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HORSESHOEING. 



some instances the legs are straight and perpendicular doAvn to 

 the fetlock, while from there to the ground the phalanges incline 

 obliquely inward. Another form is the knee-tvide or bandy-legged 

 position, in which the knees are placed too far apart, while the 

 cannons and phalanges incline downward and inward. 



The position of a fore-limb viewed in profile is regular or 

 normal (Fig. 42) when a perpendicular line dropped from the 



Normal (regular) position of limbs viewed from tlie side. 



middle of the shoulder-blade (tuberosity of the acromion spine) 

 divides the leg from the elbow to the fetlock into anterior and 

 posterior halves of equal width, and touches the ground imme- 

 diately back of the bulbs of the heel. The foot-axis (line of 

 direction of the three phalanges) and the wall at the toe form an 

 angle of from forty-five to fifty degrees with the horizontal 

 ground-surface. 



