. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). io8o Rural School Fig. 28.—Lower-nippers at three years of age mind, these considerations are general in their nature and to be con- sidered as a whole. Each taken alone is of little or no use; but when considered in connection with the age indicated by the teeth, they help to confirm one's conclusions as to the age. Estimation of age by t
. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). io8o Rural School Fig. 28.—Lower-nippers at three years of age mind, these considerations are general in their nature and to be con- sidered as a whole. Each taken alone is of little or no use; but when considered in connection with the age indicated by the teeth, they help to confirm one's conclusions as to the age. Estimation of age by tJte teeth.—While the ap- pearance of the teeth is considered the most accurate means of estimating the age of the horse, yet it is not absolutely accurate, since other conditions as well as the individuality of the animal must be taken into account. The tex- ture of the horse's teeth, his feed, and his breed- ing may influence the amount of wear on the teeth. Since one is seldom called upon to estimate the age of a colt under two and a half or three years of age, we shall pass rapidly over the earlier period. The horse is provided with two sets of teeth—the milk or baby teeth and the permanent teeth. The first or middle pair of the milk teeth appear at about one week old; the second or intermediate pair, at one to two weeks old and the third or lateral pair, at about one month old. These baby teeth are long from right to left and have well-defined "; These "cups" are small hollow depres- sions in the middle of the teeth. Two and a half to three years old.—At about two years and nine months the central permanent teeth will appear, and at full three years of age the outer part of the teeth and sometimes the inner also, will be up and in wear, Fig. 28. These permanent teeth are larger in every way than the milk teeth At this age the intermediate milk teeth have worn down and lost all or nearly all of their cups. There will be a slight black indenta
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