HORSESHOEING. 



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Fig. 55. 



under the body. Wlien this deviation affects only the cannon 

 bone, the horse stands bent forward at the knees, — a condition 

 known as " goat-hneed," " hu-ck-hneed" " over in the knees" 

 or, more commonly, "knee-sprung" (Fig. 54). When the 

 backward deviation is only from the fet- 

 lock do^vn, the animal is said to stand up- 

 right or "straight in the fetlock" 



(b) A hind leg viewed from behind 

 is said to be regular or straight (Fig. 55) 

 when a perpendicular line dropped from 



Fig. 57. 



Normal (regular) position Base-wide (cow hocked), 

 viewed from behind. 



Base-narrow. 



the tuberosity of the ischium (see Fig. 1, 9'') divides the entire 

 limb into inner and outer halves of equal width and touches 

 the groimd opposite the median lacuna of the frog. Seen from 

 the side, this line just touches the point of the hock and, passing 

 down at some distance from the flexor tendons, meets the ground 



