Identifier: horseitstreatm09axej (find matches)
Title: The horse, its treatment in health and disease with a complete guide to breeding, training and management
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Axe, J. Wortley
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London, Gresham Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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with the ground. It is alwaysdesirable that the frog should touch the ground, but when it is wastedno attempt to let it down by over - lowering the heels should be made. 440 HORSE-SHOEING When a hoof is excessively sloped in front and the toe long, it wouldbe injurious to shorten the toe by rasping the under surface of the foot.Such a hoof is properly treated by directly shortening the toe with a raspapplied to its border. When a hoof presents broken horn on the lower border of the wall,it is necessary not to allows a shoe to rest on it. Broken horn cannotsupport weight, and wdien it yields may cause injury to the sensitive parts,and always causes shoes to become loose. Broken horn should be removedunless it can be left in a position offering no bearing for a shoe. Whena foot is insufficiently covered with horn, either as the result of excessivewear from work without shoes or as the eftect of previous removal bya farrier, great care is necessary to produce the best bearing surface. As
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ABC Fig. 631.—Well-proportioned and Ill-proportioned FeetA, Foot too long and heel too low. B, Well-shaped foot, c, Heel too high. a rule the cjuarters of a foot are most broken, and the heels may be trustedto take most bearing. The sole should never be pared out with the object of making it concaveand smooth (fig. 632). All that is necessary is to remove the loose flakes ofhorn which are naturally being exfoliated. No part of the sole will standuneven pressure by a shoe, and therefore it must be lowered fully to thelevel of the wall. The border of the sole, just within the w^all, may properlybe used as bearing surface, but only in conjunction with the wall. Wherethe latter is broken away, no attempt should be made to use the sole asa support for a shoe. On flat feet care must be taken, especially at thetoe, that the sole is not left unduly prominent. At the heels in all feetthe angle of sole between the bar and wall should be left less prominentthan the wall, or uneven pressure wdl

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