4.2
But a well-secured stall is not only good for preventing theft of the fodder but also because one can see when the horse does not spill his food.In healthy excitement. See J. K. Anderson, in J.H.S. 80.1-2. And on noticing this one may be sure that either his body is overfull of blood and needs treatment or the horse is overworked and wants rest, or that laminitisSo J. K. Anderson, Ancient Greek Horsemanship, pp. 162, 207, not, as was once believed, colic. or some other ailment is coming on. It is the same with horses as with men: all distempers in the early stage are more easily cured than when they have become chronic and have been wrongly treated.
4.3
Just as the food and exercise of the horse must be attended to in order that he may keep sound, so his feet must be cared for. Now damp and slippery floors ruin even well-formed hoofs. In order that they may not be damp, the floors should have a slope to carry off the wet, and, that they may not be slippery, they should be paved all over with stones, each one about the size of the hoof. Such floors, indeed, have another advantage because they harden the feet of the horses standing on them.
