When first stabled, horses are much disposed to stand as far out of the stall as they can get. They dislike the confinement; they want to see about them, and they dislike the impure air so often found at the head of stalls when damp or soiled litter is thrown below the manger. The habit of standing in the gangway is inconvenient, particularly in double-headed stables, and injury is sometimes done by the efforts to prevent it. The horse may be tied short, close to the rack or to the manger; but hard work, tender feet, or bad legs, may forbid this, since it prevents lying. The only alternative is to hang a bale behind him, upon which a furze-bush may be fastened. By-and-by, when the horse becomes accustomed to stand within the stall, the bale may be removed. It is seldom, however, that the habit is attended with so much inconvenience as to require this. The usual practice of suddenly striking or whipping the horse when he is found in the gangway, is foolish, and often dangerous. The horse makes a violent spring into the stall, and when his feet happen to slip, he receives a severe wrench, producing stifle, or hip lameness, or sprained loins.

I have seen the thigh-bone broken in this way, and the horse had to be destroyed.

Lying in the Gangway is common among those horses that stand in the gangway. They lie so far out of the stall that the halter-rein is put upon the stretch, and the horse's head has not sufficient freedom to let him rise. He must be unbound before he can get up. He has to lie perhaps all night on one side in an awkward position, and next day he is stiff and sore all over, and as unfit for work as if he had rested none all night. The only way of preventing this is by suspending a bale behind him, in the same manner as for preventing the habit of standing in the gangway.

High and long travises are apt to make horses occupy the gangway both for standing and for lying. A horse that is very troublesome in either way, may be tried in a baled stall, or in one having low and short travises.