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Title: American horses and horse breeding : a complete history of the horse from the remotest period in his history to date. The horseman's encyclopedia and standard authority on horses, embracing breeds, families, breeding, training, shoeing, and general management. The modern and practical horse doctor on the cause, nature, symptoms, and treatment of diseases of all kinds
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Dimon, John
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : J. Dimon
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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ble. Keep clear of worms by all means. Watch the conditionof the bowels; attend to the teeth, and give especial attentionto the feet. Average per cent, of mares got in foal by stallions is 67;average per cent, of living foals dropped is 62. THE NUMBER OF MARES A STALLION MAY SERVE. It is generally considered as a two-year-old the serviceshould be light, if any. A three-year-old may be limited to fifteen or twentyservices, and a four-year-old should not go beyond thirty. There can be no question that the use of the procreativepowers of the unmatured horse tends to retard his physicaldevelopment. CONTROLLING THE STALLION WHEN IN USE. While the temper and disposition of stallions are largelymatters of inheritance, yet much depends on the breaking andmanagement. It is much easier to spoil a horse than to curehim of bad habits after they have once been allowed to form. Headstrong stallions should never be led out except by abridle that will enable the groom to have perfect control overhim.
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CARE AND MANAGEMENT OF THE STALLION. 163 GROOMING. Use an old, dull currycomb, a root or broom brush, and abristle brush, followed by flannel cloth; these are all the toolsnecessary in cleaning and polishing his coat, and they should beused in the order named, and used every day. While the stallion should not be pampered and over-fed, heshould be kept as clean as possible, as cleanliness in animals isof importance, even as it is in man, and we all are taught in thelatter case, cleanliness is next to godliness. CHAPTER XIX. CARE AND MANAGEMENT OF BROOD MARES. Getting doubtful mares in foal — Eternal vigilance—The productive period— Period of gestation — Marking the foal — Use the brood mares —Stabling pregnant mares — Wheat middlings — Enlargement of abdo-men — Attention at foaling time — Jealous mothers. T HE first thing to be done in the management of the broodmare is to get her in foal, otherwise she cannot properlybe called a brood mare. More money is probably l

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