Bowers, S.

Training The Driving Horse shows how Steve Bowers trains horses to be driven for both single and team use. By starting at the start, showing how to teach a horse to be led so that the human is seen as a leader, and progressing gently and in logical sequences, the horse learns to be respectful and responsive to his trainer. This type of training uniformly produces calm and willing horses that are a pleasure to drive. No matter the ultimate driving purpose you have for your horse, he'll be off to a great start by using the approach shown here.

DVD        Added 2008
Category:  Draft Horses

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Damerow, Gail and Rice, Alina

Meet the original horse power! Prized for their great endurance, splendid disposition, willingness to work, impressive stature, and versatility, draft horses and mules are making a strong comeback. Today, an estimated 5 to 10 percent of America's 3.5 million horses are draft breeds. Draft Horses and Mules, by Gail Damerow and Alina Rice, distills the great tradition of these impressive animals into a definitive guide. Designed for new or intermediate owners, the book shows readers how to choose an ideal team, feed and house them, maintain their health, ensure effective equine–human communication, select and use equipment properly, and employ the animals in a variety of agricultural, logging, and demonstration tasks. Draft Horses and Mules is enhanced with color photos, numerous illustrations, and profiles of real-life individuals who work with draft horses and mules. The fresh design makes the information leap off the page and ensures that the book is as fun to read as it is informative.

Paper Back    272 pgs.    Added 2008
Category:  Draft Horses

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Smith, Donna Campbell

Before trucks and tractors, draft horses performed the heavy work of pulling wagons, plowing fields, and hauling logs. But the internal combustion engine did not entirely replace these animals; they are still used in many parts of the country for agricultural and other jobs. The Book of Draft Horses is a celebration of these gentle giants, as well as a practical handbook on breeding, care, training, competition, and working horses. Includes 60 black-and-white photographs that compliment the text by showing the various breeds at work and at play.

Hard Cover    148 pgs.    Added 2008
Category:  Draft Horses

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Bowers, S.

In the early twentieth century, the proliferation of farm tractors dramatically eased the burden on Americas farmers. It seemed the day of the horse-drawn plough was well over. And yet today, with a new generation working smaller spreads for reasons of necessity, economics, or personal conviction, draft horses are going back to work in a big way, and proving their worth once more. This book, by a widely respected trainer of working horses, aims to show those new to farming with horses or those simply in need of a brush-up everything they need to make the old ways work like new. With a wealth of color illustrations and clear, to-the-point prose, Farming with Horses reviews the different types of harness and collar, explains how to select a work horse and how to hitch a horse to an implement, and fully describes lateral and longitudinal alignment, rein grips, and every other aspect of farming with horses.

Paper Back    160 pgs.    Added 2008
Category:  Draft Horses

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Fox, Charles Philip

332 historic photographs, along with Charles Philip Foxs interesting text, tell the story of how horses and mules did everything at the turn of the century. Reminiscing with these nostalgic photographs and prints will make any horseman or horsewoman appreciate the significance of the workhorse in the development of America.

Hard Cover    250 pgs.    Added 2008
Category:  Draft Horses

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Smith, D. J.

At the beginning of the eighteenth century the Agricultural Revolution revolutionized farming. Centuries-old methods were discarded and widespread improvements were made. One of the most notable changes was the replacement of draught oxen with the more versatile special heavy breeds of horses. The Victorian ingenuity of the Industrial Revolution produced an enormous range of horse-drawn agricultural machinery. Fields had been ploughed by draught animals for centuries, but suddenly new horse-drawn machinery included not just ploughs, but grubbers, cultivators, harrows, rollers, drills, reapers, binders, root lifters, manure spreaders and rakes. This book describes and illustrates these machines, the horses and their harness, inventors and manufacturers and lists the places where the machines can be seen today.

Paper Back    96 pgs.    Added 2008
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Zeuner, D.

Heavy horses played a pivotal role in the development of western economies, toiling in mines and quarries, factories and docks, alongside canals and railways and on farms. But, following the introduction of motorized machinery their number plummeted and some breeds came close to extinction in the 1950s. Interest has been revived and today Shires, Clydesdales, Suffolks and British Percherons attract special attention wherever they are seen, their strength, endurance and magnificence ensuring them a place in the modern world. This new edition examines the various breeds of heavy horse and their qualities, their historical role, the industry that built up around them and their modern revival, bringing the story up to date and celebrating the work of those whose determination has ensured that heavy horses have a bright future.

Paper Back    48 pgs.    Added 2008
Category:  Draft Horses

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Moore, S.



Video Tape    90 min.    Added 2005
Category:  Draft Horses

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Moore, S.

