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Oxen: A Teamster's Guide (Storey's Working Animals) - Hardcover
Book 3 of 3: Storey's Working Animals
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Versatile as well as powerful, oxen can plow fields, haul stones, assist in logging, and improve roads. This comprehensive guide covers all aspects of selecting, training, feeding, and caring for your oxen. You’ll learn how to fit yokes and bows, address common challenges, and maintain your team’s overall health. Whether you’re looking for an economical alternative to heavy machinery on the farm or want to compete at the next county fair, Drew Conroy will help you achieve success with your oxen.
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Operating Manual for the Mighty Ox
From plowing and hauling to logging and demonstrating traditional farming techniques, oxen contribute their trustworthy strength to many tasks. Calm and easy to work with, they are perennial favorites at farm museums, in municipal parades, and at county fairs. Here is the definitive resource to owning and working a team of your own.
With Drew Conroy's reliable advice, you will select your ideal animals, feed and house them properly, begin their basic training, fit them with a yoke and bows, and look after their health. Finally, you will take on the satisfying process of training your team to master the working skills you desire.
Farm with them, show them off, or compete with them – there is much to admire about the mighty ox.
From plowing and hauling to logging and demonstrating traditional farming techniques, oxen contribute their trustworthy strength to many tasks. Calm and easy to work with, they are perennial favorites at farm museums, in municipal parades, and at county fairs. Here is the definitive resource to owning and working a team of your own.
With Drew Conroy's reliable advice, you will select your ideal animals, feed and house them properly, begin their basic training, fit them with a yoke and bows, and look after their health. Finally, you will take on the satisfying process of training your team to master the working skills you desire.
Farm with them, show them off, or compete with them – there is much to admire about the mighty ox.
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Oxen A Teamster's Guide to Raising, Training, Driving & Showing
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Storey Publishing, LLC, North Adams, MA, 2008
ISBN 10: 1580176933
ISBN 13: 9781580176934
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