Taplin improved; or a compendium of farriery; wherein is fully explained the nature and structure of ... a horse; with the diseases and accidents he is liable to; and the methods of cure, etc / By an experienced farrier.
- William Taplin
- Date:
- 1796
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Taplin improved; or a compendium of farriery; wherein is fully explained the nature and structure of ... a horse; with the diseases and accidents he is liable to; and the methods of cure, etc / By an experienced farrier. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Jockics and breeders, in order to make tbcir colts feeni five years old when they arc but four, pull out their laft colt’s teeth; but if all the coil’s teeth are gone, and no tufks appear, you may be certain. thiS'trick has been played: another arti- fice they ufc is’, to beat the bars every day with a wooden mallet, in the place where the tufks are to appear, in order to make them feem hard, as if the tufks were ]ufl ready to cut. When a horfe is coming fix years old, the two -Jower pitrcers fill up, and inflead of the holes above mentioned, fhew only a black fpot. Be- twixt fix and feven the two middle teeth fill up in the fame manner; and between feven and eight the corner teeth do the like; after which it is faid to be impoffibleto know certainly the age of a horfe, he having no longer any mark in the mouth. You can indeed only have recourfe to the tufks, and the fituation of the teeth, of which I fhall now fpeak. For the tufics you muft with your finger feel the infide of them from the point quite to the gum. If the trunk be pointed flat, and has two little channels within fide, you may be certain the horfe is not old, and at the utmoft only coming ten. Between eleven and twelve the two chan- inels are reduced to one, which after twelve is quite gone, and the tufks are as round within as they are without; you have no guide then but the fituation of the teeth. The longed teeth are- not always a fign of the greated age, but their hangingoverand pu firing forward ; astheirmcet- ing perpendicularly; is a certain token of youth. Many](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28764018_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
