Dock for horses

contributed by Ethnomedica 21 Jan | 09:22


If the old horse-men found a dock root when they were ploughing they would pick it up and feed it to their HORSES … to bring up the ‘hammer marks’ [dapple marks] on their coats.

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From East Sussex (UK) in the 1990s

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