Monday, March 14, 2011

Ox and Dog Interspecies Play; Toy or Tool?

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In the first half of the video Scout the Ox and Harry the Dog play with a section of garden hose; Harry the Dog then switches to using the...
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Sunday, March 13, 2011

Interspecies Behavior: Grooming & Affection (Ox and Dog)

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Pit Bull x Newfoundland Dog Licks Ox's Nose (Horned Ayrshire Steer) Scout the Ox gets his nose washed. Though not terribly uncom...
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Friday, March 11, 2011

An Ox and a Horse a Poor Team Doth Make

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 Ox and Horse Team, Main Street, Groton, New York, USA c1920s  It takes two to fight. It also takes two to make a team. At times...
Thursday, March 10, 2011

A Horse Collar Doth Not an Ox Collar Make

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Horse Collar vs. Ox Collar There are substantial differences between horse collars and ox collars. The power of the horse is transferr...
Saturday, March 5, 2011

Pineywoods Breed of Ox Pulls With Sweatpad/Hames Combination

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Golem Kennels of rural Pittsboro, North Carolina, use a pair of ox hames padded with a sweat pad (made for use with a horse collar), for hit...

Ox Collar with Nearly Straight Hames

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   A Woman and Children in a Wagon Pulled by an Single Ox Saint-Antonin, Québec, 1918 Marius Barbeau Collection (1883-196...

Adjustable Three-Pad Collar for Oxen

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  Richard Roosenberg discusses the merits and demerits of the three-pad ox collar in Tillers International's 1997 Online Tech ...

Swiss or German Three Point Harness for Cattle

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   Three Pad Harness for Cattle from   Harnessing and Implements for Animal Traction by Paul Starkey, 1989   Paul Star...
Friday, March 4, 2011

Flexible Three Pad Collar for an Ox

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  Flexible Three Pad Collar for an Ox from Cow-harnessing in Germany, Steinmetz, 1936 World Association for Transp...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Padded Ox Collar, Ox, and Hay Cart: Murray Bay, QC, Canada

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  Ox cart, Murray Bay, QC, 1896-1900 Wm. Notman and Son © McCord Museum     Detail from Ox cart, Murray Bay, QC, 1896...
Saturday, February 26, 2011

Padded Ox Collar, Ox, and Cart: Quebec City, Canada c.1890

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  Ox cart, St. Jean Deschaillons, QC, about 1890 Gift of Mr. Stanley G. Triggs © McCord Museum      Detail from Ox ...
Friday, February 25, 2011

Single Ox Training: Gee and Haw

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This is a question from YouTube comments on my video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1YJ_7jufYA .  (Getup and Whoa with long reigns on a sta...
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Saturday, February 19, 2011

One Very Large Steer!

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Wouldn't it be fun to train this "big ox" of a steer for riding, or for pulling a giant ox cart! See photos and read about h...
Saturday, February 12, 2011

So Precious! Oxen Team and Young Girl

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 Oxen and Girl Photo from JimElong's photobucket album titled: Rendezvous

Grandkids Wild Ox-Cart Ride

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Saturday, February 5, 2011

Traveling 1st Class in Northwestern Minnesota (via Ox Cart)

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Single Ayrshire Ox Pulling Ox Cart with Wooden Ox Yoke With all the tempting vegetation in the roadside ditches covered with snow, ...
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Thursday, February 3, 2011

Snapshots; Haul'n Wood with an Ox

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Hauling Firewood with an Ox
Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Turning the Ox Yoke

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20/20 Hindsight 1. When walking backwards make sure you have a clear path so you don't stumble. 2. Avoid hitching to anything so hi...

Civil War Era Currycomb

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A Currycomb Patented by Sarah Jane Wheeler, 1861 "Included in the New Britain Industrial Museum collection is a curry comb reco...

Currying Favor with the Ox

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Snow, ice, mud or manure in the coat of the ox robs the fur of its insulating value.  The currycomb is the ideal tool to keep the ox'...
Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Why Is It Called a Currycomb?

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 Currycomb One of my earliest memories of livestock was watching our landlords daughter, Roxy,  putting neat squiggles on the si...
Saturday, January 29, 2011

Did you know?

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 On October 22, 2009 Hu Jintao, President of the People’s Republic of China, gave U.S. President Barack Obama a porcelain sculpture of fi...
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Monday, January 24, 2011

Watering the Ox: How Much Water Will a Yearling Steer Drink?

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My online blogger friend Chuck (for whom oxen hold spiritual significance,) signs off on his weekly blog-cast Friday Night Oxen  with ...
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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Minnesota Winter: An Ox in a Snowstorm

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 Scout the Ox, an Ayrshire Steer with Horns Minnesota Winter Snowstorm "  If I might say...."  Scout the Ox, ...
Saturday, January 22, 2011

Leading the Single Ox

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Leading the Single Ox: Advantages and Disadvantages The single ox is more prone to go astray due to distraction than a team of oxen. L...
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Ox Checks Out Camera

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Curious as a cow, Scout the Ox investigates the stationary camera. In hindsight, the results were predictable.
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Saturday, January 8, 2011

Making Firewood With an OX and a Dog: Day 2

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Scout the Ox started easily on this cold and windy day. No block-heaters or jumper cables to deal with. We got out several small loa...
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Haltering and Hitching the Ox: A Two Act Play

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I set everything up for an unflawed demonstration of haltering and hitching the ox to a sled , but everything didn't exactl...
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Scout the Ox: Can You Come Out and Play Now?

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  Scout the Ox managed to pop the latch on the pasture gate. He didn't wander away, but rather, came to our front door to see what wa...
Friday, December 31, 2010

Ox on a Stick: Whoa. Get-up.

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At just over a year Scout the Ox is doing well with Get-up and Whoa. But take a look (video below) at this team of three-year old...
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Thursday, December 30, 2010

Winter Vignette: A Man an Ox and a Dog

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Crossing a snowy meadow with a dog, and an ox pulling a sled.

Winter Vignette: Ox-Breath at Sunset

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Ox-breath, one of the wonderful touches of Winter!
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

An Outing on a Winter Evening Pays Big Dividends for the Dog

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  Harry the Dog discovers a frozen deer hide left behind by deer-hunters.   Scout the Ox smells something of interest on the ...