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 . without doubt constituteunsoundness. There are decisions to the contrary, which are nowuniversally admitted to be erroneous. Broken-wind may be regarded asstill more decidedlv unsoundness. 266 CYCLOrEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. 7.—Crib-biting.—Although there is some difference of opinion amongveterinary surg
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 . without doubt constituteunsoundness. There are decisions to the contrary, which are nowuniversally admitted to be erroneous. Broken-wind may be regarded asstill more decidedlv unsoundness. 266 CYCLOrEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. 7.—Crib-biting.—Although there is some difference of opinion amongveterinary surgeons on this point, crib-biting must be regarded as unsound-ness. This unnatural sucking in of the air must be to a certain degreeinjurious to digestion, must dispose to coiic, and so interfere with thestrength, and usefulness, and health of the horse. Some crib-biters aregood goei-s, but they would have probably possessed more endurance hadthey not acquir.^d this habit; and it is a fact well established, that as soonas a horse begii-s to become a crib-biter, he, in more than nine cases outof ten, begins t) lose condition. 8.—Curb unsoundness while it lasts, and perhaps while theswelling remains, although the inflammation may have subsided: for a. YEARLING MORGAN FILLY. horse that has once thrown out a curb, is for a while at least, very liableto do so again on the slightest extra exertion. A horse, however, is notreturnable if he should spring a curb five minutes after the purchase, forit is done in a moment, and does not necessarily indicate any previousunsoundness or weakness of the part. 9.—Cutting, as rendering a horse liable to serious injury of the legs,and indicating that he is either weak, or has an awkwardness of gaitinconsistent with safety, should be considered as unsoundness. HOW TO BUY AND SELL A HORSE, 267 10.—Enlarged Glands.—To a slight enlargement of the glands underthe jaw much attention need not be paid ; but if they are of considera
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