Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

Magner's Classic Encyclopedia Of The Horse

by: Magner, Dennis

Magner's Classic Encyclopedia Of The Horse

by: Magner, Dennis

ISBN 13:
9780785818847
ISBN 10:
0785818847
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 06/01/2004
Publisher: Castle Books

Rent

Sorry, this item is currently unavailable.

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

Extend or Purchase Your Rental at Any Time

Need to keep your rental past your due date? At any time before your due date you can extend or purchase your rental through your account.

Summary

Originally published in 1887, this guide was the "Chilton" repair manual of horses. Containing a fascinating array of facts, explanations and diagrams, it divulges all the secrets of taming, controlling and "educating" unbroken and vicious horses, their abuses, diseases and remedies. Learn how to tell a horse's age by its teeth; how to break a horse of its kicking habit, teach a colt to follow with a whip, and much more.

CHAPTER I. Preliminary Explanations.

The Instincts of Lower Animals

Their Remarkable Powers

Adaptation of Domestic Animals to Special Wants of Man

Principles of Treatment

Necessary Qualifications for Success in Controlling Vicious Horses

(27)

CHAPTER II Principles and Secrets of the Art of Timing and Educating Horses.

Special Points of Importance

The War Bridle

Principles of its Application

The "W," or Breaking Bit

Training the Mouth

Four-ring, or Upper Jaw Bit

Half-moon Bit

Spoon Bit

Patent Bridle

Foot Strap

Patent Breaking Rig

(54)

CHAPTER III. Colt Training.

How to Make the Colt Gentle

Teaching to be Ridden, Handled, and to Follow

Various Methods

Making a Wild Colt Follow Instantly

How to Make any Sullen Colt Lead

Teaching a Colt or Horse to Follow with the Whip

Making the Colt Fearless of Objects and Sounds

Driving any Colt in Harness without Breeching

Training the Mouth, Biting, etc.

106

(24)

CHAPTER IV. Fear.

Susceptibility to Fear

How to Prevent and Overcome It

Illustrative Cases

Fear of Rattle of Wagon

Jumping out of Shafts

Top Carriage

Objects Exciting Fear while Riding or Driving

A Robe

Umbrella or Parasol

Sound of a Gun

Hogs and Dogs

Railroad Cars

Insanity.

130

(18)

CHAPTER V. Kicking.

Causes of Kicking

How to Prevent and Overcome It

Driving any Kicker without Breeching

Switching Kickers

Kickers in Stall

While Harnessing

Nervous Kickers

Kicking while Grooming

Runaway Kickers

148

(35)

CHAPTER VI. Running Away.

Runaway Kickers

Different Methods of Controlling the Mouth

How to Hold any Horse

Lugging, or Pulling upon One Rein

Making a Horse Back.

183

(10)

CHAPTER VII. Balking.

Preventing the Habit

Different Methods of Starting the Balker

How to Break up the Habit

Different Tricks Used

Will not Stand when Getting in or out of a Wagon

Double Balking

An Easy Method of Breaking a Double Balker

193

(16)

CHAPTER VIII. Bad to Shoe.

Taking up the Colt's Foot

Easy Method of Controlling Colts

Confirmed in the Habit

Simple Method of Making a Horse Stand to be Shod

The Control of Very Difficult Cases

Leaning Over

209

(13)

CHAPTER IX. Halter-Pulling.

How to Prevent any Colt or Horse from Halter-pulling

How to Break any Horse of the Habit

Running Back in the Stall when Unhitched

Standing Without Being Hitched

Hitching any Horse so that he will not Pull after Two or Three Minutes

222

(10)

CHAPTER X. Stallions.

Care in their Management

Treatment for Headstrong Stallions

Treatment for Very Vicious Stallions

How to Subdue and Control any Stallion so that he can be Called away from a Mare in a few Minutes

Special Tests Illustrating the Ease with which this can be Done

232

(14)

CHAPTER XI. Checking and Blinders.

Cruelty of Checking

The Foolishness of the Practice

Injurious to the Horse

Covering the Eyes

A Bad, Senseless Custom.

246

(17)

CHAPTER XII. The Mule.

His Subjection and Management

263

(3)

CHAPTER XIII. Miscellaneous Habits.

Cribbing

Wind-sucking

Putting the Tongue out of the Mouth

Pawing in Stall

Kicking in Stall

Getting Cast in Stall

Jumping over Fences

Tender-bitted

Kicking Cows

To Lead a Cow Easily

266

(9)

CHAPTER XIV. Teaching Tricks.

