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Title: The Horse : its treatment in health and disease, with a complete guide to breeding, training and management
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Axe, J. Wortley
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London : Gresham
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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ndent and heavy, they set off a well-formed head to the greatest advantage. As to length, connoisseurs are not exactly in agreement, someextolling the excellence of shortears, and others of long ones. Therecan be no doul)t, however, thatwith this, as with all other organs,they must be in harmony withrelated parts. A long head withshort ears is as unsiohtlv as whenthe proportions are reversed, andthe disfigurement is materiallyadded to in either case where theypresent a broad, thick, fleshy char-acter and an investment of coarsehair. Ears of medium length andwidth, thin, flexible, neither toopointed nor too rounded at thetip, well set up on a good l)ase,active and alert, are not only marks of good breeding, but impart to the fiice an expression of lightness, brightness, and intelligence. In most horses the temperament finds expression in the movements and disposition of these organs. In the nervous and excitable they are ever erect and respond to every sound, moving vigorously from one
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Fig. 3G.—Lung Ears LENGTH OF THE HEAD 43 position to another with rapid succession; while in the dull and lethargictlieir movements are slow and not easily awakened, and their generalcarriage is heavy and drooping. The backward set of the ears is frequently indicative of vice, and formsa feature in the kicker and the rogue, but is also seen habitually in someof tlie best-tempered and most tractable of animals. The general activity in the movement of the ears is a striking featurein the case of blind horses, whose sense of hearing would seem to becomemore and more acute as the loss of sight becomes more complete. Everysound engages the attention Avhere vision is lost, and the ears are keptin a state of constant activity, moving first in one direction and then inanother, the head at the same time being inclined in this direction orin that, to bring the ears more immediately in line with the source of thesound. Moreover, in these cases the head is carried high, and the fore-limbs, whic

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