Gleason's horse book : the only authorized work by America's king of horse tamers : history, breeding, training, breaking, buying, feeding, grooming, shoeing, doctoring, telling ag by Gleason Oscar R. (Oscar Rudolph) b. 1856

Author:Gleason, Oscar R. (Oscar Rudolph), b. 1856
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Horses
Publisher: London ; New York : Abbey Press
Published: 1902-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

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These are rulgarly denominated ^< wolves' teeth.*' They gene^ ally disappear with the shedding of those members facing which they are located.

The changes in the teeth, after the first year, are characterized by the longer periods which divide them. Months have heretofore separated the advent of single pairs ; but from this date these appearances are to be reckoned by numbers and by years. The foal has teeth sufficient to support and to maintain its growth. Preparation is being made for the advent of the sixth grinder, and for changes in those milk molars which were in the mouth when the animal was born. At the same time additional width is needed to allow the permanent incisors to appear when their time comes. In the front teeth of a two-year-old, there is a want of that fixedness which, one year before, was characteristic of these organs. The central nippers have done their duty, or, at all events, something approaching to maturity has been attained.

Three years old is the period when the greater number of colts are brought to market. The bit then is put into its mouth, and it is driven from the field. At a period of change and of debility it is expected to display the greatest animation and to learn strange things. "When its gums are inflamed ; when the system is excited ; when the strength is absorbed by an almost simultaneous appearance of twelve teeth, it is led from the pasture and made, with its bleeding jaws, to masticate sharp oats and fibrous hay.

It has been eaid that a three-year-old colt cuts twelve teeth. The engraving presents half the lower jaw of an animal of that age. Those organs which are of recent appearance will be recognized by their darker color, by their larger size, or by their differing in shape from the other members. These new teeth are a central incisor and the first two grinders. The horse has two jaws and two sides to each jaw ; therefore the same number being present within each side of both jaws, the teeth already alluded to appear during the third year. However, even this quantity rather understates than overrates the fact, for frequently the tushes are cut during this period. In such a case the colt acquires no less than sixteen teeth in twelve months.

The four-year-old has to perfect as many teeth as are known lo protrude into the mouth of the three-year-old. But the pre-

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