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Do you have any pictures of these young Mules? Just curious to see what they look like

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Did you buy anything, I heard this morning things were going real high. I’m heading down for the horses tomorrow right after lunch. Can’t wait, I don’t plan on buying anything but anytime you get to go and see that many draft horses in one place its a good day.

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If you can find a good Amish Farrier, they’re worth their weight in gold. Maybe its just me but it seems like the Amish Farriers I’ve dealt with are the only farriers that haven’t given me a headache. Before a few years ago when I started using Levi Yoder in Canton MN, every farrier appointment started off with me calling the farrier, and calling and calling and calling and then maybe if I’m lucky I’ll hear back from him. Then I’ll hear something about how he’s to busy right now or thats not enough horses for him to travel that far for (six head oughta be enough) either that or it’ll be that I never hear back from him ever. Then if I do get him to come he’s late, doesn’t have the right shoes, doesn’t want to shoe that horse because he’s a little touchy…….. and on top of that he wants to charge me a hundred plus dollars a head to shoe. OR I can make an appointment via a letter which gets confirmed with a phone call take my horses and mules down to Levis, he shoes everything i bring and never complains once and all this for 25 dollars a head plus the cost of shoes. I’ve been using him for four years now and never had a thrown shoe, never had a lameness issue, I guess maybe I’ve just had bad luck with the regular farriers out there but I have no intentions of switching back anytime soon. and just for the record I’ve never written a shoer a bad check or had a horse or mule that was mean to shoe. I understand there are plenty of bad amish farriers out there I think this is due to the fact that a lot of Amishmen shoe horses with out actually being trained in the craft, I have a lot of faith in the farrier I use, he shoes horses all day everyday six days a week and a lot of his customers are other Amish who count on their horses for transportation, if there’s one guy that oughta know what he’s doing it would be Levi.

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Yes, Tuesday and Wednesday are the equipment days. They have several auctioneers going at once sometimes those days so you really need to pay attention to what you want and which auctioneer will be selling it when. oh and Come on everybody needs another horse….. and holes in your head aren’t near as bad as everybody makes them out to be. 🙂

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If rolling was bad for them all mules would be dead seeing as how they feel it necessary to “waller” anytime they: get out of there harness, anytime they walk out of the barn, anytime they see another horse/mule rolling, anytime they find a good spot, anytime its raining, anytime, anytime, anytime…….. Lets just leave it at rolling is definitely normal as long as its not involved with colic, if they’re acting normal let them roll. As far as colic goes I’ve always been told not to let them roll, perhaps Carl is right though and they can untwist their gut?

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do you stay the whole week i don’t think i’ll make it down till thursday or friday

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Nice to have an update, to bad you didn’t live closer to IA, the sale they have their in Waverly is a great place to find a team. Just was kind of chuckling at the fact your a “senior memeber” I’m only 9 years older than you and remember a lot of the same experiences your having, its kind of fun to follow.

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I take mine to an Amish Farrier and he charges 25.00 dollars a head for shoeing and 12.50 for trimming. His shoeing cost does not include the cost of shoes but I believe drill tecs run about 12 bucks for 4 shoes so I can take the team down and get out of their easily for under a hundred dollars. I know some people have reservations about the amish. I’ve been lucky I found this guy and have been 110% satisfied with price and quality of work. He doesn’t use a shoeing stock for mine which I like because they don’t need one. Also he’s fast, I can bring all 6 down and be out of there in two hours or less. Never lost a shoe yet. I’m not trying to brag or boast but I’m really lucky to have found this farrier. Just an FYI in case you’re wondering the 6 consists of two light mules, one draft mule, one draft cross a saddle horse and a mini

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Charlie I’ve looked into that one before but I don’t quite understand the cost to go on the ride. In one place I think it says that it is like 25 dollars a day which seems like it would get expensive for a month long ride? Can you shed any light on this?

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Got the mules out today. Went snow/mud sleigh riding was a lot of fun, never even got stuck 🙂 Some of the bare ground really made them work too which was good as they had some energy saved up. I’m in the process of building a new wagon and am hoping the snow keeps melting so I can get it out and go for a ride.

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and when you guys get done with them I’d be interested in some

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I think I’m in love, I’ll be sure to add that to my wish list. Anybody wanna buy one for me?

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I dug out the sled today with a tractor and got out the tape measure, from the bottom of my runner to the grass was 4 ft 9in.

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Neither of them are shod I don’t really do enough with them in the winter to were I would need shoes. As far as there heads being too close together they seem to like to drive with their heads close together there’s rarely any tension on the inside lines. This is my first team of mules before I had a team of belgians and then a team of paint draft crosses. Then after I had sold those I was looking for a new team and these came up for sale while I was on a wagon train and I thought what the hell we’ll give mules a try, so far I’ve enjoyed them. I agree with them being more like a dog. I had really only thought that snow was about a foot and a half deep but right where the sled is sitting when it got stuck its about four foot

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I agree with Donn, I personally don’t check anything up and so don’t have a crupper on any harness right now. I did however have a pair of belgians whose britchen would never stay in place and I used the crupper to fix that problem.

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