Come on along on our guided tour of the 10th anniversary of this unique horse-farming implement trade show held in Mt. Hope, Ohio, with single horses to 12 head hitched to the latest innovations for horse powered farmers. Included are forecarts galore, plenty of manure spreaders, tillage tools of all kinds, planters and cultivators, equipment for produce growers, hay making machinery from mowers to tedders to bale movers and wrappers, logging carts and arches, a log transporter and lots more. Nowhere else in the world can you review so many pieces of newly manufactured horse machinery in one place, not to mention nearly all the draft breeds in action - American Belgians, Brabant Belgians, Clydesdales, draft mules, Halfingers, Hackney ponies, Morgans, oxen, Norwegian Fjords, Percherons, Shires and Spotted Drafts. So hitch yourself to your favorite easy chair and join us in two days worth of actions, packed into this videotape for your viewing pleasure.

DVD    120 min.    Added 2005
Category:  Draft Horses

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Russell



Hard Back        Added 2004
Category:  Draft Horses

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Wildenstein, M.

Are draft horses different from other horses? In many ways they are. This manual for draft horse owners comprehensively covers draft horse basics, monitoring draft horse health, things that can go wrong and what to do if they do. This manual for draft horses covers. How to keep your draft horse safe. The special dietary needs of heavy horses. How to maintain a sound heavy horse hoof. How to interpret the health clues your horses give you. The particular disorders that affect the draft horses. How to analyze your horses movements for soundness. The problems in breeding heavy horses. How to start a draft foal to ensure its happy healthy life and more.

Paper Back    228 pgs.    Added 2001
Category:  Draft Horses

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Hart, E.

The heavy horse, whether shown singly or harnessed in a tea of six, is the most popular exhibit on the modern show scene. In this book, Edward Hart condenses the experiences of leading exhibitors in the art of training, preparing and exhibiting heavy horses and in the choice, preparation and maintenance of vehicles and harness. Showing The Horse will add enormously to the sheer pleasure of exhibitor and spectator alike. It will be an enthralling read for both the expert and the newcomer to the world of the heavy horse.

Hard Cover    352 pgs.    Added 2001
Category:  Draft Horses

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Mischla, R.

Robert Mischka lives on a small farm near Whitewater, Wisconsin. He started showing horses in 1972, in 1982 he showed two home raised mares, Karisma and Brunhilda to first in the Mare Team class at the National Percheron Show, Minnesota State Fair and Michigan Great Lakes International. They repeated this success with the same two mares at Ohio and Minnesota in 1983.

Hard Cover    110 pgs.    Added 2000
Category:  Draft Horses

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Moore, Sam

This videotape shares the demonstrations witnessed by thousands of people who come from as far away as Switzerland and Australia, and from all over the United States and Canada, to learn about the latest in animal-powered implements—forecarts, manure spreaders, plows, tillage tools, sprayers, cultivators, planters, haying equipment, logging carts—worked by a variety of hitches from a single Haflinger to Percherons 12-up.

Video Tape    90 min.    Added 2000
Category:  Draft Horses

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Veevers, T.

A portrait of rural life in picturesque southern Ontario on horse farms ranging from the traditional Mennonite to modern organic. Presenter Terry Veevers illustrates his conviction that horses can truly play a part in the modern agricultural era. Over a year the processes of plowing, hay making, maple syrup production and organic cultivation are demonstrated, culminating in a winter sleigh ride. Combining the majestic power of Canadian, Belgian and Suffolk horses with progressive modern machinery, this video breathes new life into traditional farming whilst retaining the simple beauty of horses working in harness.

Video Tape    50 min.    Added 2000
Category:  Draft Horses

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Weber And Jepsen



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Category:  Draft Horses

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Lessiter, F.



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Mischka, R.

Draft Horse Images organized into twelve photo essays. There are stories about the 1992 National Belgian Show, the Belgian Championship II Show, the Live Oak Show, and the Milwaukee Circus Parade. Other stories cover the Budweiser and the Reminisce Hitches, the Nevada City (California) Carriage Company, Old Time Horse Logging, Horse pulling in the midwest, farming with horses, and Work and Field Days.

Paper Back    160 pgs.    
Category:  Draft Horses

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Fox, C.P.

332 historic photographs, along with Charles Philip Foxs interesting text, tell the story of how horses and mules did everything at the turn of the century. Reminiscing with these nostalgic photographs and prints will make any horseman or horsewoman appreciate the significance of the workhorse in the development of America.

Hard Cover    250 pgs.    
Category:  Draft Horses

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Robert A. Mischka

Draft horses and mules are alive and doing very well. After falling to near extinction levels in the 1940s they have now grown in numbers and popularity to become firmly established as a source of power on farms, as an alternative to heavy machinery in logging operations, and as a part of equine recreation industry. This book is a celebration of this renewed interest in draft horses and mules Draft Horses Today starts off with a discussion of the various breeds found in the United States. It then covers the way in which a newcomer might find a horse, where equipment and machinery can be found, and how to find people to train the draft horses. These topics are treated with common sense and the first-hand knowledge that comes from the authors own experience. Newcomers to the draft horse scene will find these early chapters interesting and useful.

Hard Cover    176 pgs.    
Category:  Draft Horses

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