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HORSESHOEING. 



Fig. 58. 



considerably back of the heels. A perpendicular line dropped 

 from the hip-joint should pass through the foot, meeting the 

 ground half-way between the point of the toe and the heel 

 (Fig. 49). There are base-wide, base-narrow, toe-wide, and 

 toe-narrow deviations in the hind limbs as in the fore-limbs. 



The hind limbs are hase-wide when they, either as a whole 

 or in part, deviate outward from the normal. The " cow- 

 hoched" position (Fig. 56) is an example of the base-wide; in 

 this case the points of the hocks are too 

 close and turn towards each other, while 

 the feet are widely separated and the 

 toes turned outward. Base-narrow is 

 that position of the hind legs in which 

 either the entire leg deviates to the inner 

 side of the perpendicular (Fig. 57), or 

 the leg is about perpendicular down as 

 far as the hock, but below this joint runs 

 downward and inward (Fig. 58). In this 

 latter case the hocks may be too far apart, 

 the leg is bent outward at the hock and 

 the animal is termed " handy-legged," 

 " how-legged." 



Viewing a hind limb from the side, 

 it may be observed to deviate either 

 forward or backward from the normal. 

 Among forward deviations is the so- 

 called " sahre-leg " or " sicMe-hoch " (Fig. 

 59), in which the hock-joint is too much flexed, the foot placed 

 too far forward under the body, and the fetlock too slanting. 

 In the position known as "cammed hehind" (Fig. 60) the 

 leg is behind the body and the pastern is too upright, too nearly 

 vertical. 



It is possible for each limb of the same horse to assume a 

 different direction. It more often happens that if the fore- 

 limbs are base-wide the hind limbs are ba'se-narrow, or vice 



Base-narrow position of hind 

 limbs (bandy-legged). 



