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- February 3, 2009 at 3:19 am #48117
BIGOX
ParticipantA video of oxen plowing at a historical farm. Also a great example of peoples willingness to post ridiculous comments about things they obviously know nothing about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEyO59Okags
As of November last year, the record for the tallest oxen is Fiorino, an Italian chianina ox who measured 6 ft 8 in to the withers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQH72k1t-us&feature=related
Thatsa biga boya!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA4vQyRPwEg&NR=1
I don’t think that was his first furrow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH5eWIsXKNk&feature=related
Very hansom single plowing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA3FA26LonM&feature=related
A team of the same.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RICq80uRcFc&feature=channel
4-TEAM HITCH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W39_rtKFGS4&feature=related
How not to use your ox!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlKYmy1GGWk&feature=related
Don’t do this either!
http://www.indiavideo.org/kerala/life/village/anandappalli-maramadi-bull-race-844.php
Italian oxen
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8756987402728943017&ei=c6qHSabyJ4H0-wHugunsCw&q=oxen&hl=en
HAY TEDDING WITH THE OXEN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miPB8ltvABY
My favorite!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4k5hcndldI
A plug for MODA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMIwjnahbT8
The future of NASCAR??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BMoVulIfSc
Rare Antique Transport
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puxUMdnwFeU
Shoes
February 3, 2009 at 7:09 pm #48100CharlyBonifaz
MemberBIGOX,
quite a collection ……here’s the world’s second tallest bovine:
http://www.ferneanimalsanctuary.org/index.php?page=chillinaturally I like your last video best 😀
it was taken during last year’s oxdrovers/bullockies gathering in Germany and this year’s is actually next weekend; so if you make it to Dresden’s airport by Saturday, I could pick you up and take you along……..;)
elkeFebruary 4, 2009 at 5:22 am #48118ParticipantThat was just a couple of hours of practicing the art of google fu.
Are you the one putting the shoes on?
I would love to take you up on your offer but I don’t think I could get a passport in time among other problems.
Here are a few more good ones.
Aussie Bullock Team
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1CKlnTnpSI
Tomerong Bullock Team
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv0dXmW5Sbc&feature=related
Bullock Man
Bullocky
Timbertown
February 10, 2009 at 11:20 pm #48066April 13, 2009 at 7:26 pm #48067bivol
ParticipantHi!
this is a trailer for a south-korean documentary movie called Old Companion.
old companion is a story about an elderly couple who lives in countryside, and their ox. all three main characters are memorable, the complaining, but good, wife, her workoholic husband, and their old ox.the story shows their lives and how the old man deals with the nearing death of his old ox, who has cancer and only a year to live.
this documentary was a hit in korea, now a modern and urban country, with such traditional farming in decline, with over a million people who watched it in korea alone.
i’d sure want to watch it, and if someone wants to see a calm, yet touching story about everyday people, and hasn’t heard of this movie, this is a heads-up!
May 6, 2009 at 12:07 am #48068September 22, 2009 at 8:52 pm #48069Participanthi!
recently i’ve found some good vids on youtube, so i would like to share them with you all!
a little off record start
first is a video of a horse plowing in china. it is a little, stout horse pulling a traditional homemade mouldboard plow.
traditional chinese plows really are something! although the soil is heavy, and only a single small horse is pulling, you can clearly see soil cut like butter and almost bursting out of furrow! the horse DOES look overloaded but it’s going, and it also shows how much power a single small horse can have.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ek-FWVgAGAthe main event
second video is a brazilian single ox cart.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-N3d0Sluskthis one shows an ox wagon in south america. this is unique cause the wagon is likely a german design, and the neck yoke of portugese design, as opposed by the spanish traditions of two wheeled carts and head yoke.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFh8QzxbuTg&feature=relatedalso brazil. this one shows a smart ox. this ox knows how to harness himself to a cart!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gEvEMXeWboanimal 4X4 at its best!
the ox wagon competition in cross-country abillity! it is well known that oxen have a good tractiojn on muddy roads, but for all who (like me) haven’t seen them in action yet,this is an educational as well as entertaining vid!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYr7wME08ZA&feature=fvwthis is a funny video of a clumsy guy who has a run down horse cart, and it is pimped up by lightning (i think by the hand of God), like people in US pimp cars! A PIMPED HORSE CART!:eek::D:cool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxEbXOOQhFwmy kind of beach buggy!
has everything one needs: a nice view, shade, music, AND eko-power!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEl4CbEdAq8&feature=relatedindia
anyone who thinks cattle are restricted to plodding oxen, i hope this vid will change her/his mind.this one shows an indian bullock cart with a single ox trotting at admirable speed on a hot day! i’d prefer this ox to any horse for road work!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugi1mTSaBWg&feature=related
india has a lot to offer to world in section of road work oxen.
this shows that cattle are, with selection, capable of being as fast as horses, and, i presume, being tougher.and here is a turbo ox! i don’t know how fast a single horse cart goes, but i think this ox goes like a ferrari!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgJ0lb4nqs0&feature=related
well, that’s it for now! i hope you enjoyed!
