legged; Knock Knees - Knee Narrow; Straight or Short Pasterns; Coon Footed - Excessive Sloped Pasterns; Tied in Knees - Tied in Tendons; Splay Footed - Toes Out; Long Cannons - High Knees; Stands Wide - Base Wide; Stands Close - Base Narrow; Pigeon Toed - Toes In; Buck Knee - Knee Sprung

REAR LEG FAULTS: Post Legged; Camped Out; Long Cannons - High Hocks; Bow Legged - Bandy Hocked; Straight or Short Pasterns; Coon Footed; Stands Close - Base Narrow; Stands Wide - Base Wide; Stands Under - Sickle Hocked; Toe Out Cow Hocked

FOOT/HOOF FAULTS: Club Foot; Dished Foot; Contracted Narrow Feet - Mule Footed; Founder - Laminitis; Broken Axis of Pastern and Hoof; Feet Out of Balance

NECK FAULTS: Poor Hinge; Thick Throat; Excessive Heavy Neck; Ewe Shaped; Low Set; Straight Neck (No Shape); Short; Excessive Crest

BODY FAULTS: High Croup; Long Coupling - Long Back; Straight Shoulder; Flat Withers - Mutton Withers; Sway Back - Low in the Back; Rafter Hips; Short Croup; Short Hip; Shallow Body; Steep Sloping Hip

TAIL FAULTS: No Tail Carriage; Wry Tail; Low Set Tail

MOVEMENT FAULTS: Irregular Strides - Lameness; Stubby Movement; Choppy Stride; Short-Strided; Wings In; Lack Coordination; Paddles Out

BLEMISHES AND UNSOUNDNESS: Lameness or Soreness; Splints Caused from Faulty Conformation; Ring or Side Bone; Epiphysitis; Jack Spavin; Bowed Tendons; Cataract/Cloudy Eye; Ossolets; Curb; Hernia; Bog Spavin; Capped Hock; Capped Elbow; Thoroughpin; Wind Puffs - Joint Capsule Hygromas; Splints with no Faulty Conformation; Scars from Injuries

Here is a short conformation and action evaluation:

What is the breed? - Hot Blood, Warm Blood, Cold Blood, Horse, Pony

What is the selected use? - Performance, Show, Competition, Work, etc.

HEAD & NECK: breed and use; head – size, set; nose – shape; eyes – size, set, appearance; nostrils – size; mouth – shape; throatlatch/jowls – size, shape; neck – length, shape, set

BODY: breed and use; chest – width; shoulder – slope, muscle; withers – height, balance; body – shape, depth; back – length, shape; hips – level, width; rump – shape, muscle; stifle – shape; girth – depth; loin – length, width, musculature; hip and croup – slope, length, level.

LEG: breed and use; gaskin – length, muscle; forearm – length, muscle; cannons – length, bone; knees – size, set, shape; joints – size, shape; hock – size, shape; hindleg/frontleg – angle, shape, stance; pastern – length, slope, shape

HOOF: breed and use; symmetry, size, shape, balance, health.

OVERALL BALANCE: breed and use; symmetry, length-height proportion, levelness of topline, depth of heart girth to leg, center of the horse, top-to-bottom line ratio, square, thirds, equal lengths.

STRAIGHTNESS OF ACTION: breed and use; walk and trot up, walk and trot past, walk and trot away.

VARIATIONS OF STRAIGHT ACTION: breed and use; dishing, paddling, plaiting, crossfiring, forging, over reaching, speedy cutting, scalping, brushing.

WHEN I LOOK UP MOST OF THESE TERMS, I HAVE TO LOOK UP MORE WORDS FROM THE DEFINITION TO UNDERSTAND THE TERM. ....WELL, I GOTTA KNOW IT.