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 . eground. If theleg be taken upand the j ointforcibly extend-ed or flexed, hewill limp quitebadly. Spav-ined horses gen-erally lose con-dition, and from tJie pain caused by rising they frequently standfor a long time. If it is the result of a strain, causing acute inflam


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 . eground. If theleg be taken upand the j ointforcibly extend-ed or flexed, hewill limp quitebadly. Spav-ined horses gen-erally lose con-dition, and from tJie pain caused by rising they frequently standfor a long time. If it is the result of a strain, causing acute inflammation, the lameness will not pass ofl* by ex-ercise so readily as it will afterit becomes chronic. An enlargement usuallymakes its appearance from thefifth to the sixth week. Anyprominence can be seen bystanding in front of the horseabout three or four feet fromFig. 654.—Action Fig. 655.—Action of the shoulder, and looking backwhen natural. badly sprained leg. ^^^^^^^ ^^^ j^^^j^^ ^^. ^^ ^^^^^_ ing behind the horse, and looking forward acros-s the hock. The efibrt the horse makes to reliev-e the heels by walkingupon the toe, indicates the necessity of removing the shoe, raisingthe heel-calks, hammering down or cutting ofl the toe-calks, androunding the toe. Care must be taken not to mistake a natural fullness, known.


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