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 CA S TORS— CA S TRA TION be easily kept if his head is pulled over towards the shoulder, and then his legs can be secured if it is necessary to do so. Casting Tackle. A truss or two of straw should be provided for him to fall over on. Castors, also styled chestnuts, are the callous, h
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 CA S TORS— CA S TRA TION be easily kept if his head is pulled over towards the shoulder, and then his legs can be secured if it is necessary to do so. Casting Tackle. A truss or two of straw should be provided for him to fall over on. Castors, also styled chestnuts, are the callous, horny excrescences which horses possess above the knees and below the hocks on the inside of their lees. Castration.—The desirability, nay, the necessity, of subjecting superfluous stallions to the operation of castra- tion must be admitted by everybody who has studied the question of horse-breeding, as what he has seen and learned cannot have failed to convince him that countless most undesirable sires are bred from every year. It is, however, probable that a mistaken, but none the less very widely- spread belief that it is dangerous to use stallions for work in saddle or harness, is mainly responsible for the large proportion of castrated males, or geldings as they are usually described, which are to be met with in England. On the continent the proportion of geldings to stallions is not nearly so large, and there are evidences in this country
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