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ParticipantIf you would want to travel to Michigan I have two McD new 4 cultivators. One is a fixer upper and the other is ready to go including the fertilizer attatchment. I would be willing to sell either one but not both.
ParticipantMy question is if organic farmers can sue conventional farmers for spray drift why is it the opposite with monsanto and their genes wandering to someone elses property?
Participantgwpokey, I agree with you 100%. Not only are they going to try and sue but the other non-gmo varieties are going to be contaminated and we won’t have a choice but to use gmo junk.
ParticipantVery interesting, but I bet Monsanto has a good reason why the studies are all wrong and that everything will be just fine. Note sarcasm. Thanks for posting.
ParticipantMy daughter rides one of my haflingers. She has to plow reign him instead of neck reigning, other than that he behaves like any other riding horse. He has a very good temperment and can be switch back and forth whenever.
ParticipantJohn, sorry to hear about your loss. I have never had to have a horse put down, but I have had to put down a few cats and dogs. You are more of a man than I because I usually take the easy way out. I have my Dad call the vet and take care of it. When I leave for work in the morning the animal is there. When I come home at night they are gone.
ParticipantI have a bunch in my front yard that will be coming down for the same reason. It is going to look bare but the house will be warm for a few years. I guess to look at the bright side the horses will learn to skid logs.
ParticipantI had mine out last weekend and let my 9 year old daughter drive them for a bit. Dad told me that is the sixth generation that he knows of that drove horses.
ParticipantI have only broke two horses in my life so I am no expert but mine did turnout well. What I used was a set of lines about 30 feet long and circles them in both directions a lot. I did not put the inside line thru the hame ring and the outside one went thru the ring and around behind thier butt. If they wanted to take off it didn’t take much to pull the inside line and stop them. It didn’t take long and they would go when told and stop when told.
ParticipantWhere are the pictures?
ParticipantSimon sounds like one of my Amish friends. He is bound and determine I am going to get rid of the haflingers and get some belgians.
ParticipantVery nice Geoff. I hope Santa it that good to me. Bob, I am starting to think that the Amish have them pretty well bought up. I know of one who is going to the other side of the state to get a Massey Harris for $700.00 plus a dollar a mile trucking. I was fortunate to find one without a fertilizer box(which the Amish don’t want).
ParticipantI don’t know how much smaller the Swedish drafts are, but I think I would give a try with the equipment you have. They may need a rest a little more often, but those of us using horses arn’t in a hurry anyway. For heavier work you may just have to add the third.
December 14, 2011 at 3:07 pm in reply to: First post / Are Halflingers the team for our farm? #69559ParticipantBilly, nice looking team. When I first started with my haflingers we hooked them to a McCormick Deering 4A all steel spreader. I had an Amish friend helping me and he is a Belgian fan and likes to tease me about my “little horses”. We started out with a small load and all went well so we kept going. Every load he wanted ot pile more on to see how much the horses could handle. On the las load it was piled so high it would hardly stay in the spreader. They didn’t appear to be working very hard. They have hauled a lot of manure since. Two of them in the grain drill is a bit much but they can go for awhile with several breaks. I don’t think you will be disappointed.
ParticipantI know it is hard parting with old friends, but if they have health issues and can’t work when you need them thta thats not good either. I am thinking of finding a new home for a couple of the haflingers because they have been nothing more than a pasture ornament for the past year. Part of me says let them go and another part says keep them. I have never heard of a North Swedish before. If they are common to the area there must be good reason. Good luck.
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