The stock owner's adviser; the breeding, rearing, management, diseases and treatment of domestic animals . 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 f
The stock owner's adviser; the breeding, rearing, management, diseases and treatment of domestic animals . 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. Fig. 60—Ossification of the Lateral Cartilages. ground; when both feet are involved, by a shortness of step andwant of elasticity or springiness in action, resembling that ofnavicular disease. Treatment.—Bar shoe, rest, blisters, firing, and, should thesefail, neurotomy. This operation should only be done through askilled surgeon. NAVICULAR DISEASE. This is the most fertile cause of lameness known of in thebetter bred horses. I^avicular disease may be defined to be aninflammation set up in the navicular bone, bursa, and flexorpedis perforans tendon, The disease originates in the cancel- DISEASES OF THE FEET. ^25 lated structure of the bone or the cartilage upon its a result the tendon becomes lacerated and adherent to thebone. The disease occurs in the fore feet, and is seen in saddlehorses more than any other class. In all its stages it constitutesan unsoundness. The disease is always confined to the inferiorsurface of the navicular bone and in connection with the tend
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