Horse ploughing Bemesten en ploegen van een akker in Merelbeke Alfons Vernaeve bewerkt zijn veld om wintergraan te zaaien Belgisch trekpaard, Cheval de trait Belge, Belgian draft horse, Belgisches Kaltblut BTbevordering, VBBT
Farming with these wonderful animals is so much quieter than mechanized farming. You hear are the commands of the farmer and the metallic sounds of the equipment, but no machines or engines. Nice!
Good job. Saving petrol and costly equipment. The man works hard and control the monsters. They are well trained. May God bless your efforts and harvest 100 fold. Amen
Very amazing animals. Extremely powerful and strong. I love the dark red flaxen chestnut's colour. I am sad about their tails though. You can see them instinctively twitching their tail stumps trying to swish flies away but they don't have any tail so they can't. Many places in Europe and North America have banned the practice of tail docking thankfully. Most farmers now simply trim the hair on the tails if they need to keep the hair out of the harness, this way the horse's tail is left intact and he can still swish flies.
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In the 90's, I worked at the State Fair in California. They brought in Budweisers Clydesdales, the biggest one was named Bud. He was enormous, but every morning before the Fair would open a little girl about 9 or 10 years old, would ride him around bareback!
My grandfather on my Dads side had one. Hung tobacco over it many a time. Horse drawn implements were about out of use except for a few that plowed tobacco or mowed really steep hollers by the time I was old enough to drive a team and they weren't gonna let no boy have the reins to their team.
4o jaar geleden werkte ik als kind (7-8 jaar ) met een Brabander, het was mijn beste vriend, en we hadden veel respect voor mekaar ! Ik woon nu al bijna 30 jaar in de US en nog steeds ben ik nog altijd vol bewondering voor de gratie die een dergelijk groot paard kan brengen! Hoop dat we nog vele vele jaren de Brabander in ere kunnen houden !
Freja Bruus for heavy working draft horses that is for their safety. I think they could leave some on for swatting flies but I know it's fir their safety so the tail doesn't get caught in anything.
You could just braid it, no need at all for cutting it for off... There are people who use them for farm work, who doesn't cut off their tails. And why is it that cariagge horses do have their tails if this was so important?
Edward Sarah Matthews That logic doesn't seem to hold water. Here in Denmark we also used heavy draft horses and most had their tails cut off, while other farm horses that did the exact same work didn't, and suffered no accidents because of it. I think it's an old tradition that got stuck. Farmers can be very conservative, regarding old customs like that.
Most people do not realize the training and patients it took to prepare these work horses to do what this farmer is doing, it is very impressive. Dedicated people who still want to keep alive the skills of their Fathers and Grandfathers are to be commended.
True. One of the things you see here is the ability of those horses to stand still and not move at all without anyone having to hold them. The work horse must learn to do that.
