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Title: Veterinary notes for horse owners : a manual of horse medicine and surgery
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Hayes, M. Horace (Matthew Horace), 1842-1904
Subjects: Horses Horses -- Diseases Horses -- Diseases
Publisher: London, England : Hurst and Blackett, Ltd.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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Fig. 162.— Mr. (Jvers method of casting for castration (near side view). CASTRATING. 649 not the case among Arab horses that are used for riding anddriving in India. The fact however remains, that castration has apowerful influence in preventing a colt from becoming heavy infront. If performed too early, it decreases the future developmentof the forehand too much, and also diminishes the animals vigour,which fact, as regards working bullocks, is well recognised on theContinent. A long experience of Australian geldings of the Indianremount class, has shown me that many of them are too light infront and are lacking in energy, which fact Veterinary-Surgeon
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Fig. 163.—Drawing a hind leg forward. (Borrowed from Peuchand Toussaints Chirurgie Veterinaire.) Desmond has explained to me is due to the Australian custom ofcastrating ordinary colts at the early age of nine or ten months, soas to prevent them giving trouble at grass. Speaking generally,we may fix the age of castration between one and two years; andwhile working within these limits, we should be guided by the stateof individual development. The testicles of a colt do not usually descend into his scrotum,until he is from six to ten months old (Chauveau). Under similar conditions, there seems to be as little danger incastrating an aged horse, as a colt; although the formeris, of course, more liable to have his testicles or cord in a 650 OPEEATIONS. diseased condition, which fact might render the operation difficult,or unsafe. The only special ill result to an old animal is that theoperation is apt to cause him to lose his spirit and pluck, and tomake him nervous or vicious. Operatin

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