September 23, 2009 at 8:21 am #48119Nat(wasIxy)
Participantoooooh my connection is too slow! can’t wait to see though, I think you’re 100% right about breeding and selection – here we only breed for beef and/or milk and then moan about oxen being slow. They never used to be; I think it was devons that were reputed to trot in harness just as horses do? I would love to breed for speed, but it’d take a lot of money that I don’t have right now!
September 23, 2009 at 12:58 pm #48120ParticipantI watched! fabulous – I LOVED the ox that put his own cart on – that was a seriously skillful move with the horns…only an ox could pull it off 😉
September 23, 2009 at 7:22 pm #48070Participantyep!;)
i wonder how they tought him that…
i’d love to get one of those indian running oxen, they’re turbo!
i hear they are nervous, but it’s the same with hot-blooded horses.
only they probably don’t need grain.September 24, 2009 at 8:23 am #48121ParticipantWe don’t have zebus or brahmans or anything like that here, but we do have a small number of mini zebus, and I have dexters so I’m wondering if over time I could scale them up…?
September 24, 2009 at 8:42 am #48122Participantwoah…scrap that idea – two week old bull calf: £500!
September 24, 2009 at 12:39 pm #48071Participant@Ixy 11364 wrote:
We don’t have zebus or brahmans or anything like that here, but we do have a small number of mini zebus, and I have dexters so I’m wondering if over time I could scale them up…?
india has draft oxen of different temperaments and body types to suit different needs: big heavy oxen for ploughing, and medium sized hot-tempered breeds for road work.
the zebu breeds imported were imported for their meat, so they were heavy plow breeds, not the road work ones.maybe you could “toon up” the dexters, so to say, but i don’t know what you’d get. it definitelly wouldn’t work in a single generation.
a good road ox needs, in my oppinion, to be at least medium in size, long legged, not heavy boned and rugged, but slender and athletic. it should also have an at least moderately alert temperament.
so my best choice would be 2/3 jersey 1/3 holstein. they can be found and bought relatively easy, being diary breeds.
jerseyXholstein is a fine cross. cross it again with j. and you will add more alert temperament, fine bone, and a lighter frame, though still larger and stronger than jersey.
ofcourse, it would need testing, but i think it would be good.marko
September 24, 2009 at 12:50 pm #48056Carl Russell
ModeratorJust moved this thread into the Web-links category, seeing as there are so many links posted here.
Carl
September 28, 2009 at 1:54 pm #48123Participant@bivol 11367 wrote:
india has draft oxen of different temperaments and body types to suit different needs: big heavy oxen for ploughing, and medium sized hot-tempered breeds for road work.
the zebu breeds imported were imported for their meat, so they were heavy plow breeds, not the road work ones.maybe you could “toon up” the dexters, so to say, but i don’t know what you’d get. it definitelly wouldn’t work in a single generation.
a good road ox needs, in my oppinion, to be at least medium in size, long legged, not heavy boned and rugged, but slender and athletic. it should also have an at least moderately alert temperament.
so my best choice would be 2/3 jersey 1/3 holstein. they can be found and bought relatively easy, being diary breeds.
jerseyXholstein is a fine cross. cross it again with j. and you will add more alert temperament, fine bone, and a lighter frame, though still larger and stronger than jersey.
ofcourse, it would need testing, but i think it would be good.marko
I meant to get a mini zebu, cross with the dexter and gradually (over many generations) scale up the size to get a medium sized animal. But given the cost of the minis that ain’t happening anytime soon.
plan b was the brahman – they are heavy, but at least bos. indicus! However, I’ve just discovered that there aren’t any brahman bulls approved for semen export to the UK 🙁
plan c would be start breeding something here. Not sure I agree about the holsteins! They are big, which isn’t good for athleticism, and they’re not known for their sound bodies, legs and longevity!! Pretty much the opposite of what you want. I’d rather go for ayrshire or brown swiss.
Our dexters are too small to be of much use, and I don’t relish the thought of trying to work them as they are a little bit ‘spicy’ – but that spicyness could potentially be harnessed for good! We have a stunning red steer who’d be perfect for work I think, but he’s good an attitude problem 🙁 I may ask if i could breed his mother to a brown swiss lol – AI!!!!! 😀
edited to add: I think texas longhorns have such potential! There are a handful of bulls approved for semen export to the UK apparently…just a case of saving up for the freight!!!
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