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  • in reply to: Oxen for a little friend #56232
    fabian
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    This is not a question of age.
    This year I got from my best mother cow Bella a couple of nice twin steers (Fred and George) which now both are castrated and I hope that they will make a fine team of working steers and then oxen. (pic at the end of my reply)
    for the time passing quicker, my wife made me a team of oxen from this figure:
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    she paints in order of the Pinzgauer-cattle Breeding Association in Austria other cow-models from this company in the typical Pinzgauer colour (like lineback cattle/Gloucester type) in brown and black.
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    1206602432schwarze%20herde.jpg

    in 2006 she made me a team of Pinzgauer cows as oxen in our traditional hitching with a forehead yoke (see at the end).

    since last year I drive the cows in an American type neck yoke because I have the possibility to make the yokes myself.
    because oxen grow larger than cows and I don’t have oxen sized forehead yokes, I also will drive the steers in neck yokes.
    and so I had the best christmas present ever under the chrismas tree, a nice pair of Pinzgauer oxen (at the end). My wife is very correct in details: she shortened the horns of the Longhorn Bull, bended them slightly and even cut of the balls of the Bulls (George’s more than Fred’s, because he is castrated by surgery, Fred by Burdizzo knippers, which remains more scrotum).

    My wife said that, as long I have this crazy hobby, she won’t ever run out of ideas for christmas presents.

    a second present was a pair of lined gloves which I can wear while being outside with the team in winter. since I know that Tim Harrigan wears a kind of awesome gloves when driving his team, I said to my family, while putting on the gloves: “call me Tim Harrigan.” which resulted in confused faces (my family does not know Tim Harrigan). I hope Tim Harrigan will not be offended when I try to become the “Original faked German Tim Harrigan” , including using the ends of the yoke bows as a glove holder when resting.

    happy christmas at all
    and please excuse my clumpsy English. I hope that I’m a better ox teamster than English writer

    Wolfgang

    in reply to: Harnessing the Powers of Youtube for Good #48113
    fabian
    Participant

    Thank you Bivol for always searching for new videos !
    And when I look the videos for which you set the links, it will become a “never-ending-video-looking-session”, because I always find more vids.:D

    in reply to: Wooden bow pins #56087
    fabian
    Participant

    ist it this what you want to know ? :
    http://www.iscowp.org/Ox%20Power/bow.jpg

    in reply to: looking for a homepage #52884
    fabian
    Participant

    😉 @CharlyBonifaz 12757 wrote:

    hallo Vicki,
    the “old” link doesn’t put one through to “our” moda……

    Vicki forgot the “ox” in the link 😉

    in reply to: looking for a homepage #52883
    fabian
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    @CharlyBonifaz 12691 wrote:

    Bumpus, thanks
    it was Moda’s homepage ….;)
    too easy….

    ooops. I never thought that you meant the nearest 😉

    in reply to: Brichen on an ox pair. #54788
    fabian
    Participant

    I do never drive my cart or waggon without britchen on the team

    in reply to: Willow for bows #54423
    fabian
    Participant

    do you mean yokes like these ? :
    http://www.istrianet.org/istria/fauna/cattle/boskarin-album.htm

    May be that I repeat myself again:
    I use Rattan-bows. The can easy be bent and are strong enough for the daily work. May be, that they will bent under heavy draft(like pulling contests), but if the Rattan has a good quality, they won’t break.

    in reply to: Using a pole with swiss-type harness and team #54015
    fabian
    Participant

    Anne: Does THAT work ?
    I fix the Britchen at the collar. That did work good
    Since one year I use most the Neck-yoke. So I fix the britchen at rings on the backside of the neck yoke.

    in reply to: Using a pole with swiss-type harness and team #54014
    fabian
    Participant

    Thank you Bivol for giving the romanian keywords. You made me a fine evening 😉

    in reply to: Pregnant cow "output" #54081
    fabian
    Participant

    the main reason for working with cows only the half day was not that they couldn’t do the work they should be able to do because of their weight and training but because of avoiding suffering their milk production. (hope my English is understandable 😉 )
    You can not have all: a the whole day working cow, getting every year a healthy calf AND production of a lot of milk.

    Wolfgang

    in reply to: Age of castration #53835
    fabian
    Participant

    one of my twin-steers got castrated with 2 months, the other will get castrated with 7 months in novembre (I was undecided to keep them both. Now I know that I will kepp them as a team)
    so I will see which of both will make the better ox…;)
    And I will tell you…..:)

    Wolfgang

    in reply to: cost of bull calves #53853
    fabian
    Participant

    @countryboy 10750 wrote:

    how much do bull calves cost?

    This is the kind of question we all love so much…..
    the price of which breed do you want to know ?

    in reply to: ox drovers’ meeting in Kommern, Germany #53443
    fabian
    Participant

    @bivol 10113 wrote:

    so, for the next year, i’d need to know the exact date of the the gathering for the next year, at least some weeks prior, to be able to buy a low-cost ticket!

    The date was published here: http://zugrinder.de/
    and here: http://www.kommern.lvr.de/veranstaltungen/

    But I think, we will tell you the date next year in this forum 😉

    Wolfgang

    in reply to: ox drovers’ meeting in Kommern, Germany #53442
    fabian
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    @bivol 10084 wrote:

    Thanks, Elke!

    i thought taking a plane either to Bonn, or Luxembourg flughaffen, and from then, guess taking a bus to Kommern?…
    but no matter, i have a year to prepare!:D

    cuz i’d really want to go next year…

    take a plane to Luxembourg. than go to Trier with a train, than with the train to Wittlich. there I will pick you up as our guest for 3 days (as I did with Charly Bonifaz), we will hitch my team, we will make a barbeque and on Saturday or Sunday (prefer Saturday) we drive to Kommern (distance from my home about 90 km)

    in reply to: flat or elliptical neckseat #52379
    fabian
    Participant

    @Rob FLory 8947 wrote:

    But is the neck of the ox flat?

    Rob

    Please show me the place in front of the fat pad where the ox has an elliptical dent (found this word in my dictionary :confused:) in his neck.

    Wolfgang

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