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Title: The horse : its varieties and management in health and disease
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Armatage, George Ballantyne, Hanson and Co Frederick Warne (Firm)
Subjects: Horses Horses Veterinary medicine Horsemanship Horse breeds
Publisher: London : Frederick Warne and Co. and New York
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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oas to clear the coronet, which will inflame to a mischievousextent if bruised. Sometimes a weight is required for eachleg if the horse kicks both stall-posts. Weaving is a restless habit of moving the head in a quickand peculiar way from side to side of the stall, just as thewild beast does in his den. It may arise from an irri-table disposition, but the fact that few weavers aregood feeders or workers, points to some internal disorder,which in all probability is within the stomach. In suchcases the character of food and work must be suitable. Pawing is from a similar cause, and is evidenced by aconstant working away of the litter with the fore-feet. Thebest remedy is a pair of fetters, which keep the two fore-legs close together, and prevent pawing with either. Thefetters, or shackles, consist of two padded straps, largeenough to encircle the small pastern-bone, and connectedby a short chain of about 10 or 12 inches in length. Eating the litter is easily prevented by a muzzle, which
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32 O Stable Vices. 81 must be put on immediately after the hay is finished, andkept on through the night. A piece of rock salt in themanger will, however, often entice the horse from the litter,and perhaps remove the morbid and craving appetite byits restorative powers. An inveterate kicker is to be very carefully approachedby all parties, and sometimes requires even more thanordinary caution, in which case a chain is run through apulley in the stall-post, and from that to his head-stall; sothat by pulling it, his head may be pulled round towardsthe post, and by the same action his heels drawn from it,so as to allow the groom to go to his head when he is safefrom the heels. Most good grooms, however, are able totake care of themselves, and, by constant practice, theylearn to keep the proper distance—either near enough tomake the kick a mere push, or far enough to be out ofreach. Biting is managed in the same way as kicking—usingthe chain, however, to draw the head to the ring of t

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