. The care of horses : a book for all who have practical charge of horses. Horses. THE TEETH 93. People judge the age of a horse by the incisors ; they are more reliable than the grinders, and easier to get at. The central incisors are shed at two and a half years, and from four and a Wirv/ill <try$@l nalf to five years of age the corner teeth are changed. Thus, if on looking at a fig. 46.—four years old. horse's mouth you find all the milk teeth gone and the corner teeth quite fresh and untouched, you may put his age as ' rising five.' After that the teeth begin to wear and the ' marks,' o
. The care of horses : a book for all who have practical charge of horses. Horses. THE TEETH 93. People judge the age of a horse by the incisors ; they are more reliable than the grinders, and easier to get at. The central incisors are shed at two and a half years, and from four and a Wirv/ill <try$@l nalf to five years of age the corner teeth are changed. Thus, if on looking at a fig. 46.—four years old. horse's mouth you find all the milk teeth gone and the corner teeth quite fresh and untouched, you may put his age as ' rising five.' After that the teeth begin to wear and the ' marks,' or oval cavities, disappear, and as years pass the shape of the teeth alters from the oval to an almost triangular shape. The composition of a horse's teeth is compound. The tissue or main substance is called ' dentive '; the outside tissue is called the 'cement'; the third tissue, if it exists, is found between the 'dentive' and the 'cement,' and is called ' enamel.' A horse's grinders are six in number on each side of both upper and lower jaws ; the crowns are thick, square, and of great length, and are deeply rooted in the sockets, those of the fig. 48—at fourteen years upper jaw being slightly curved. old the teeth become when these teeth get worn by MORE TRIANGULAR. , . °,i J use and mastication the pattern of the intermingled dentive, cement, and enamel shows very plainly. It is rarely that mares have the tusks or Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Carter, Ada F; Carter, Charles, M. R. C. V. S. L. London : George Bell & Sons
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