2005年8月14日 · Oxen, a Teamsters Guide by Drew Conroy. Also get The Pride and Joy of Working Cattle by Ray Ludwig. Mr. Ludwigs book has excellent in-depth instruction and advice on how to train young bull calves into a team of oxen, how to carve a yoke and build an ox cart. Dr.

2022年8月6日 · First you teach them to stand tied, then you teach them to lead. Then you yoke them to a cart or a dray, then you beat them until they do what you want. I have seen Oxen trained in Central America, South America, and Africa. They all use the same system.

2011年3月2日 · I have trained a couple of teams of oxen, Jersey, Holstein. My best team was Devon cross several years ago . Jersey oxen will work a single plow good and pull small logs, pull a ground slide ect. The Jersey team are a little stubborn and form my experience take a little longer to make a good team.

2004年1月5日 · As far as oxen go I have some experience with that. I used to work a team of Devon/Holstien crosses and they were terriffic. A good resource to have before you train a team in "Oxen, A teamsters Guide" by Drew Conroy. It has just about everything you need to know about oxen and training them.

2013年10月17日 · Well I decided not to do the yoke. I put a harness on her and have her on a 20 ft run. I have moved her to a Little Tykes Cabin for a house and it is far enough away from anything that she will not get tangled, but still in the barn yard with the other animals. I tried putting the other two goats in with her tonight, but they were being mean to ...

2008年10月4日 · Why Yoke Hogs? Jump to Latest 3.2K views 5 replies 5 participants last post by Ronney Oct 7, 2008

2011年10月18日 · In an ideal world, I'd also like to be able to use the breed as good oxen. At first glance, it sounds like the Florida Cracker or Pineywoods breeds are a reasonably good fit, and I'd feel like I was doing a good thing for an almost extinct breed.

2010年4月24日 · get your hands on a calcrate cattle bander. we have used sawzall, hacksaw, horn cutters, and every other thing we could find--all with the same results, blood everywhere and even lost some due to cutting to deep. we tried that bander and will never go back, does take a while for the horns to fall off and the cows are really are mad for a while--must hurt a little.

2011年11月5日 · Movies of the Westward pioneers weren't all that accurate. It showed husband, wife and kids riding in wagons. Not so. Everyone who could walked to reduce the load on the horses, mules or oxen. Women would pick up buffalo …

2004年2月17日 · There were split rail fences here when we bought the place, and we found it to be most unsatisfactory. Calves slipped through it, and the they all found it great fun to play with and wrecked it by butting and doing mock battle with it, everyone leaned on it and thought it was made just to scratch that elusive itch, and of course by trying to reach the greener grass on the …