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Re: [Market-farming] no-till and farming with horses
- From: "Wyatt Jones" <wyatt_jones AT netzero.com>
- To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] no-till and farming with horses
- Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 20:18:28 -0400
I farmed at a "living history museum"
using draft horses. Lynn Miller has quite a few books on it. I would
highly recommend you find somebody experienced to learn from and get some
experience with if you want to take this route as it can be quite
dangerous, I would also not do it if you farm alone very much. Horses are
great and I couldn't recommend them highly enough but they can do some
unpredictable things and you have to be on top of them. I came close to
getting crushed once because this, well I won't say it here, started feeding
them grain when I wasn't finished hitching them and they of course went nuts
trying to eat each others grain with me caught in the middle of two
2300 lb percherons wondering if it was my last day on earth. Grain is like
heroin to horses and they will eat it till they bind up and die if you let
them. Never trusted that guy again I can tell you. They can
spook and take off running like a bat out of hell for no apparent reason, their
eyesight isn't very good. I worked with a young mare who spooked whenever
she saw a hedgeapple, hated woods. They all have their quirks but they are
great animals. I'd work with them myself if I didn't work alone so much
and I hope someday to do it again, they are great working companions. Some
people like to work with warm bloods, they aren't quite as calm but they are
half the size of a big draft and easier to harness, etc. Many Amish
like to use halflingers. I don't like their personality as much but they
are hard workers, small, tough and you can do a lot with them. There are
quite a few other types of draft ponies as well, some people hitch up 10 or 20
of them and pull quite a bit.
Sorry for the sermon but my point is
that. if you want to use horses, please get some hands on
training.
Wyatt
Jamestown , Ohio
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Re: [Market-farming] no-till and farming with horses
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- Re: [Market-farming] no-till and farming with horses, Diana Jancek, 05/14/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] no-till and farming with horses,
Richard Stewart, 05/15/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] no-till and farming with horses,
Bill Shoemaker, 05/15/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] no-till and farming with horses,
Richard Robinson, 05/15/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] no-till and farming with horses, Bill Shoemaker, 05/16/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] no-till and farming with horses,
Road's End Farm, 05/15/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] no-till and farming with horses,
Bill Shoemaker, 05/16/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] no-till and cover crop strips,
Road's End Farm, 05/16/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] no-till and cover crop strips, Bill Shoemaker, 05/16/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] no-till and cover crop strips,
Road's End Farm, 05/16/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] no-till and farming with horses,
Bill Shoemaker, 05/16/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] no-till and farming with horses,
Richard Robinson, 05/15/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] no-till and farming with horses,
Bill Shoemaker, 05/15/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] no-till and farming with horses, MAsteveINE, 05/15/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] no-till and farming with horses, Wyatt Jones, 05/14/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] no-till and farming with horses,
John Chambers, 05/15/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] no-till and farming with horses, Steve Diver, 05/16/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] no-till and farming with horses,
sunnfarm, 05/16/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] no-till and farming with horses, MAsteveINE, 05/16/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] no-till and farming with horses, Bill Shoemaker, 05/16/2010
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