. Biggle horse book : a concise and practical treatise on the horse : adopted to the needs of farmers and others who have a kindly regard for this noble servitor of man. Horses. 78 MARE AND COLT. sary. When she is fed mostly on straw, she requires bran or oats to make up the elements required to keep up her vitality and to make the colt strong. Many persons think that a mare should rest from work for several weeks before foaling. It is not so. If a brood mare has been accustomed to farm work before she is with foal, let her continue at such work, without forcing her, until she is about ready t
. Biggle horse book : a concise and practical treatise on the horse : adopted to the needs of farmers and others who have a kindly regard for this noble servitor of man. Horses. 78 MARE AND COLT. sary. When she is fed mostly on straw, she requires bran or oats to make up the elements required to keep up her vitality and to make the colt strong. Many persons think that a mare should rest from work for several weeks before foaling. It is not so. If a brood mare has been accustomed to farm work before she is with foal, let her continue at such work, without forcing her, until she is about ready to drop her colt. Regular and moderate exercise is as necessary to the health and comfort of horses as it is of human beings, and in no way can brood mares have it better than by being used in the manner to which their muscles have been accustomed. Of course, she should rest a few days after the colt is born, on her account and the colt's also. • Straining work is not good, but any kind of light work will not injure. To dry a mare up in her milk, feed her straw for a few days, or a little hay, and rub soft soap on her udder. Give her a reduced amount cf water. ]\Iilk the udder out only partially each day. Choose mares that are young, sound, roomy and of good disposition. They are better if larger than the horse, rather than smaller. The stallion must net have ring bone, navicular disease, cataract, unsound feet or bad temper, however beautiful in form he may be. Impotency in stallions is caused more by want of exercise than by any other cause. Feeding fattening foods is also a chief cause. Moderate work is better than idleness. Any work which is not straining is beneficial. The paddock for a stal- "W lion is drawn so as to show the inside, which has a sloping fender four feet high to. 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 perfectl
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