GOING UP TO HORSE — GOOSE RUMP 



a stable, the local authorities should at once be notified — 

 this is compelled by law — and the suspected animal should 

 be immediately isolated. His stable companions should 

 likewise be kept by themselves away from other horses, and 

 strictly watched to ascertain whether symptoms appear ; 

 whilst the litter and droppings should be carefully collected 

 and burned, and all the woodwork of the stable, particularly 

 those parts which may have been in contact with the 

 heads of the horses, and the floors should be thoroughly 

 scoured out and disinfected, the walls and ceilings being 

 lime-whited, and carbolic acid must be added to the water 

 in which the lime is mixed. Extreme care should be taken 

 in discharging the above duties, and when touching an 

 affected or suspected horse, as many fatal cases of glanders 

 have been known to occur amongst grooms and others. 



Symptoms. — A thick, sticky, lead-coloured, offensive dis- 

 charge from the nose — only one nostril being usually affected 

 — which, if placed in water, will sink. Ragged-edged ulcers 

 usually appear in the nostrils, and the glands frequently 

 adhere to the jaw. If these symptoms appear it is an 

 undoubted case of glanders, and the horse should be at 

 once destroyed, and his body either burned or buried deep 

 in quicklime. (See Farcy.) 



Going up to Horse. — A horse ought always to be 

 approached from the near side when he is in a stall, and 

 in fact on all occasions when possible, as he is accustomed 

 to this. The wise man approaches a strange horse warily, 

 as there is never any knowing what an animal's vices may 

 be. When the hand once gets on the horse's withers, and 

 he allows himself to be patted, the risk of danger is con- 

 siderably reduced, but there is still a risk of a playful bite 

 or a cow-kick. In short, one cannot be too careful with a 

 horse until his peculiarities are understood. (See Biting, 

 Cow-kick, Kicking.) 



Goose Rump. — A term applied to quarters which droop 



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