To Follow by the Whip

To Throw Boys

To Drive without Reins

To Tell the Age, etc., etc.

275

(11)

CHAPTER XV. Equestrianism.

Horseback Riding

Its Beneficial Effects upon the Health

Teaching to Ride

Position in the Saddle

A Model Riding Horse, etc

286

(10)

CHAPTER XVI. Breeding.

Principles of Breeding

Methods Adopted in Foreign Countries, etc

296

(5)

CHAPTER XVII. Stabling.

Construction of Stable

Air and Light

Form of Manger

301

(6)

CHAPTER XVIII. Feeding and Watering.

Cooked Food

Mr. Bonner's System

307

(6)

CHAPTER XIX. How to Tell the Age Accurately.

Caries of the Teeth

Treatment

313

(16)

CHAPTER XX. Shoeing.

Principles of Shoeing

Tips and Thin Shoes

Contraction

A Reliable Method of Preventing and Curing Contraction

Old Methods of Treating it

Quarter-crack

Simple Method of Curing Any Case

Crack, or Fissure of Toe

Corns

Causes, and Practical Method of Curing

Weak Heels

Their Management

Interfering

Clicking, or Overreaching

Stumbling

Shoeing Sore or Foundered Horses

Causes of Injury in Shoeing

329

(72)

DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT

CHAPTER XXI.

The Circulation

General Plan of the Circulatory System

Derangements of that System the Cause of Disease

Importance of Ventilation

401

(10)

CHAPTER XXII.

Anchylosis

Caries

Necrosis

Exostosis, or Bony Enlargement

Splints

Spavins

Ring-bone, Side-bone, or False Ring-bone

Curb

Bog Spavins and Thorough-pins

Capped Hock

Wind-galls

Navicular-joint

Lameness

Founder

Chronic Founder

Peditis

411

(42)

CHAPTER XXIII.

SEC. 1.

Catarrh

Laryngitis

Distemper

Glanders and Farcy

Chronic Cough

Heaves, or Broken Wind

Roaring

Bronchocele

Nasal Gleet

Influenza, Epizootic, or Catarrhal Fever

Pink-eye

Congestion of the Lungs

Pleurisy

Pneumonia

Hydrothorax

Typhoid Pneumonia

Bronchitis

453

(40)

SEC. 2.

Colic

Flatulent Colic

Inflammation of the Bowels

Superpurgation

Diarrhea

Constipation

Worms

Bots

Inflammation of the Kidneys

Profuse Staling

Inflammation of the Bladder

Retention of Urine

Bloody Urine

Inflammation of the Brain

Vertigo

Sun-stroke

493

(31)

SEC. 3.

Spinal Meningitis

Paralysis

Lock-jaw

Stringhalt

Thumps

Lymphangitis

Weed

Monday Morning Leg

Peritonitis

Indigestion

Acidity of the Stomach

Acute Indigestion

524

(12)

CHAPTER XXIV.

SEC. 1.

The Foot

Pricking in Shoeing

Stepping on Nails, Glass, etc.

Foot Lameness

Seedy Toe

Graveling

Bruise of the Sole

Treads, or Calks

Overreach

Quittor

Thrush

Canker

536

(12)

SEC. 2.

Sprains, Bruises, etc.

Sprain of the Back Tendons

Breaking Down

Sprain of the Fetlock

Shoulder Lameness

Sweeney

Hip Lameness

Knuckling Over

Broken Knees, or Open Joint

Fractures

Dislocation of Patella

Stifle-joint Lameness

548

(20)

SEC. 3.

Cuts or Wounds

Sore Mouth

Fistula of the Withers

Poll-evil

Diseases of the Eye

Dropsy

Swelled Legs

568

(24)

SEC. 4.

Diseases of the Skin

Surfeit

Nettle Rash, Hives, etc.

Mange

Hen Lice

Ring-worm

Scratches

Grease

Tumors

Sallenders

Saddle and Collar Galls

Tenotomy

Castration

Parturition

Counter-irritants

Fomentations

Poultices

The Pulse

Giving Balls

Physicking

Bleeding

Setons

The Rowel

Tracheotomy

Embrocations

Liniments

Rheumatism, Acute and Chronic

Warts

592

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

Magner's Classic Encyclopedia Of The Horse

Magner's Classic Encyclopedia Of The Horse

9780785818847

0785818847

Summary

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials

Write a Review

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

Magner's Classic Encyclopedia Of The Horse

Magner's Classic Encyclopedia Of The Horse

9780785818847

0785818847

Summary

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials

Write a Review

Related Products