Draft Horses and Mules - Harnessing Equine Power for Farm & Show

Informationen zum Autor Gail Damerow has written extensively on raising chickens and other livestock! growing fruits and vegetables! and related rural know-how in more than a dozen books! including the best-selling Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens ! The Chicken Encyclopedia ! The Chicken Health Handbook ! and Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks . Damerow is a contributor to Chickens and Hobby Farms magazines and a regular blogger for Cackle Hatchery. She lives in Tennessee with her husband! where they operate a family farm with poultry and dairy goats! a sizable garden! and a small orchard. Visit her online at gaildamerow.com.   Alina Rice observed! worked! and trained draft horses while growing up on a small southern farm where her family made hay and cultivated the land with two Belgian teams. Klappentext A team of two draft horses can cultivate several acres of land in a single day! enriching the soil as they work. This book shows readers how to choose an ideal team! feed and house them! maintain their health! ensure effective equine-human communication! select and use equipment properly! and employ the animals in a variety of tasks. Zusammenfassung Hardworking and intelligent! draft horses and mules provide clean-energy power for an impressive array of tasks. Bringing strength and endurance to every job! from cultivating farmland and hauling logs to giving long quiet rides through the countryside! these animals love to work. In this illustrated guide! Gail Damerow and Anita Rice provide all the information you need in order to select! train! feed! care for! and work with your own team of draft horses or mules.

Product details

• Authors: Gail Damerow, Gail/ Rice Damerow, Alina Rice
• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.10.2008
• EAN: 9781603420815
• ISBN: 978-1-60342-081-5
• No. of pages: 261
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 273 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Storey's Working Animals; Storey's Working Animals
• Subject: Guides > Nature