[CharlyBonifaz]

In addition to some of the teamster adjectives used such as patience and persistence, I would like to add humility to the list.

Very much so, especially when they turn back to you with so much more trust than you ever expected…

[CharlyBonifaz]

oh my….
any chance you can find someone that will work him the way you planned originally?
over here, we have one ox in “animal assisted therapy”, may be that would be an option to put him to good use?
any hiking tourists in your area? ever thought of using him for a packing-ox?
:confused: thinking….

[CharlyBonifaz]

:rolleyes: go for it!

[CharlyBonifaz]

They are short and stocky animals

From what I understand that is the proposed reason why ponies can pull so much more compared to their weight as “big” horses;
in theory: the more the line of draft is level, the easier it should be to pull

[CharlyBonifaz]

couldn’t help it, but when I saw it I immediately thought of a perm ……
😀

Make sure that you only heat up the tip

positively, that is also what they do; I imagine besides that, the closer you work on the head the more you risk burning parts you don’t want to

[CharlyBonifaz]

Probably helps to have a short thick neck.

if new to the front head yoke one can clearly observe how the animal tries to find the most efficient way to pull/push, that includes variations of line of draft

[CharlyBonifaz]

example of 2 single forehead-yokes (thuringian style)

[CharlyBonifaz]

example of 2 single forehead-yokes (thuringian style)

[CharlyBonifaz]

if as a rule its easier (?) for the cattle to pull with a neckyoke, why would it be forbidden in eastern europe.

the headyoke was forbidden in Germany (not necessarily in Eastern Europe) about a hundred years ago for animal welfare reasons; although I have never worked with such a yoke I can see the problem: the yoke rests in the hollow behind the horns and this is a rather tender spot for one, plus usually a lot of hay/gras-debrise accumulates there and if you don’t clean it out properly I can imagine there will be sores easily; the farmers then must have used these yokes also without the padding, so it needed to be fit to the animal extremely well too…..

There is interest in the German 3-pad collar but there is some concern that they will not hold up under some of the heavy loads that we sometimes pull such as pulling competitions, logging or plowing.

they won’t, at least for real hard work…..thought there even was a paper on that at Tillers…..

[CharlyBonifaz]

if as a rule its easier (?) for the cattle to pull with a neckyoke, why would it be forbidden in eastern europe.

the headyoke was forbidden in Germany (not necessarily in Eastern Europe) about a hundred years ago for animal welfare reasons; although I have never worked with such a yoke I can see the problem: the yoke rests in the hollow behind the horns and this is a rather tender spot for one, plus usually a lot of hay/gras-debrise accumulates there and if you don’t clean it out properly I can imagine there will be sores easily; the farmers then must have used these yokes also without the padding, so it needed to be fit to the animal extremely well too…..

There is interest in the German 3-pad collar but there is some concern that they will not hold up under some of the heavy loads that we sometimes pull such as pulling competitions, logging or plowing.

they won’t, at least for real hard work…..thought there even was a paper on that at Tillers…..

[CharlyBonifaz]

thanks for sharing! 😮

[CharlyBonifaz]

I wonder what these “bonus” foods consist of

as omnivores they will eat rodents, edible roots, bulbs and mushrooms, worms and grubs, snails and slugs, even aquatic plants, leaves and shoots and fruits/berries/nuts of various other woody plants and grasses/herbs, eggs and chicks of (ground-nesting) birds, they will even eat carrion and dig up young rabbits from their burrows
loooong list ….

[CharlyBonifaz]

sorry, don’t have a clue on what you call it, but…..

Is there anyway to make this into a cart harness?

if the shafts of the cart can be elongated to run all the way up front to the collar where the traces start, it should work for carts……

[CharlyBonifaz]

😀 goodlooking

-the boys

ps: I like your homepage!

[CharlyBonifaz]

many silly questions and make many silly mistakes

welcome in the club 😀 been there, done that 😮
english longhorns?

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