The Ardennes Horse…

John,
Simon uses them for logging. He is on this site and perhapse you could find his posts. I know that I liked the look of them as well. Good luck finding them I haven’t found any in the US so probably abroad is where you will end up looking. If you find some I would love to hear about it.
Joshua

Have you tried any of the Canadian breeders? Look up CLRC.ca to see if they carry the registration.
oxnun

http://www.cloveroaksfarm.com, joyce is the only breeder of ardennes in the us, it is a few years since joyce rang me looking for a blue roan filly, i hope i pointed her in the right direction. I along with many loggers here and across europe and scandinavia think the ardennes horse to be far superior to anything else, even horses 2 hand higher and heavier. The ardennes will work very steep ground and is very sure footed and when it comes down to level ground they hold their own wit the biggies. I am biased so it is best to give a few examples. Jim Johnstone is the only horselogger in scotland and a big clydesdale man, his clydes were 17.2hh and 900kg approx, he came and visited us on site 6 years ago and within a couple of months two ardennes were on there way to scotland, Tom nixon from ireland a good friend went and visited jim in scotland, Tom has kept and worked shires in the woods in ireland for years, shires are gone replaced by a 14.3hh ardennes mare. The list goes on. There are some very old blood lines still left in belgium, though alot less than 10 years ago, there are still a few small farmers who breed the old original type of 15hh / 16hh and use them for forestry. One particular small farmer [ rena bodart ] is one such farmer, he along with his friend philip head to the woods once the farm chores are done. They have a contract of 200 tonnes a week with a german sawmill, this is done by 2 ardennes. I am amased that they are not more popular in the us, i know ardennes were exported to the us and canada 100 years ago and i have shown pics of my horses to some eldery canadians who recognised them from when they were kids on the farm, i suppose they were thought to be too small.
simon lenihan

http://www.fezziwigfarm.com/

This farm mentions that they bought some of their early stock from Ann Harper in VT. I met Ann at our last draft horse meeting and she has a number of horses still. I can’t remember how many she said, but I remember that I was impressed.

This farm and Ann has Brabants.

Simon’s Ardennes stallions, Sultan and Prince working, and 3 year old Apollo.
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Enjoy, Carl

Now those look like draft horses to me. We’ve continued to breed tall, thin horses out of Belgians and Percherons. Too bad that we seem to be in the minority, those of us that would like some nice sized using type horses. I really hope that the Suffolk breeders don’t go on a long leg binge.
I would love to have a few of those Ardennes horses. Expensive, rare horses aren’t in my budget so I went with 1400 lb mules.