Thursday, March 24, 2011

Ox Team's Yoke Weighs Over 90 Pounds

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 Oxen's Yoke Copyright 2008 Elaine Meinel Supkis War and Peace Blog (used here with permission) Elaine Meinel Supkis holds he...
Thursday, March 17, 2011

Beautiful Yoke of Oxen at Watering Trough

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 Pair of Oxen at the Clinton Fair, 1913 Leon Hampartzoum Abdalian, photographer Some rights reserved Boston Public Library  ...

Ox Bows and Ox Yokes For Sale (circa 1890-1899)

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Ox Bows, $7.50/dozen Undated illustration from Hibbard Spencer Bartlett and Co. Catalog Chicago, Illinois The Iowa Farming Tool C...
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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