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jen judkins
ParticipantOh, I dig the pig mover. Perfect for moving my piglets from the compost bin to their final paddock. You can move them as a group this way….so alot less stressful!
ParticipantIts funny…I have the same design in my head. Have all the wood and hardware too….to make a hoop house for the meat birds. I envisioned Reno being able to move this around every few days. Sounds like if you could move it with two people, he should be able to handle moving it across pasture, don’t ya think?
I like the bungie idea, Robert…
ParticipantI actually thought the snow…beautiful…knowing it would be gone in a day or so. But the horses definately felt the relief in the fly population…however brief it was.
Never call it ‘spring’…til its summer, lol!
Participant@mitchmaine 17594 wrote:
hey jen, it’s hard to see by reno. wondering how your plow was set up. did it have a jointer or a coulter on it? and it seems braced up well with those rods running down from your handles. nice plow. what kind is it? wiard made a pretty good walking plow. thanks, mitch
Its a competition plow, or that’s how Ted referred to it. No idea who made it. It has a coulter. When Reno was walking real slow (as in the second photo), it was super easy to plow accurately and really fun. We have to work on his speed abit more.
Participant@boulami 17596 wrote:
Did you have to stop often to give Reno a break
Well, we rested alot. I said it was for Reno’s benefit, but like Dennis, I have a touch of asthma related to spring pollen and got short of breath pretty easily:D. I would swing him round into the next furrow and we would wait there till we were both breathing normally.
ParticipantAwesome! I hope you will let me come over and check him out this weekend!
ParticipantYou europeans have a seriously weird sense of humor!:D
April 10, 2010 at 10:10 pm in reply to: A question for all you horsemen & horsewomen of the world #59314ParticipantWell, its not hard to find teamsters who know more than me so I set about being a sponge whenever I am around someone working with horses. So there are folks out there I guess I would consider ‘mentors’ but they don’t know it and probably would disagree 😉
On the other hand I have a handful of people, I ‘go to’ when I need help and they aren’t 80 years old either, lol. Most of them are on this board…so you know who you are….all worth your weight in gold. Luckily they are mostly small guys…with the exception of Carl who is a bit more pricey if you get my drift. 😮
All kidding aside, I just don’t see how you can go from zero to working a horse or a team without a mentor….of some sort. Jennifer.
ParticipantI’m really enjoying the progression as you work with him….keep it coming! BTW, nice feet!
ParticipantHe has a really nice soft eye. Beautiful. Good Luck with him! Jennifer.
Participant@Joshua Kingsley 17318 wrote:
We’ll see where she finally ends up some day;) I have never had this much growth on a “mature” horse before. Though I bought a pair of haflingers this spring with the intention of selling them after I worked them for a while and they seem to have gotten a little taller and they are about 10-12 years old. So I am at a loss as to what is going on, maby it is somthing in the water or the dirt here.
JoshuaYou live over near the champlain valley, right? Lots of minerals in that clay out there. Good for putting on bone!
ParticipantI guess I didn’t intend my four step plan to be linear….but circular;)….ever expanding our education.
Totally agreed, a happy person will learn something new on the day of their death.
ParticipantJoshua, Green Mountain Draft Horse is having a plowing bee at Shelburne Farms on the 17th. There is sure to be alot of different style plows there.
Also Ted Russell is not very far from you over in Sudbury. Best plowman I know and he loves to teach. I’ll be learning the walking plow from him on the 15th and 16th. I’ll PM his info to you. Jennifer.
ParticipantThanks for the thoughts, everyone. Pigs arrive next week. Here’s how I decided to do it:
I have sold all the pigs up front (except the one I raise for myself) for a flat rate which will include purchase of a piglet, feed and ‘board’ for 6 months and delivery to the custom butcher. The pigs will be legally owned by their consumer, so to speak :rolleyes:. I’m pretty confident that this plan falls on the proper side of the law, as long as I keep good records. Its a small operation, so I doubt we will get any media attention.
ParticipantNice, Larry! Its hard as ‘goal oriented’ as we are to let go of the ‘agenda’ and simply connect to the horse. But it feels good, doesn’t it? 😉
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