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  • From: "Jill Taylor Bussiere" <jdt AT itol.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Re: Draft animals
  • Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:47:49 -0500

Cuba, once the Soviet support collapsed with the Soviet State, increased its
use of oxen immensely, as well as developing an organic farming policy.
Since oxen aren't fueled with fossil fuels, and they have an added benefit
of providing fertilizer to replace the petroleum fertilizers that were
scarce once Soviet support for Cuba vanished, they were doubly beneficial.
Since many of the large state-owned farms in Cuba were broken up into
smaller tracts to be managed more locally, oxen were more easily fit in.
Cuba is another place you could look into to learn more.
Jill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mayapple Farm and Gardens" <mayapplefarm AT YAHOO.COM>
To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 1:39 PM
Subject: [Market-farming] Re: Draft animals


> 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
>
>
>
> >Message: 11
> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:41:43 -0400
> From: "Paul A. Bock" <bockpa AT plesh.com>
> Subject: [Market-farming] Draft Animals
> To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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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
>
>
>
> =====
> 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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