30 BREEDING AND REARING OF 



TREATMENT OF BREEDING JACKS. 



SECTION SIXTH. 



A breeding jack to keep him healthy and vigorous, 

 should not be confined unduly to his stable. He should 

 run out in his lot twelve hours in twenty-four if the 

 weather is favorable. Feed him principally on shelled 

 oats and wheat bran — sheaf oats cut fine and mixed 

 wheat bran and occasionally shorts ; put enough water 

 to make the bran stick to the oats, add a little salt to 

 give the food a good relish. The bran acts as a 

 laxative. Jacks are inclined to be costive. When this 

 is the trouble give a mash and increase his green food. 

 Green wheat and barley are good grazing for jacks. 

 Never give more than two to four ears of corn at a 

 feed. Should you notice the jack inclined to rub his 

 body or bite his limbs you had better stop giving him 

 corn. Jacks are subject to sores in hot weather, espe- 

 cially if they are kept in the stable too much, and fed 

 on corn unduly. I have known them ruined by letting 

 them have chronic sores, which caused their death. 

 You will please bear this in mind, not to keep your 

 jacks too much confined, or to feed unduly on corn. 

 I do not remember ever seeing jennets have sores 

 that were allowed to run in the open air and graze. 

 I am sure that jacks would live much longer and be 

 more prolific if they were allowed more freedom in 

 the open air and allowed to follow their instincts. 

 They are great animals to wallow. I think it a good 



