. A text-book of horseshoeing for horseshoers and veterinarians. Horseshoeing. The so-called acute-angled hoof. Normal- So-called stumpy or obtuse- angled hoof. acute-angled (long toe and low heel. Fig. 59), and all deviations backward from the regular position as obtuse-angled * (short toe and high heel, Fig. 61), steep-toed, or stumpy. When the body-weight is uniformly dis- FiG. 62. tributed over all four limbs, the foot-axis should be straight (Figs. 59 and 61, dotted hne), not " broken" (bent); the long pas- tern, -wall at the toe, and foot-axis should have the same slant. A pecu
. A text-book of horseshoeing for horseshoers and veterinarians. Horseshoeing. The so-called acute-angled hoof. Normal- So-called stumpy or obtuse- angled hoof. acute-angled (long toe and low heel. Fig. 59), and all deviations backward from the regular position as obtuse-angled * (short toe and high heel, Fig. 61), steep-toed, or stumpy. When the body-weight is uniformly dis- FiG. 62. tributed over all four limbs, the foot-axis should be straight (Figs. 59 and 61, dotted hne), not " broken" (bent); the long pas- tern, -wall at the toe, and foot-axis should have the same slant. A peculiar form of foot is the so-called bear-foot (Fig. 62), in which the foot-axis, viewed from the side, is broken strongly forward at the coronet. The wall at the The "; toe stauds inuch steeper than the long pastern; in other words, a low-jointed, sloping pastern is attached to an upright (obtuse-angled) hoof. Such a foot is sometimes improperly called a " ;. * The expression " obtuse-angled" is here used only in a comparative 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 perfectly resemble the original Lungwitz, A. (Anton), 1845-; Adams, John William, 1862- tr. Philadelphia [etc. ] J. B. Lippincott Company
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