Artistic Horse Shoeing a Practical Guide And Scientific Treatise Giving Impr
Artistic Horse Shoeing a Practical Guide And Scientific Treatise Giving Impr
George E Rich
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This foot came off a Hambletonian trotter. These trotters have the lightest shells of any trotting horses in the world. Too great care, it will be seen, cannot be taken in dressing the feet of fine bred horses, and great care is needed not to use too large nails. Fig. 56. — Sectional View showing How Nails should be Driven. Fig. 56 shows a sectional view of a horse's foot, the exact location of the wall of the foot through which the nail must be driven can be readily seen. The most casual obser...ver will notice that a trifling deviation of the nail from the proper course will send it into the sensitive laminae where it will produce lameness and serious injury. FOOT OF A HORSE THAT DIED OF LOCK-JAW. Fig. 57 represents the foot of a horse that died of lock- jaw. Now I am free to confess that I have killed two valu- able horses in my life by driving the nails wrong and pul- 94 ARTISTIC HORSE-SHOEING. ling- them out again before the owner could see what had been done. In performing- this operation sometimes the point of the nail will twist off and remain in the foot.
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