hey kids...we just bought a belgian horse yesterday...so look for the wagon training around the fern forest hood...the first mobile farm market!
For real? That's awesome!
Congrats Dude!
Wow!
Is a Belgian anything like an Ardennes?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardennes_%28horse%29
Double-wow, if so.
Perfect. Livin' like a champion. Now the rest of us need to get off our butts and grow something to put on the boat. I've got eggs and taro. Who else?
And if you think it's nothing, I'd certainly buy coconuts as chicken feed. No prob.
So what's the feed rate for such a thing, and what do they want for feed? I've been working on this one for a while and haven't got good answers. Will a horse eat sugar cane?
OOH! Horsey! I'm a horse person, so I'm very excited. Belgians are great stump pullers too. Just watch where they put their feet. My horse hurt when he got on my foot, but eyay! when a belgian stepped on my foot I was sure it was broken!
Just one? Mare, gelding, foal or what? Got a cart yet?
There's someone up this way that keeps shires, I think they are. Tall and dark with white feather feet and blazes. Not as rounded haunchy as I'd expect a draft horse to look, but drafty none the less.
My uncle used to keep a pair of dapply percherons, Duke & Duchess, for hauling cars out of the ditch during winter. They'd make enough over winter to pay their feed all year long. Saucer sized stomping feet, they had! Really gentle horses, but those feet. Yeech!
So does this horse have a name?
"kalima" ---barn name tentatively "waffle"! -til i see if she knows her name.
mare, 16.3 hands....just the one for now, no cart yet, can drag the deuce tires and trees for training.
i've trained percheron before; that's why i only have interest in draft breeds.
i generally train barefoot myself...keeps my feet quick!
don't know if she'll eat sugarcane, i suspect so... plenty grasses for the main menu.
belgians typically bigger than ardennes, but from same origins.
hopefully i'll find a suitable training teammate...much easier when they have an example to emulate besides me!
So if we see a really big saddle at a yard sale you'd be interested? ;) Most of the horse stuff we see is quarter horse sized, though. I did just run across a nice webpage which had used buggies and the prices weren't bad but unfortunately, they were located on the East coast of the mainland.
thanks...but i ride bareback and will build my own wagons.
i do want to find some oldmac boots; likely an internet find.
