The pocket and the stud, or, Practical hints on the management of the stable by Hieover Harry 1796-1859 & Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU

Author:Hieover, Harry, 1796-1859 & Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horses, Stables, Horses, CHR 1857, PRO Armstrong, F. Wallis, Jr., Mrs. (donor), PRO Armstrong, F. Wallis (autograph) (bookplate)
Publisher: London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts
Published: 1857-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

102 THE POCKET AND THE STUD.

to it, that they would generally savage other horses if they could get at them ; but this, I am convinced, arises in most cases from the mode in which from colts they are stabled. I quite agree that no entire horse, be he as quiet as he may, should ever be trusted in a situation where he can get at other horses ; but I am certain that if, instead of shutting up half a dozen colts in what is tantamount to a cell, they were in boxes, with walls, say five feet high, and the upper part made of iron bars, close enough not to let their noses through, they would become as accustomed to each other as a herd of deer or a pack of hounds. It is not their nature immediately and at all times to attack each other; if it were, how could they be gregarious ? which, in a state of nature, they are. Even the wild ass, who is, by far, more savage than the horse, is never found singly, but in droves. They — the deer, the dog, or the horse — would at particular seasons have a fight occasionally; but when they do, it is where the female becomes the object of contention; it is the undivided companionship of her that rouses their energies to fury and battle, not any natural hatred or antipathy to each other. For the same horses that might be seen with crest erect, tearing each other like tigers at one season, would be found herding sociably together, and knabbling each other in perfect friendship a few weeks after-

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