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  • From: Mayapple Farm and Gardens <mayapplefarm AT yahoo.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Re: Draft animals
  • Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 11:39:43 -0700 (PDT)

Paul, I use horses for about 80% of my farm work. As
I get better acquainted with my own abilities, I'm
hoping to make that around 95%.

There are quite a few advantages and disadvantages of
using horses or oxen, but both can be used equally
well for farming. If you have more than just a
passing interest in this, I would recommend a website
called
http://www.ruralheritage.com
There is a quite informative and entertaining
discussion forum called the front porch. Several MODA
members are participants. In the US, oxen seem to be
especially favored in the New England states.

Kevin



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Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:41:43 -0400
From: "Paul A. Bock" <bockpa AT plesh.com>
Subject: [Market-farming] Draft Animals
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Over the summer I went to a couple events with a group
called MODA,
Midwest
Ox Drover's Association. I have heard from time to
time on this list
about
people using horses for draft power. Are there many
people out there
using
draft animals? Any using oxen? An oxen being a
"steer with an
education",
and a steer is a castrated Bull. Some people don't
refer to a steer as
an
oxen until after they have been trained and are full
grown at four
years of
age. Kind of like a cow isn't a cow until she has
given birth, up
until
then she is a heifer. Something I didn't realize up
front was that
oxen can
be any breed of bovine. And here in cow country, it
turns out that
Holsteins are the dominant milk producer and actually
are some of the
largest oxen (2500 pounds each). And being handled so
much they are
very
good around humans. I have a friend who uses them for
logging. Ox
yokes
are cheaper and easier to make than the collars and
harness for horses.
Well, I was just curious if people are using these
animals on their
farms.

Paul Bock
Stone Gully



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Krystyna L. Prochocki
Kevin L. Strohmeier
May Apple Farm and Gardens
4020 N. Grandview Church Rd.
Big Spring, KY 40175
270/828-4953
mayapplefarm AT yahoo.com

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