The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . of the straight, ordinary shoe,and is much more calculated toallow of the motion of the legand foot ; the labor of themuscles is also diminished, andthe limb being in its naturalposition, the ligaments haveless imposed upon them ; tlu yare more at ease, and conse-quentl
The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . of the straight, ordinary shoe,and is much more calculated toallow of the motion of the legand foot ; the labor of themuscles is also diminished, andthe limb being in its naturalposition, the ligaments haveless imposed upon them ; tlu yare more at ease, and conse-quently are not so liable to bestranunl. A moderate rounding at the toe would seem desirable in allcases where there is want of mobility. It is especially desirablewhen the horse is a little stiff or sore, as it enables him to travelmuch easier. This is proved Avhen the mobility of the foot isdestroyed, and theie is necessity for using a rounded shoe to con-form with the action, Wlien winter shoes, ov calk shoes, must be Fig. 479.—French shoe—taken from anold work. See Navicular Lameness. SHOEING. 661. Fig. 480.—Shoe too short and thick, with nails drivendeep, and too far hacls iu the quarters. ?used, the forward calk may be set well back in the toe, as shownby illustration. The object of nailing should be to hold the shoe firmly to thefoot without injur-ing the wall, and ,,ait«,rf;MI leave the foot as in- |.(^1II1W«»»1dependent of the re- |straint of the shoe at the quarters as pos-sible. The nailsshould be drivenwhere there will bemost secure nail-hold; more or less aswell as heavier nailsbeing necessary, inproportion to thethickness of the wall,weight of the shoe,and severity of the work. The wall is thickest and strongest at the toe or front, andbecomes thinner and more flexible toward the quarters and heels, especially so at the in-ner heels, where it issometimes exceedinglythin and flexible. By reference to , 429, it will beseen that there is con-siderable dif
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