TETHERING HORSES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 24, 14 November 1879, Page 2

TETHERING HORSES.

While on thi3 general subject, a bit of personal experience may be worth recording I have four young horses, three of them half Urloff, one a t<vo yeav-old filly, of unknown pedigree, large for her age, gentle, goodnamred, but bound to be'a leader in any mischief colt* can get into. .She will push over fences if she can ; she will jump over anything in the shape of a fence, and when out will wjan* dor beyond all account. Our f«lp&8 are pretty gcod, but this creature* know no bounds, so we bound her. She haa been tethered now for several . weeks, and we have had peace. The system followed is precisely that used' in the army, and 1 believe copied from French practice, namely, picketing by the fore foot By the hind foot for cows ; by the fore foot for horses is the way to tether safely. Thus fastened, the horsois absolutely secure. The tether-pin may even b^^ looso, ho cannot draw it out if tho B chain or rope is six feet long. 1/ have seen spirited horses thuS^ tethered, and kept wonderfully quiet. They seem to understand their helplessness, as much as a. nun when tied by his thumbs. I think I would risk an}' horse thus fastened. T have never seen one trip and fall, nor pull very hard upon tlie chain, nor get the chain around his hind leg. That ia really the great danger in tethering a horse by the head. He gets a rope or chain around his hind leg, and his foro feet being at liberty, ho plunges, cuts his pastern, or wears the skin off, and if no, other harm happens, he has a sore veryjjhard to heal,, and liable to break out in " grease," or " scrutolvV at any 4ime.