SEEDY TOE — SELLING 



Seedy Toe, which either very often succeeds an attack of 

 laminitis, or may result from the clip of the shoe pressing 

 too tightly, or concussion, is 

 usually caused by the horn of 

 the foot at the toe becoming 

 detached from the tip of the 

 coffin bone inside, though in ex- 

 ceptional cases other parts than 

 the toe are affected. Seedy toe 

 does not always produce lame- 

 ness, though it constitutes un- 

 soundness, and therefore if, on 

 the walls of the foot being 

 tapped at the toe, one of the 

 hoofs gives out a hollow sound, 

 its presence may be suspected. 



Treatment. — The unhealthy 

 horn inside the wall must be cut away, and the growth of 

 the healthy horn stimulated by blistering. A bar -shoe 

 should be worn, and there should be no clip on the shoe 

 when the horse first returns to work, which will be after a 

 few weeks' rest in a box, or out at grass. (See Bar-shoe^ 

 Blistering^ Twning Out.) 



Seedy Toe. 



Selling. — If a man possesses a good, reliable horse of any 

 variety, he will find no difficulty in disposing of him, if not 

 for quite the price he would like to receive, at all events at 

 a profitable one. Should no purchaser be forthcoming from 

 amongst the circle of his friends, an advertisement will 

 usually secure a customer ; or, better still, the animal can be 

 sent to a respectable repository for sale under the hammer. 

 If so, he should be advertised beforehand, so that genuine 

 bidders may be attracted by his perfections, which, of course, 

 will have to be described, and if a warranty can be given so 

 much the better. Otherwise it is possible that private 

 buyers in want of just such a horse may not attend the 

 sale, and if so the dealers who are present are enabled to 



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