The family horse : its stabling, care and feedingA practical manual for horse-keepers . SELECTI]S^G THE HORSE. 19 in a healthy hoof. It is a suspicious ciixumstance if these are filedoff and the hoof made smooth. The fact is, nothing is a surer indexof previous good health than the hoof. If a horse has a fit of sick-ness the hoofs cease growing, and when they begin again withreturning health they all show a ridge ; so if from any cause onefoot is affected by fever, or a wound, it alone will show it almostcertainly by increased or decreased growth, as the case may Fig. 22.—COW-HOCKED. Fig.
The family horse : its stabling, care and feedingA practical manual for horse-keepers . SELECTI]S^G THE HORSE. 19 in a healthy hoof. It is a suspicious ciixumstance if these are filedoff and the hoof made smooth. The fact is, nothing is a surer indexof previous good health than the hoof. If a horse has a fit of sick-ness the hoofs cease growing, and when they begin again withreturning health they all show a ridge ; so if from any cause onefoot is affected by fever, or a wound, it alone will show it almostcertainly by increased or decreased growth, as the case may Fig. 22.—COW-HOCKED. Fig. 23.—BOW LEGS. The -joints are large, hard, bony, and free from meat or the hocks and knees the bone of the leg is flat, and of goodsize for the weight of the animal; the cords are hard as bone, freefrom muscle, and the skin free from scars and drawn tightly overthe whole. Avoid slender pasterns. The pastern bones and thoseforming the pedal joint should have all the breadth and soHditypossible. The muscular portion of the legs—the fore arms andthighs—should be large and even, and the muscles should stand outindividually distinct and hard. Unsoundness and Blemishes.—It is impossible to detect withcertainty all the diseases and various forms of unsoundness to whichahorse is liable. Unsoundness has been judicially defined as aninfirmity which renders the horse less fit for immediate use than heOtherwise would be. and less able to perform the proper and ordinary 20 THE FAMILY HORSE. labor of a horse, (Robert vs. Jenkins, 21 New Hamp., 116). T
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