Telling the Horse's Age by the Teeth.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 126, 28 January 1909, Page 3

Telling the Horse's Age by the Teeth.

The horse has lA temporary teem. A male has -10 permanent teeth; the female 36 or 10. The smaller number is more usual in females, clue to the lack of tusks. The temporary teeth consist of twelve incisors and twelve molars; Their centre front teeth, two above and two below, are called pinchers; the next four are called intermediate. or lateral, and the next four, corner teeth. The permanent teeth consist of twelve incisors, four tusks, and twenty-four molars. The dental star is a yellowish ring appearing next the enamel, on the table, or crown of the tooth. The following table shows approximately the chaiiges of the^teeth with age: - Three to ten days: Temporary pinchers rind three molars cut. Forty to sixty-days: Temporary in termrdiate. or laterals, cut. Six to nine months: Temporary corner teeth cut.

Nineteen to twenty-five months Levelling of temporary corner teeth.

two and a half, to three years: Pinchers replaced by permanent teeth. Thrre ami a-half to four years:lntermediated, or laterals replaced. Four to four and a-half years: Tusks cut. Four nnd a-half to fi\«- years: Corner treth replaced. Five to six yeats: Levelling of lower pin •'lit rs.

S-vrn .vars: levelling of permanmt intermediates.

Eipht ynprs: Dental star and notches in pinchers. Xine years: Dental star in intermediate?. Ten year.*: Dental star in corner teeth.

Ensilage is a green fodder that has been preserved in bulk in such a condition that its original succulence and feeding properties arc retained. When the ensilage is fed to stock, approximately the s*ame results are obtainable from it as from the same weight of the fodder »wh< n [freshly 'rut or of grass at the lime it is grazed.