TURNING OUT HORSES TO GRASS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 137, 22 September 1870, Page 3

TURNING OUT HORSES TO GRASS.

A correspondent writes as follows upon this subject : — " The fact is, that when horses have suffered in their work from anything of the nature of strains of the sinews or their ligaments, or or when their legs are very much the worso for wear, they should be allowed no exercise but such as they can get in a loose box ; they should be treated as a man would be who had sprained his ankle and must be confined to his sofa. On the other hand, I have seen horses which were pretty good on their legs, but stale, groggy, and tucked up from hard work and dry and exciting food, improve as if by magic when turned out to grass on the following plan. I have housed them during the day-time in a well-ventilated building, darkened so as to exclude the sun and flies, given them about half-a-peck of corn daily, with bran and clover chaff; they have then been turned out at night in a pasture in which there was an abuudance of grass. Under these circumstances they are nevertorinented by flies ; when they are out all in cool and quiet, the long grass saturated with dew supplies an admirable, cool, refrigerating poultice to their legs and feet, aud the grass they get, combined with their daily feed of corn, seems to plump up their bodies without much interfering with their conition for work. I have taken up horses treated in this wayaslateas September, and had them in very fair order for work by the commencement of the hunting season. T am aware that this system will not suit all horses ; small barrelled washy horses are too much purged by gi*een food ; they are also, in general, restless , and I irritable, galloping about and teasing

their companious, and so are better at home. It may be said against this plan that it gives more trouble than keeping the horses altogether in the stable, and is not economical. This may possibly be the case, but with valuable horses we must not grudge a little trouble; I believe, in the long run, it will prove more economical than leaving the animals out in the field all day exposed to the heat of the sun and the attacks of the incessantly persecuting flies I cannot sufficiently praise what Mr. Cartledge said some time ago respecting allowing horses a more liberal supply of water than is done by many horsekeepers ; in fact, the supply should be unrestricted, and where it can be possibly managed it should be always placed before them. The mastication and digestion of such dry provender as hay and corn are cannot be propely carried on with out occasional sips of liquid to wash them down. Let a man try to make a hearty meal on oatmeal-cake or biscuit without any drink, and he will soon find himself nearly choked." — " European Mail."

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