The Ardennes Horse…

[J-L]

What are you doing with your Fjords Joel? I have a neighbor who wants a pair but doesn’t think they’re big enough to get anything done. I’ve told him of people using them for just about everything you’d use a big horse for. Also told him to get 3 head if he needed another he could just throw it on for more horsepower.
Good point made by Joel with regards to the farrier. You have to go quite a ways around here to find a farrier to work on draft horses. Not a problem for me because I do my own but it’s a considerable problem for others.
Simon, I went back and studied the picture of the bay horse and you are right. I don’t like the looks of his hocks and that much feather is going to spell trouble some time. He is very overweight. I really like your roan horses as far as conformation. Color means little to me but those are beautiful horses and built for work.
A question I had for you guys who own and work Ardennes, how are their feet and legs? I ask this because they look so much like the Brabant and we hear of problems with the Brabant horses with capped hocks and bone splints as well as cracked feet.

[jwayne972]

TBigLug,
Have you had any luck finding Ardennes contacts in the U.S.? I am also very interested in this breed. I have been checking the Clover Oaks website often, but have seen no updates. I have not tried to contact her yet, I was wondering if you had?
JWW

[simon lenihan]

I meant to post these earlier. [ swedish ardennes ]

[simon lenihan]

french ardennes.
simon lenihan

[TBigLug]

@jwayne972 15525 wrote:

TBigLug,
Have you had any luck finding Ardennes contacts in the U.S.? I am also very interested in this breed. I have been checking the Clover Oaks website often, but have seen no updates. I have not tried to contact her yet, I was wondering if you had?
JWW

What a strange co-incidence. I checked in today just to keep tabs on what’s going on over here and just happened to have a question to address.

Unfortunately I have not found any other Ardennes contacts in the US as of late. I had some health and financial problems lately so I’ve been keeping a low-profile but I ewill definitely keep this thread updated once I re-start my efforts this Spring.

[TBigLug]

😉 Now Simon, I know you’re partial to the Belgian and Swedish Ardennes but the more pictures of the Frenchies I see the more I like them! lol 😀

[Pete]

http://www.cloveroaksfarm.com is advertising some colts for sale.

[Joshua Kingsley]

I got an e-mail from them. The colts are 16000 each and stud fee is 2000 for AI. I guess I will be sticking with the horses I already own for a while.

[PhilG]

This is our Belgian, she is about 2200 lbs, she is much stockier than her team mate, i would like to bread her with an Ardennes, has anyone ever cross bread like that ? it might make a nice working mans budget version.

[Pete]

Jumpen they must really like those colts.

[COArdennes]

Hi to all the Ardenne fans,and a public thankyou to Simon for helping me find my Blue Roan Ardenne mare.Thankyou Joshua for letting me know of this list.
I am the owner of Clover Oaks Farm and currently have an Ardenne Stallion ,3 mares and 3 Ardenne colts.They are an amazing breed of Draft.Easy keepers and hard workers.I love the of the horses, 15 hands and weigh aprx 2000lbs.I imported them from Belguim in 2003 and then in Jan. 2006 from Belguim and Luxumbourg.I hope, in the next year or two,to import a few more Ardennes or work with others interested so we can bring in other bloodlines to promote the breed here.
I updated my website http://www.cloveroaksfarm.com just recently(although I’m still working on it)with pictures of the colts.
Respectfully

Joyce
COArdennes

[cousin jack]

Some of you may have seen Hermes in some photos on here, today we were pulling out some lengthy poles on a slope, on one occasion, driving her up the slope she stepped over a log and I asked her to turn to come back to the butt, normally she steps over the log and comes back right along side, on this occasion she took a wide turn and stopped about a yard away from the log, with me mumbling and grumbling about her being deaf and awkward, I reached across to grab the chain. The first hot stinging stab came on my forearm as I reached across,:eek: ,WASP NEST. Having been in this situation before, I shouted, “hup, up, up,” and threw the reins at her, she did’nt hang about and shot off to the right, I was even quicker and shot off left, down the bank, by this time having collected another sting on my hand and one on the head. It must have been quite funny for anyone who had seen it, a 49 year old man, high hurdling piles of brash and frantically clawing at what little hair he has left, all the time picking up speed and trying his hardest not to fall over whilst hurtling down the hill!
Anyway, collected Hermes, who did’nt have any wasps on her and thought how lucky I was to have got away with it, when I realised I had to go back and get the chain which I had dropped, damn it. Got the chain and saw the nest about a yard away, hanging from some low branches, it occured to me that she had seen or sensed those wasps and had tried to tell me by detouring around it, only I was’nt clever enough to pick up on it. 😮

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