Lessons in horse judging : with instructions for the summering of hunters by Fearnley William

Author:Fearnley, William
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Horses, Horses, Horses
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Published: 1879-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

The stomach of the horse is comparative!}^ small, but the intestines are very large, and are of necessity liejyt distended hy residual gas, which it is one of the functions ofthe healthy body to keep evenly balanced in regard both to quantity and quality. This constant distension of the intestines by healthy gas causes that roundness and tension of the belly we see so well marked. When the horse is in hard condition, there is a minimum quantity of healthy gas in the bowels. This can only be when he is living on highly nutritious diet in a concentrated form, such as oats and hay. Should an animal, as in summer, be living on less nutritious diet, and this engulphed in coarse watery non-nutritive material, causing the digestive apparatus much w'ork, then this residual gas is for the time greatly increased, whilst the powers are taxed to their utmost, and it not unfrequently happens that these fail in balancing the quantity of this gas, and so ' windy colic' results. It is then for us to ask first of all what the horse we are purchasing is living upon. If it is green food, we expect to find a larger belly than when living upon harder and more concentrated food. When the gas in the bowels is much less than common, it gives to the animal an unsightly appearance, and he is said to be ' tucked up in his flanks ;' but I must caution you here against being deceived in the import of this. If a horse is pained in moving his hind legs, he will be tucked up in the flanks on the side on which the lame leg is.

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