The horse and dog : not as they are, but as they should be. Old and erroneous theories relative to the management of the horse brought face to face with the facts of the nineteenth century by Sample H

Author:Sample, H
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Horses, Dogs, Veterinary medicine
Publisher: San Francisco

The ground surface of the foot should be directly transverse to the direction of the pastern, and it is in maintaining or restoring this relation, that care and skill are required. If the pastern is perpendicular to the shank-bone, and the two sides of the lower margin of the foot are directly transverse to the line passing down from these, then the wall has only to be lowered equally on both sides, if it be too high.

It must be remembered, in levelling both sides of the lower surface of the hoof, that the difference of a few fractions of an inch between them will cause considerable, and perhaps very hurtful, oscillations of the weight thrown on the limb.

A properly-instructed farrier should be able, at a glance across the upturned foot, to discover whether it is tolerably level. In Fig. 7 I have shown what is meant by a properly-levelled hoof, the dotted line

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