new in Pennsylvania

[becorson]

Hi everyone. I’m in southern Pennsylvania and have been interested in draft animals for years (decades)… but i’m a slow learner i guess, and still feel like i hardly know enough to ask questions.
I have two “chunks” = draft cross horses, both mares, a mother and daughter acutally, that i use single to do small jobs. they also both ride and drive (carriage) but they don’t get much work. also have an ancient senior -citizen ox (19 years old this november), a middle aged ox (8 years) and have just started a new steer who was born in March 08.
i have a “day job” and can only do the draft animal stuff on weekends but it’s very important to me. l looking forward to learning lots on this forum.

[TaylorJohnson]

WEllcome to the board, I hope to get to PA some day to hunt coon with a friend out there. It sound like good country and I hear they have some of the best hard wood in the country. Taylor Johnson

[becorson]

hope you make it to Pa sometime to enjoy the forests of maple, oak, hickory, beech, wild cherry, ash, gum, etc…. also big ole sycamores, hemlock and tulip poplar….lots of raccoons, too, but where i live there’s a lot more people than raccons.

[jen judkins]

@becorson 2772 wrote:

also have an ancient senior -citizen ox (19 years old this november),

Hey, welcome, but man, 19 is not an old horse, let alone ‘ancient’, lol. I have a 27 yo still in work and he wouldn’t have it any other way. Jennifer.

[Ira]

Hi and Welcome, I’m up in the NW corner of Pa. Crawford County. I use my horses in the woods.

[becorson]

@jenjudkins 2791 wrote:

Hey, welcome, but man, 19 is not an old horse, let alone ‘ancient’, lol. I have a 27 yo still in work and he wouldn’t have it any other way. Jennifer.

no, i know 19 is not old for a horse. one of my mares is at least 19 and she is still very ready to go all day:). The ancient senior citizen at 19 is my ox, Rex. if i knew how to attach a picture of him, i would and you would see what i mean!

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