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 CONTRACTED FEET—COOKED FOOD differs from inoculation so far that in the case of the latter it is necessary for the germs of disease to be obviously and directly conveyed from one horse to the other, whilst in contagion it is sufficient if the animals have simply touched each other. Thus
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 CONTRACTED FEET—COOKED FOOD differs from inoculation so far that in the case of the latter it is necessary for the germs of disease to be obviously and directly conveyed from one horse to the other, whilst in contagion it is sufficient if the animals have simply touched each other. Thus if one horse is suffering from a disease which produces a discharge which is conveyed to a raw place or wound on a stable companion, the latter becomes inocula- tive, but if the germs are conveyed by merely the bodies touching, it is a case of contagion. (See Infectious Diseases, Inoculatioft.) Contracted Feet are those which are abnormally narrow in their shape, and may be described as unusually long, narrow feet. Sometimes both hoofs are contracted, and some- times only one; but it does not necessarily follow that a pair of small, narrow feet, if they match in shape and size, should be contracted, as they may be natural to the horse, though undesirable. As a rule, the defect is the result of navicular disease or bad shoeing, the latter being a common cause of con- tracted heels, which exist when the heels are too close together, and the hoof too narrow behind. Contracted heels, naturally, are likely to affect the frog and bars of the foot, and thereby cause lameness. (See Foot, Thrush.) Contracted Foot. Cooked Food, excepting in the case of a sick horse or shy feeder, is not to be recommended as a food for horses. An exception may, of course, be made in the case of a bran mash, which, given occasionally the night before a day of rest, is excellent. Such feeds as a mess of boiled roots are 88
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