The horse in the stable and the field - his varieties, management in health and disease, anatomy, physiology, etc. (1907) (14798845313)

Identifier: horseinstablefie01wals (find matches)
Title: The horse in the stable and the field : his varieties, management in health and disease, anatomy, physiology, etc.
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Walsh, J. H Leeney, Harold
Subjects: Horse breeds Horses Horses Horses
Publisher: London : G. Routledge and Sons
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University



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ndoors. The best proportions for their boxes are sixteen to eighteenfeet long by twelve feet wide and nine or ten high, but these are perhapsa little above the average. Nevertheless I have given these in the plan onpage 242. It is divided into four separate stables thirty-six feet long and eighteenwide, in which three or even four loose boxes may be separated bypartitions seven feet high with open iron tops, as shown at page 237, orone or more may be divided by travises into six stalls each six feet wide.I have already alluded to the fittings for each, and therefore I need saynothing more here beyond alluding to the plan itself. The architect employed by the St. Pancras Iron Works has designeda plan by which a loose box and two stalls may be arranged in a spaceonly sixteen feet by sixteen, as shown on the following page. Undoubtedlyit may sometimes happen that such an area may be at hand, and at thesame time, being incapable of alteration, it may be desirable to lodge R 242 THE HORSfi
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PLAN OF STABLE FOR THREE HORSES. NECESSITY FOR AIRING NEAV STABLES 243 three horses witliin it, which can scarcely be done in any other way. Butwhile I give him credit for his ingenuity,^ I would strongly object to thegeneral adoption of the plan when it can be avoided, on account of thedanger of injury from kicking caused by the proximity of the heels of twoof the horses to one another. The loose box, moreover, is very small, butstill we cannot expect to place three horses without crowding them in sucha limited space as this. Two feet more in length (that is eighteen feet)and one foot less in breadth (or fifteen feet) will give three good stalls; ortwo feet more each way (that is eighteen feet by eighteen) will make theabove plan practical. SERVANTS ROOMS Little need be here said of the servants rooms, but I certainly agreewith Mr. Miles in his objection to placing them over the horses. Quiet isessential to the sleep of these animals, and if grooms are to be walkingoverhead at all ho