Magner's ABC guide to sensible horseshoeing : a simple and practical treatise on the art of shoeing horses . Fig. 374.—Six Weeks. 122 HOW TO TELL THE AGE. age of a horse up to eight years, I will try to give such an explana-tion of them as will serve to aid the general reader in catching the points of these changes most clearly. When the colt is one week old, the twocentral nippers are grown about as representedin Fig. 373. In from five to six weeks, another. incisor will appear on either side of the two first, and the mouth will appear something like Fig. 374. At two months they will have rea
Magner's ABC guide to sensible horseshoeing : a simple and practical treatise on the art of shoeing horses . Fig. 374.—Six Weeks. 122 HOW TO TELL THE AGE. age of a horse up to eight years, I will try to give such an explana-tion of them as will serve to aid the general reader in catching the points of these changes most clearly. When the colt is one week old, the twocentral nippers are grown about as representedin Fig. 373. In from five to six weeks, another. incisor will appear on either side of the two first, and the mouth will appear something like Fig. 374. At two months they will have reached their natural level, and between the „ «..«,. second and third months the second pair will Fig. 375.—One Year Old. , , , _, .,, i , • have overtaken them, i hey will then begm to wear away a little, and the outer edge, which was at firstsomewhat raised and sharp, is brought to a level with the inner one ;and so the mouth continues until sometime between the sixth and ninth months,when another nipper begins to appear oneach side of the two first, making sixabove and below, and completing thecolts mouth ; after which the only ob-servable difference, until between the sec-ond and third years, is in the wear ofthese teeth. The teeth are covered with a polished,hard substance, called enamel. It spreadsover that portion of the teeth which ap-pears above the gum ; and not only so, but as they are to be somuch employed in nipping the grass, and g
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