The condition of hunters - their choice and management (1908) (14780774775)

Identifier: conditionofhunte00nimr (find matches)
Title: The condition of hunters : their choice and management
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Nimrod Barton, Frank Townend, b. 1869
Subjects: Horses Fox hunting
Publisher: London New York : John Lane
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University



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e greatestattention to the condition of his hunters, but nevercould attain it there, although, to the eye, his stablewas everything we could desire, and it was warm andwell-ventilated. When his stud moved to Stratford-on-Avon in Warwickshire, where his stable was veryinferior to look at, they immediately improved in theircondition. The fact was, the first-named stables weredamp, although he drained them ; and the latterwere dry. Mr Percivall (Lecture 38) says— He that hasclean and cool stables will have a healthy stud ; andthe converse of this will never fail to engender disease.Above all other considerations then, in taking the coltfrom his natural state, it behoves us to guard himfrom the vicissitudes of cold and heat, and to keephim in an atmosphere as pure as that of which wehave just deprived him. This is strongly in favourof the regular in-door system, for we know the out-door system is anything but regular : yet, with greatdeference to Mr P., he has gone a Uttle too far here.
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CONDITION OF HUNTERS RESUMED 319 In the first place, it is impossible to keep a stable aspure as the open air; and, in the next, it is by nomeans essential to a horses health that it should be so,or that he should be kept cool—on the contrary if ahunter or race-horse. I maintain the contrary onexperience ; and affirm that a temperature of sixty-two or sixty-three is almost essential to the perfectcondition of horses. Here, with respect to the race-horse, I am backed by Mr Darvill in his treatise on Training the English Race-horse, who says thatthorough-bred horses, which have originated in ahot climate, are not to be got into racing conditionunless kept in a stable of a certain temperature ofheat, which he estimates at sixty-three.^ Another writer on the diseases of horses says: The moment parturition is accomplished, the sub-sequent existence of animals depends so much onrespiration that they enjoy health, activity, andvigour, or become enfeebled, emaciated, and diseased,according