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<blockquote data-quote="Old Man Jingles" data-source="post: 4284515" data-attributes="member: 18222"><p><span style="color: #b30000">Talking about [USER=56035]ancient![/USER]</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><a href="https://smallfarmersjournal.com/working-steers-and-oxen-on-the-small-farm/" target="_blank">Working Steers and Oxen on the Small Farm</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em>by Tim Huppe of Farmington, NH</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">The number of teams of working steers and oxen being trained and used in some fashion in North America is on the rise. The present number may be the greatest in over forty years. There are several factors contributing to this increase.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">For centuries, the skills of training steers for work and the craft of building yokes and related equipment was passed down from generation to generation. It was common for a young boy or girl to be responsible for the care and training of a team from calves to the age of working capability. Many farms trained a team each year, either for sale or for future replacement in their own draft program. The older, accomplished teamsters will say that no one ever taught them to train cattle; they just did it! Very little information was available in print until Dr. Drew Conroy put pen to paper. He has spent many hundreds of hours researching and writing. His books The Oxen Handbook and Oxen, A Teamsters Guide are the most definitive sources of information to date. His many articles in farm magazines go into greater depth on a variety of subjects. A complete novice can follow Conroy’s teamster guide and produce a good pair of working cattle.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><img src="https://smallfarmersjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/sfj_working_steers_oxen_small_farm_07.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Old Man Jingles, post: 4284515, member: 18222"] [COLOR=#b30000]Talking about [USER=56035]ancient![/USER][/COLOR] [SIZE=5][B][URL='https://smallfarmersjournal.com/working-steers-and-oxen-on-the-small-farm/']Working Steers and Oxen on the Small Farm[/URL][/B] [I]by Tim Huppe of Farmington, NH[/I] The number of teams of working steers and oxen being trained and used in some fashion in North America is on the rise. The present number may be the greatest in over forty years. There are several factors contributing to this increase. For centuries, the skills of training steers for work and the craft of building yokes and related equipment was passed down from generation to generation. It was common for a young boy or girl to be responsible for the care and training of a team from calves to the age of working capability. Many farms trained a team each year, either for sale or for future replacement in their own draft program. The older, accomplished teamsters will say that no one ever taught them to train cattle; they just did it! Very little information was available in print until Dr. Drew Conroy put pen to paper. He has spent many hundreds of hours researching and writing. His books The Oxen Handbook and Oxen, A Teamsters Guide are the most definitive sources of information to date. His many articles in farm magazines go into greater depth on a variety of subjects. A complete novice can follow Conroy’s teamster guide and produce a good pair of working cattle. [IMG]https://smallfarmersjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/sfj_working_steers_oxen_small_farm_07.jpg[/IMG] [/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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