Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . eptional cases is given inthe article on teeth. What to do.—The treatmentconsists in removing the cause ;give more work and less grain. Sometimes a hard-worked, ravenous horse will plunge his nose into amess of oats and throw half of them out, from sheer irritability of tem-per. Treat him kindly, however ; place a large angu
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . eptional cases is given inthe article on teeth. What to do.—The treatmentconsists in removing the cause ;give more work and less grain. Sometimes a hard-worked, ravenous horse will plunge his nose into amess of oats and throw half of them out, from sheer irritability of tem-per. Treat him kindly, however ; place a large angular stone, the size ofa mans double fist, in the center of the manger, and put the oats in Avithit, which will compel him to go about the matter more leisurely, andprevent him from throwing the grain out. VI. Pulling Back, and Breaking the Halter. This very bad habit commonly originates from the horse getting fright-ened, when, jumping suddenly back, he breaks the halter ; and as averagehorse sense knows that a thing once done can be done again, the jerkis repeated, in sportiveness or mischief, till it becomes a confirmed vice. What to do.—Have a very strong halter, and tie high on the manger,which will give the horse less power to pull than when tied low. Some. PLAYING WITH THE GRAIN. 53(j CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AJSTD COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. fecommend a small rope, passed under the tail and tied to the manger,which may act well in some cases. But tlie main point lies in so fasten-ing him that he cannot get away, when, after a few inettectual attempts,he w ill give it up. In halter breaking a colt, pass a rope behind him, so that he cannotpull full strength on the halter, and be very sure nothing is used withhim that will break; one accident of that kind may be enough to start apersistent bad habit. VII. Balking. This, though not strictly a stable vice, is so nearly allied thereto that itseems quite proper to treat of it in this connection. The best way tobreak a horse of
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