how many muscles are in a horses front legs?

Answer 1

There is a full list of the horses muscles in this link:
http://www.equiworld.net/uk/horsecare/anatomy/muscles.htm

Some of the muscles that work the front legs are located in the chest and shoulder of the horse. There are no muscles below the knee. The horses foreleg can be compared to the human finger. All the muscles that control finger movement are in the hand and arm, it is purely the tendons running from these muscles, through the fingers, which enable us to move them. The same goes for the horses legs.

There is a good diagram of the horses muscles, if you scroll down the link on this page:
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.aqha.com/bin/q/j/muscles.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.aqha.com/association/who/thehorse.html&h=306&w=350&sz=30&hl=en&start=2&tbnid=H-s9acQD1sgzSM:&tbnh=105&tbnw=120&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhorse%2Bmuscles%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

Answer 2

Actually not as many as you would think. All of the muscle is in the upper legs...and if I'm thinking right there are onlya couple of groups of muscles up there. Horses legs have a whole lot of tendons...that's what causes most of the problems.

Answer 3

If you want a severely gross bit of information a horse can trot with all the muscles in it's legs severed. The entire system is automated by the tendons. I'm not saying they trot well or live long after it happens though. It's just an experiment our anatomy teacher explained to us in farrier school. They did it at college.

Answer 4

A horse has no muscles in its legs below the knees and hocks, only skin and hair, bone, tendons, ligaments, cartilage, and the assorted specialized tissues that make up the hoof