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Title: The horse, its treatment in health and disease with a complete guide to breeding, training and management
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Axe, J. Wortley
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London, Gresham Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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ROUGHING 451
ROUGHING
In winter some addition to the ordinary shoe is necessary to prevent
horses from slipping on ice and snow. In Great Britain the weather is
so changeable that a regular provision for frost is seldom made, as it is
in countries where ice and snow prevail for weeks or months at a stretch.
Here our roads are covered with ice and snow with very little notice,
and may be free again in a day or two. Horse-owners therefore provide
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Fig. 646.—Frost-nails
temporary arrangements to meet the short, occasional spells of slippery
weather. The most temporary method of affording foothold is by the
use of what are called frost-nails. These appliances are very similar to
the ordinary horse-shoe nail but with a larger head, and brought to a sharp
point or to a chisel-edge. The smaller ones may be driven into the
holes from which a nail has been removed. The larger are only used
at the heels in an extra hole specially provided for them. These holes
are punched through the heels of the shoe, which is fitted a little wider
than usual, so that a frost - nail when driven does not enter the hoof
at all, but passes through the shoe, and is fixed by being twisted over
the shoe. Frost - nails are very useful for an emergency, but not for
continued use.
When frosty weather looks as though it were to continue for some
452 HORSE-SHOEING
time, horses are roughed or sharped. The shoes are taken off, heated
in the fire, and the heels turned down so as to form a sharp projection
that will cut into ice or frozen snow, and so give firm foothold.

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