The stock owner's adviser; the breeding, rearing, management, diseases and treatment of domestic animals . elnut to a pigeons egg, withlameness. The horse putsthe heel down first, and takesthe foot up quickly, as soonas the toe comes in contactwith the ground. There willbe pain on pressure, heat,sloughing of the skin, leavinga wound that heals with diffi-culty. Treatment.—Low - heeledbar shoe, fomentations, poul-tices, rest; succeeded by the ammoniacal liniment, and in ex-treme cases the cautery. OSSIFICATION OF THE LATERAL CARTILAGES. Side Bones.—This condition is commonly met with in heavyho
The stock owner's adviser; the breeding, rearing, management, diseases and treatment of domestic animals . elnut to a pigeons egg, withlameness. The horse putsthe heel down first, and takesthe foot up quickly, as soonas the toe comes in contactwith the ground. There willbe pain on pressure, heat,sloughing of the skin, leavinga wound that heals with diffi-culty. Treatment.—Low - heeledbar shoe, fomentations, poul-tices, rest; succeeded by the ammoniacal liniment, and in ex-treme cases the cautery. OSSIFICATION OF THE LATERAL CARTILAGES. Side Bones.—This condition is commonly met with in heavyhorses, and in the fore feet. It rarely occurs in the hind feet. The lateral cartilages are two thin plates of fibro-cartilage, ofirregular quadrangular form, surrounding the wings of the ospedis, which in virtue of their elasticity assist the sensitive frogand soft structures of the foot in regaining their natural posi-tion after being pressed upward and outwards by the weight ofthe animal. They may be easily felt on the sides of the foot,just above the coronet, as two yielding pads. When these be-. Fig. 59—Disease of the PyramidalProcess of the Os Pedis. 224 THE STOCK OWNER S ADVISER. come ossified, they are hard and unyielding as the bone of thefoot. The process of ossification is often a slow one, nnaccompaniedby any acute inflammatory action, giving the animal no pain,and causing no lameness. AVe frequently see this in heavyhorses. The causes are hereditary tendency and shoeing withhigh calks. Side bones are a cause of unsoundness, but if a horse with side boneshas good, strong feet,open and well devel-oped, showing n olameness, he shouldnot be considered un-sound. If the light-bred horse is found tohave side bones,whether lame or not,he should be consid-ered unsound. Side-b 0 n e lameness ischarac terized bybringing the toe ofthe foot first to the
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