FEEDING. 211 



CHAPTEK XYIIL 



YOUXG COLTS TO BE LIBERALLY FED COLTS CAN BE 



SAFELY WORKED TWICE A DAY IF NECESSITY RE- 

 QUIRES IT BREAKING TO HARNESS THE BITTING 



RIG LEARNING TO GO BY THE REIN IN DOUBLE 



HARNESS FIRST THEN IN SINGLE HARNESS SKELE- 

 TON WAGON BEFORE SULKY FIND OUT WHAT YOU 



ARE GOING TO DO BEFORE YOU TRY TO DO IT — 'ADOPT 



A PROGRA:VOIE the necessity of keeping the GAIT 



SQUARE AND PRESERVING THE NATURAL BALANCE. 



It is not my purpose to here refer at length to the 

 feeding and iveepmg of colts and horses. I will treat 

 on these details at another place. However, as we are 

 noAV working our colt the reader may properly be 

 reminded that it h important to see that the young- 

 ster is kept strong and stout. A very good diet at 

 this stage is, besides the usual hay, ground oats for 

 the morning meal, and at night a dish of ground oats, 

 barley and a dash of bran steamed, the right ])ropor- 

 tion being about three parts of oats to one of barley. 

 Give the colts all they will eat up clean. A colt can- 

 not get too fat before he is two years old. Between 

 his growth and his worlv all he can eat will be assimi- 

 lated. The rule is that colts go back in condition after 

 weaning. This is not as it should be, for a colt that is 

 properly fed and cared for will improve after weaning. 



