Castrating "fillies at nine days of age" - that I'd like to watch! (since fillies are female).
I must try to find a copy of Tusser and read what he wrote about this, since I'm pretty sure he
didn't intend surgery on fillies.
Sue Millard
http://www.fellponymuseum.org.uk
On 17 Jan 2014 at 11:44, Simon Davis wrote:
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> on the matter of castration of horses, tho not very early of course and in case of interest, here is
> what
> some old English writers had to say on the matter:
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> Thomas Tusser (1580, chap 32, January's husbandry) recommends "Thy colts for thy saddle geld
> yoong to
> be light," while fillies at "nine daies of age".
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> Gervase Markham (1657, 36) recommends gelding at nine or 15 days, if the stones appear, or
> as soon as they have fallen into the cod.
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> If anyone wants the references I can send these.
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> simon
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> De: Analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites em nome de Salima Ikram
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> Assunto: Re: [ZOOARCH] horseshoes
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> Attached is what was sent to me recently.
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> Egyptology Unit Head
> Professor of Egyptology
> American University in Cairo
> P. O. Box 74, Road 90, Tagammu 5
> New Cairo 11825, EGYPT
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> On 17 Jan 2014, at 02:40, Deb Bennett wrote:
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> > John, you know, I can't think of a single treatment of this subject that
> > would have validity as a scholarly piece of work. This may stem in part
> > from the fact that there continues to be controversy as to when and where
> > nailed horseshoes first appear -- as you've seen recently if you follow
> > this Forum, there is good evidence that they begin in Roman times in
> > western Europe and maybe earlier in the East, but there are still many
> > doubters who think they don't come along until Atilla the Hun.
> >
> > The best general hippological work IMO is the one entitled "Horsemanship"
> > written in 1974 by Charles Chenevix-Trench. Also right up there are
> > Isenbart's "The Kingdom of the Horse", Jankovich's "They Rode Into
> > Europe," Gianoli's "Horses and Horsemanship Through the Ages," and Anthony
> > Dent's "The Horse Through Fifty Centuries of Civilization." All of these
> > give lots of photographs and some historical artwork and/or documents, and
> > all of them mention horseshoes, but horseshoes are not the main focus of
> > the work.
> >
> > There are also quite a number of books written by farriers, usually for
> > the ear of other farriers, but sometimes also in an attempt to communicate
> > with the horse owner; and a few of these, vis. especially Doug Butler's
> > encyclopedic "Horseshoeing", attempt a history. Again, however, history is
> > not the main focus and none of the authors have any credentials as
> > historians or archaeologists.
> >
> > I would love to hear from anyone else on this list if they know of a
> > scholarly or "accessible scholarly" work on the subject of the history of
> > the horseshoe. There may be something in the more antique literature, back
> > from a day when horseshoes still mattered to the military and to the
> > transportation and farming industries. From a historical point of view,
> > the subject is still of importance today and, I would think, would make a
> > wonderful thesis subject. -- Dr. Deb
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