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I love these donkeys, It was nice to see them in person at HPD last year, complete with their “Not a Mule” hangers. Such lovely manners they have.

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no shooting, just wanted to make sure info was correct for the equipment seekers, no worries.

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j.l.holt, do you mean http://www.macknair.com/? They are in PA.

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I once dealt with a horse that was wicked barn sour, I would end work in the good direction, and though a pain, I would reward him by unsaddling and grooming away from the barn and we eventually calmly walked back to the barn from there. I didn’t take long for him to chill out and be fine with this change of routine and eventually worked fine in both directions and was good going back to the barn. I know it is a horse not an ox. but if you mix things up sometimes you may find a more desirable behavior.

Good luck.

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It can make great silage or balage if managed correctly, cows can milk very well on this stuff. It was used a lot in spring of 2000 in NY because of a super wet spring and no time for corn. Those that made good product saw an increase in milk production, those that did not time cutting right and got a poor product were not happy with the results.

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Good work Natalie!

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Today was a big plowing day.   I thought is might be good to split the black mares up and match them with the greys of like ambition.  Sam broke sod behind the house with the big geldings and the overachieving mare.  I used the less ambitious 3 to plow rye in my large field.  It was good matching the slow mare with the old team, once the lines were adjusted, they quietly plodded along light in my hand.  No getting frustrated with the speed demon and getting the others upset too, none were in a hurry, yet in no time we had our 1/4 acre done  and back to the barn before dark.  It is nice to have a team that never runs out of power, but it is nice to have a team that doesn’t try to rip my arms out of their sockets, I found a good balance for plowing today 🙂

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Great drawings Marko, it was very easy to understand your ideas that way.  It would be neat to see how this design works in the field.

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Great job team Roxbury!  I think that you will discover more little tasks that you can do with 4 legs that just wasn’t possible with 4 wheels 🙂

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I don’t recall the spacing, but I am going to try every 12 feet for bush type and 6 feet for my few snow peas.  I once tried the horizontal flower trellis netting from Johnny’s it was Ok but tougher to clean up than the basket weaved peas.

 

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But you still get manure and that should count for some energy even if they are idle.

 

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I have basket weaved them like tomatoes in the past with success. Just wooden or rebar stakes and tomatoes twine.

 

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Horse Progress Days was in Clare last year, the road that Gateway Manufacturing is on is a great drive and there is a very nice Amish store on that road, they even had an ox yoke for sale in the back room.  We had a great time in Michigan last summer.

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Jared,

Since we still can’t PM- I have a friend in Greenwich that would love some Tamworths, do mind contacting me about price and if you are able to get any extra this year?  marczake@hotmail.com.

Thanks,

 

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Donn,

Glad to see that plow turning good furrows!  Daniel and Scott were great to have around and word on the street is that along with Tim they turned quite a few heads in the ice cream stand 🙂

I like the looks of your neighbors set up, it looks a little awkward, but I bet that horse in the furrow would be less happy in the plowed ground.  That is the way I see many folks plow with 4, one horse on the plowed ground, it makes me wonder if the driver/owner would think differently if he/she had to walked in the plowed ground as well.

 

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