. Animal management. 1908. Horses; Horses; Draft animals. SADDLES AND SORE HACKS. 179 Should the saddle under examination be in possession of hair pannels, and these found to be pressing on the shoulder-blades or loins, the hair must be forced backwards out of the part by means of an awl, and the part of the pannel corresponding to the " burr '"' or " fans " stitched across to keep the hair trom re-entering. (Fig. 35.) Assuming we have remedied all the above defects, the saddle should be ridden in, say, for half an hour, and the next step is to ascertain whether the pressur
. Animal management. 1908. Horses; Horses; Draft animals. SADDLES AND SORE HACKS. 179 Should the saddle under examination be in possession of hair pannels, and these found to be pressing on the shoulder-blades or loins, the hair must be forced backwards out of the part by means of an awl, and the part of the pannel corresponding to the " burr '"' or " fans " stitched across to keep the hair trom re-entering. (Fig. 35.) Assuming we have remedied all the above defects, the saddle should be ridden in, say, for half an hour, and the next step is to ascertain whether the pressure of the side bars is evenly distributed ; this can be learned in the following way. The saddle is carefully ungirthed, the nummah straps unbuckled, and Ungirth the tree lifted from the blanket without in the least disturbing it. The. Fig. 35. View of pannel with the stuffing arranged to keep pressure oft the blade-bones and loins. blanket will be found to bear the imprint of the side bars, and an and note examination of this depression shows at a glance whether they are ^'?\P''I^^ ^^ pressing evenly from top to bottom and from front to rear. '^"^ ^^^^' The examination has to be rapidly made, as the blanket through its elasticity soon loses the impression of the side bars and the mark of the latter becomes obliterated. The most usual places to find excessive pressure are at the top edge of the side bar behind the front arch, and the bottom edge in front of the rear arch, and if there is a deeper impression on the blanket in these situations than any other portion of the bar, we may accordingly say with certainty that the pressure is not evenly distributed and that the parts of the back corresponding with the more marked impressions are receiving an undue amount of the weight. This with a horse in (b 10948) M 2. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illu
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