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[Mark <mpludwig@facstaff.wisc.edu>]

We have also had quite a thread on raw milk on grazers edge, It is all 
archived if people are interested.
M


> Midwest Ox Drovers Association and Tillers International are great sources
> of information for folks who may have an interest in training working
> steers & oxen.
>
> Drew Conroy's "The Oxen Handbook" is a must-have for aspiring ox drovers.
>
> The September 1993 issue of Smithsonian magazine also had a nice article on
> oxen, with a pair featured prominently on the front cover.
>
> Through the years, I've accumulated bits and pieces of info on training and
> handling steers/oxen, including photocopies of abbreviated handbooks, less
> complete than Conroy's, but quite interesting - one by Les Barden in
> Rochester NY, and another, by an 80 yr old gentleman(whose name I've now
> lost) who had spent a lifetime training and working steers/oxen(this may
> also have been Mr. Barden - it's been so long, I've forgotten who sent the
> info).
>
> I'd always heard and read about oxen, but never saw one until I was a
> senior in veterinary school, when we got in one half of a pair of Brown
> SwissXSimmental oxen in from a logger in northern FL; I'd never before or
> since, seen a 'cow' that tall - even bigger than any of the Chianina bulls
> I later had to deal with.  This old fellow had an LDA and had lost a
> tremendous amount of body condition, but I'm certain he was quite
> impressive in full working flesh.
>   I had a former client in southern middle TN who got me interested in oxen
> - he had a pair of Brown Swiss; but as is the case with so many other
> things, I just never have gotten around to starting a pair.
> I keep meaning to visit the Land Between the Lakes '1850 Homeplace',
> located not much more than a half-hour from me, and visit with the fellow
> there who's in charge of their team of oxen, but I've just never made the
> time to do so.
>
> Keep those ox tales and info coming...
>
>
> Lucky Pittman
> USDA Zone 6
> Hopkinsville, KY
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Mark P. Ludwig
Poultry Research Lab
University of Wisconsin -Madison
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