The horse: its keep & management by Cook William 1849-1904

Author:Cook, William, 1849-1904
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Horses
Publisher: St. Mary Cray, Kent : Published by the author
Published: 1891-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

but should be fed principally on stewed linseed, bran, and hay. Stewed linseed and bran mixed with two tablespoon-fuls of sulphur cools the blood, and if the fat from a fowl is rubbed into the wound it soon draws the matter out and heals it up at the same time. Some people put alum on a cracked heel, which is very wrong, because it has a tendency to dry and harden, and although it dries the place for a time it makes it hard and brittle and very often it will crack again directly. A little dry fullers' earth put into the wound is an excellent thing, as it is of such a healing nature, and dries it at the same time. If a little fat from a fow^l is used it makes the skin pliable. This will generally cure a cracked heel in a horse, no matter how bad it is, and often without the animal lying up at all.

Whenever a horse has cracked heels the legs should never be washed more than is really necessary. Cracks are not like ordinary sores, because there is a kind of friction, and every time the foot moves it opens the wound, which at once begins to bleed or discharge matter. Sometimes too much corn and too little work will make the horse humoury, and this is likely to cause a break out in the heel. The remedies I have mentioned are simple but very safe ones. A greasy heel, properly speaking, is not what is called a cracked heel, though the former may arise from the cracked heel. I have said the latter contains a .great deal of humour, and when a horse has this complaint it should be kept very low and have but little corn and only do light work. If the leg and heel are well rubbed with the fat of fowls, and a little fullers'

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