The care of animals : a book of brief and popular advice on the diseases and ailments of farm animals . his assistants, it is fre-quently a good plan to blindfold the horse,by covering the eyes wdth folds of cloth. Thiscan be fastened to the bridle or to the halterhead to keep it in place. Twfst^for Another method of confining the horse is confiningby taking up one of his feet and compellinghim to stand on three legs. If an assistant holds thefoot he should not allow the horse to rest too muchAveight upon him, for it gives the animal a chance tokick. The best method for a fore leg is to place
The care of animals : a book of brief and popular advice on the diseases and ailments of farm animals . his assistants, it is fre-quently a good plan to blindfold the horse,by covering the eyes wdth folds of cloth. Thiscan be fastened to the bridle or to the halterhead to keep it in place. Twfst^for Another method of confining the horse is confiningby taking up one of his feet and compellinghim to stand on three legs. If an assistant holds thefoot he should not allow the horse to rest too muchAveight upon him, for it gives the animal a chance tokick. The best method for a fore leg is to place aloop below the fetlock, bend the leg at the knee andstrap the foot to the horses arm. To take up a hindleg, one end of a long rope is placed below the fetlock,the other end being passed forward and festened to 146 The Care of Animals the collar about the animals neck, or held by anassistant. For an important surgical operation, horses areusually thrown, by the use of either side-lines or hob-bles. Fig. 36. The side-line method consists in attach-ing long ropes below the fetlocks on both hind legs,. Fig. 36. Throwing a horse by means of side-lines running the ropes forward to a collar and, by exertingforce on the ropes, drawing the animals hind legs for-ward and upward and retaining them in that throwing harnesses are made for this these, one may use a piece of three-fourths inchrope forty feet long, doubled at the center and tied tomake a loop at that point about two feet long. Thisloop can be slipped over the horses head, in the form Throiving a Horse 147 of a collar, the knot coming at the top of the ropes are then brought down one on either side ofthe horse, each passed under the fetlock joint of a hindleg, and the end run forward through the collar. As-sistants, by taking hold of these ropes while the horseis backed, can draw his legs well forward and up onhis sides. When the horse is down the feet can betied in this position with
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