CORNS IN HORSES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19363, 21 July 1925, Page 8

CORNS IN HORSES

False economy or else carelessness in keeping shoes on too long are the chief causes of corns in horses, writes Mr. Harold Leeney, M.1.C.V.5.. in Farmer and Stockbreeder. There are feet specially prone, also by reason of their conformation, yet it cannot be said that the narrow and upright foot is any guarantee of immunity. The broad, flat foot, which the fen country breeds, is very liable to corns caused by bruising, through thin *nn<l soft born, but little corns high up in a foot with a wired-in heel —the mountain type of foot—may be the cause of lameness, and not be suspected or sutliciently for if thought of. The forming corn does not cause the acute lameness of Ihe pricked foot, or the short gait of navicular disease which improves our exorcise, but induces a fumbliness or discomfort, which only develops into actual lameness later if not relieved. Farm horses receive the least amount of attention in the matter of shoeing, as their work is chiefly on the land, and as long as the shoe hangs on and standing up clenches are not wounding the opposite limb, the ploughman will not be alarmed, nor is the owner anxious to incur the high cost of replacement. which includes so much time occupied in sending to the distant smithv.