The encyclopædia of the stable The encyclopædia of the stable: a complete manual of the horse, its breeds, anatomy, physiology, diseases, breeding, breaking, training and management, with articles on harness, farriery, carriages, etc. comprising a thousand hints to horse owners encyclopdiaofs00shaw Year: 1909 SEEDY TOE—SELLING Seedy Toe, which either very often succeeds an attack of laminitis, or may result from the clip of the shoe pressing too tightly, or concussion, is usually caused by the horn of the foot at the toe becoming detached from the tip of the coffin bone inside, though in ex-
The encyclopædia of the stable The encyclopædia of the stable: a complete manual of the horse, its breeds, anatomy, physiology, diseases, breeding, breaking, training and management, with articles on harness, farriery, carriages, etc. comprising a thousand hints to horse owners encyclopdiaofs00shaw Year: 1909 SEEDY TOE—SELLING Seedy Toe, which either very often succeeds an attack of laminitis, or may result from the clip of the shoe pressing too tightly, or concussion, is usually caused by the horn of the foot at the toe becoming detached from the tip of the coffin bone inside, though in ex- ceptional cases other parts than the toe are affected. Seedy toe does not always produce lame- ness, though it constitutes un- soundness, and therefore if, on the walls of the foot being tapped at the toe, one of the hoofs gives out a hollow sound, its presence may be suspected. Treatment. — The unhealthy horn inside the wall must be cut away, and the growth of the healthy horn stimulated by blistering. A bar-shoe should be worn, and there should be no clip on the shoe when the horse first returns to work, which will be after a few weeks' rest in a box, or out at grass. (See Bar-shoe^ Blistering^ Twning Out.) Seedy Toe. Selling.—If a man possesses a good, reliable horse of any variety, he will find no difficulty in disposing of him, if not for quite the price he would like to receive, at all events at a profitable one. Should no purchaser be forthcoming from amongst the circle of his friends, an advertisement will usually secure a customer; or, better still, the animal can be sent to a respectable repository for sale under the hammer. If so, he should be advertised beforehand, so that genuine bidders may be attracted by his perfections, which, of course, will have to be described, and if a warranty can be given so much the better. Otherwise it is possible that private buyers in want of just such a horse may not attend the sale, and if so the dealers who are present a
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