Oxen, A Teamster's Guide
The definitive text on training, working and keeping oxen. Topics include selecting the ideal team, housing your oxen, feeding, training principles, advanced training, making a neck yoke and bow, hitching options, logging with oxen, hoof care and much more.
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Implements for Farming with Horses & Mules
This book, by Sam Moore of Rural Heritage, covers most of the farm implements used with horses today. It not only describes them, but shows you how to use each piece of machinery, adjust it for good work, and maintain it.Drawing on a lifetime studying horsedrawn machinery and farming implements, Moore provides expert knowledge about tillage equipment, haymaking implements, planting and cultivating machines, and a lot more. Over 300 pages. 8.5 x 11 inches. Paperback. Well illustrated.
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Work Horse Handbook - Second Edition
Lynn Miller (Editor of the Small Farmer’s Journal) has concentrated on the use of draft horses for work. He covers such topics as choosing, housing, feeding, harnessing, hitching, and working draft horses.
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Draft Horses, An Owner's Manual
This book discusses how to guage your horse’s health, the particular disorders that affect draft horses, how to safely administer medicine, starting a draft foal, how to maintain a sound hoof, judging soundness, and other topics.
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Draft Horses and Mules
Written to be useful to the beginner and experienced teamster alike, this book covers everything from why one should choose draft horses or mules for their power source, to how to use them and take care of them once they have made their choice. Well illustrated and filled with stories of "real world" teamsters doing real work with their animals. It is a valuable addition to any library, and an excellent volume to start a collection.
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They Did It with Horses
Philip Weber spent most of the last century collecting thousands of photos of horses at work. He picked the best from that collection to put in this new book.
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It's Showtime!
This book covers what judges look for, grooming your horse for the show ring, what to bring to the show, how to safely transport horses, shoeing for the showring, showing at halter and in harness, tail tying, mane rolling, preparation at home.
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Book of Mules, The
Donna Campbell Smith. 2009. A comprehensive look at mules, including their origin and history, how to buy and keep a mule, working mules, mule celebrations, competing with mules, and raising mules from foal. A small book packed with a lot of information and resources. Fully illustrated with color photography. Hardcover. 6 x 9 inches. 124 pages.
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Marshall Collection - Horse Drawn Commercial Vehicles
An extensive collection of horse-drawn vehicles including wagons, carts, vans, trolleys, coaches, sleighs, buses, cabs, fire-fighting equipment, and
much more.
much more.
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Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It, The
John Seymour is known and respected as the "Father of Self-Sufficiency". This complete back-to-basics guide has been revised and fully updated to remain the key reference to living off the land.It has new material on organic gardening, creating an urban garden, generating power from wind, water and the sun, and guidelines on making the change to self-sufficiency. Beautifully illustrated with thousands of lovely colored drawings and sketches. 311 pages. 8 x 11 inches. Hardcover.
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