Notes On Stable Management in India And the Colonies
Notes On Stable Management in India And the Colonies
Nunn, J. A. (Joshua Arthur), B. 1853
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Under these con- ditions, it will be readily understood how utterly useless lancing or scarifying one small part of the affected canal will be. A small dose of aperient medicine, or even putting the horse on a laxative diet of bran mash for a few days, will do all that is required, without having recourse to heroic measures. Nose-bags (tobra). Nose-bags are sadly n^lected by "syces," and unless looked after by the owner, they never dream of cleaning them, so that, particularly with leather ones..., they get into a very filthy condition, and frequently horses refuse to eat out of such dirty things. Both mangers and nose-bags should Digitized by Google POOD. 47 frequently be washed and scrubbed out with soap, or sand and water. Nose-bags are, at the best, a necessary evil, and if they have to be used at all, canvas ones are better than leather, being more easily cleaned, I only allowed nose-bags to be used when on the march, or out in camp ; when in the stable the horses were fed out of an ordinary bucket, or else a manger, and even then they were not fastened on the head, but held on the ground.
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