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    The Gentleman's Pocket-Farrier - Showing How to use your Horse on a Journey and What Remedies are Proper for Common Accidents that May Befall Him on the Road
    The Gentleman's Pocket-Farrier - Showing How to use your Horse on a Journey and What Remedies are Proper for Common Accidents that May Befall Him on the Road
    The Gentleman's Pocket-Farrier - Showing How to use your Horse on a Journey and What Remedies are Proper for Common Accidents that May Befall Him on the Road
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    The Gentleman's Pocket-Farrier - Showing How to use your Horse on a Journey and What Remedies are Proper for Common Accidents that May Befall Him on the Road

    By F. Tuffnell

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    "The Gentleman's Pocket-Farrier" is a concise and accessible handbook for horse owners, with chapters on everything from preparing for a journey to general care and management, treating ailments, and more. This vintage book will appeal to those with an interest in equestrianism, and it would make for a fantastic addition to collections of related literature. Contents include: "Legs", "Wind", "Cure for a Broken Wind", "A Draught-horse", "A Saddle-horse", "The Splint", "The Spavin", "Windgall", "Setting out on a Journey", "Directions for Mounting", "Directions for Going", "Correction Ill-timed. Correction Well-timed. An Easy Rein", "Cutting", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in a modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on maintaining and caring for horses. This book was first published in 1836.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHome Farm Books
    Release dateSep 29, 2017
    ISBN9781473343788
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      The Gentleman's Pocket-Farrier - Showing How to use your Horse on a Journey and What Remedies are Proper for Common Accidents that May Befall Him on the Road - F. Tuffnell

      THE

      GENTLEMAN’S

      POCKET-FARRIER:

      SHEWING

      HOW TO USE YOUR HORSE

      ON A JOURNEY,

      AND

      WHAT REMEDIES ARE PROPER FOR COMMON ACCIDENTS THAT MAY BEFAL HIM ON THE ROAD.

      BY F. TUFFNELL, VETERINARY SURGEON.

      The remedies this little tract prescribes are simple, and easily obtained, and never fail of a cure where the disorder is curable; therefore no man who values his horse should presume to travel without it.

      Copyright © 2013 Read Books Ltd.

      This book is copyright and may not be reproduced or copied in any way without the express permission of the publisher in writing

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      Horses – Care and Maintenance

      The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus. It is an odd-toed ungulate mammal belonging to the taxonomic family ‘Equidae’. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, single-toed animal of today. Humans began to domesticate horses around 4000 BC, and their domestication is believed to have been widespread by 3000 BC. We, as humans have interacted with horses in a multitude of ways throughout history – from sport competitions and non-competitive recreational pursuits, to working activities such as police work, agriculture, entertainment and therapy. Horses have also been used in warfare, from which a wide variety of riding and driving techniques developed, using many different styles of equipment and methods of control. With this range of uses in mind, there is an equally extensive, specialized vocabulary used to describe equine-related concepts, covering everything from anatomy to life stages, size, colours, markings, breeds, locomotion, and behaviour.

      Looking after horses is a time consuming, as well as moderately expensive task – only to be embarked upon seriously. Horses can consume approximately 2% to 2.5% of their body weight in dry feed each day. Therefore, a 450-kilogram (990 lb) adult horse could eat up to 11 kilograms (24 lb) of food! Sometimes, concentrated feed such as grain is fed in addition to pasture or hay, especially when the animal is very active. In practical terms, horses prefer to eat small amounts of food steadily throughout the day, as they do in nature when grazing on pasture. Although this is not always possible with modern stabling practices and human schedules that favour feeding horses twice a day, it is important to remember the underlying biology of the animal when determining what to feed, how often, and in what quantities.

      Aside from these more basic requirements – food (and water), horse grooming; the hygienic care given to a horse, is a very important practice. Grooming is an important part of basic horse care, essential for horses used in competition. Regular grooming helps to ensure the horse is healthy and comfortable. At a minimum, horses are generally groomed before being worked, and are usually groomed and cleaned up after a workout as well. This helps improve the health of the skin and coat, decreases the chance of health problems such as thrush, scratches and chaffing – as well as giving the groom a change to check the horse's health, such as looking for cuts, heat, swelling, lameness or a change in temperament (such as depression) which could indicate the horse is sick. Importantly, it also helps form a relationship between horse and handler, which can carry over to other handling duties and riding. Horse showmanship

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