It danced sideways, shaking its white fetlocks and looking frightened, as it felt itself in the brook.
Needless to say, marked lameness and swelling of the fetlock soon take place.
Shoulder, elbow, knee, and fetlock are all easily and painlessly flexed and extended.
The horses were great, docile creatures, with shaggy, clumsy legs, hoofs as big as dinner plates, and fetlocks six inches long.
They sank above the fetlocks at every step in the soft snow.
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The hindfetlockjoint was found to show increased abduction with the heel wedges during stance.
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We are left with the fetlocks of the backend of a pantomime horse.
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I saw it in the procession with a piece of tape round one of its fetlocks.
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But the more one seeks to introduce these statutory fetlocks around judicial discretion the greater the risk that miscarriages of justice will occur.
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This is not only unsightly and unattractive but extremely dangerous to the animals, because many of the bottles get broken and the animals cut their fetlocks on them.
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The legs are also trimmed, removing allfetlockhair and feathering, and trimming the pasterns and coronet.
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Thefetlockis a hinge joint (ginglymus), allowing flexion and extension, but minimal rotation, adduction, or abduction.
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It is indicated for carpal andfetlockjoint dysfunctions, but not when joint sepsis or fracture are suspected.
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He sustained a fractured cannon bone, a sesamoid bone and a dislocatedfetlockjoint on his right fore leg.
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Chestnuts do not have true black tones in their coats, and will usually reveal reddish character around the fetlocks.
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Horses usually have any long body hair trimmed short, particularly around the fetlocks, jaw, and ears.
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Wrapping styles also differ in whether the wrap extends, sling-like, beneath thefetlockjoint.
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They also perfected the art of running directly at cavalry to cut the horses in the bellies and fetlocks as they ran underneath them.
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Some equines have them on all four fetlocks; others have few or no detectable ergots.
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Therefore, thefetlockand pastern are responsible for all the absorption of concussive forces of a footfall.
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