Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Let It Snow! Let It Snow!: Ox in Winter

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Scout the Ox Begins His Second Winter --- With a Smile The blaze orange ribbon was for safety during hunting season. Winter for Sco...
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Ox in Training: Hauling Firewood

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On a November day when the sky was grey, like the side of a fish, I chunked up a fallen Box Elder tree. After checking out the chainsaw w...
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Hoof Trimming on Yearling Steer: Ox in Training

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  Before Trimming Hooves, the Medial Claws Rocked Back and Curled In I posted the following on Riding Steers Forum  on October 25th, ...

Bennett Buggy, Hoover Wagon: Ox Tows Disabled Lawn Tractor

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Towing my lawn tractor back to the shop for repairs reminded me of the Bennett Buggy and the Hoover Wagon of The Great Depression. ...
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Monday, November 29, 2010

Demonstration of Chinese Masters Painting Oxen (牛)

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If you like art and oxen, this is an interesting video of two skilled Chinese artists at work. Watch the ox appear before your eyes....
Saturday, November 27, 2010

World's Slowest Riding-Steer

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骑马黄牛 (riding ox) 張僧繇《十八宿神形圖卷 》 ﹝局部﹞，南梁 The Chinese Tortoise is believed to be the worlds slowest riding-steer (ox). It's slow and s...

How to Write "Cow" or "Ox" in Chinese

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牛 Click here  for video.  Oxherd Riding on Ox and Playing Flute Guo Xu, artist [Chinese, 1456-1526] Ink on paper 黄牛
Friday, November 26, 2010

Worlds Largest Oxen in 1930

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Worlds Largest Oxen: Mt. Katahdin and Granger Combined weight 9800 pounds (avg. 4900 pounds each) Mr. A.S. Rand, breeder  Stetson, Mai...

Monk's Ox Was Plenty Large

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Monk with Single Ox and Cart The monks at the Monastery of Our Lady of the Valley used oxen to work on their 530 acres of land in the ...
Thursday, November 25, 2010

The Durham Ox: How Big Was He?

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The calf that became known as the Durham Ox was born in North-East England in 1796. Selective breeding for desirable traits was coming in...
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Monday, November 22, 2010

How Big Will a Holstien Riding Steer (or Oxen) Get? Pretty Big!

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This is Bovine Beauty's Holstein, steer calf --- Fuzz. And this is Bovine Beauty with Fuzz at an intermediate date. As ...
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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Q: Why do Kittens Get Stuck In Trees?

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  A: Dogs Might Have Something To Do With It. Squeak the Kitten turned up missing one evening. After it got dark and he still hadn...
Saturday, November 13, 2010

Best Roller Coaste-er Ox Cart Ride (Turn u-p the volume!)

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Grandson keeps the ox cart ride animated. m-mmwhat?   (I think he lost a few teeth on that one!) "BYE MOM!...
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Grandaughter's Ox Cart Ride

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Training the steer, Scout the Ox, to cross a roadway while pulling  a very-precious passenger in the cart. Ox "...
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Scout the Ox: Steer's First Birthday

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Scout the Ox gets "Birthday" cake. He's one-year-old. And wants more cake!
Monday, November 8, 2010

Dog leads Steer - Ox

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Harry the Dog has some fun leading Scout the Ox down the drive-way. They invented this interspecies play themselves, one evening las...
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Your Walking Down a Trail and. . . .

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. . . .you hear a cowbell. . . .then a steer comes charging around the corner. What's the first thought that comes to mind? He...
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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Autumn: Like The Setting Sun

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The Pit Scout the Ox Harry the Dog Close of Day at Close of Season
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Ox Twirling Branches On Horns

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Scout the Ox likes to twirl small branches around his horns. (Including the Red Twig Dogwood foundation plantings in front of our hou...
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Ox, Dog, Pony: Three is Company

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  Take away the pony, and now you have two.  This threesome was a common sight in our pasture, however, with the help of a friend I hav...

Dog Protects Pony?

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I think that Peaches the Pony saw me coming but Harry the Dog didn't --- and he's suspicous of something unusual having entered...
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^This Side Up! ^

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  "Like This?"  Copy cat kitten.
Thursday, October 21, 2010

Cat and Dog --- Friends?

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Is the cat okay? Yes. Harry the Dog is now only allowed in the entryway --- and that --- only occasionally. Soapy, one of our two cat...
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Peaches the Pony Escapes from Horns of the Ox

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In Northwestern Minnesota our Autumn is often a very brief period between Summer and Winter --- sometimes measured in days or weeks. Today i...
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