Team

[CattleAnnie]

Bez, the discussion about teams under the tractor brand posting made me reminince about a team of ours.

Babe was a PerchX mare and Prince was a little Belgian gelding. Just nice sized for choring at 16hh. Not as pretty as the team of mares I've got now, but miss those two old farts all the same. Prince had terrible straight shoulders and ended up too sore to chore with, and no use for Babe without her mate, so sent them both to town a few years back.


Pictures are a couple that Dad took one day when he stopped by. Sort of a before and after sequence. Oh, and before any one asks, my orange toque is NOT for sale. ;-)

Take care.

 

[Bez]

It was a cool day and you were working them from the looks of the pics.

I see you and wife shop for sexy clothes at the same place. Women in close fitting farm clothes. :lol:

European cut with just a dash of cling - yet only slightly revealing.
:shock:

Mmmm ........ Mmmm .....

I always say watch what you wear when you get your pic taken, it tends to make the mind wander into thoughts of ............ Oops gotta get my mind back on the matters at hand.

Teams are so old fashioned and yet are so darned handy.

Take care,

Bez

 

[dun]

Does anyone know if they still use teams to winter feed the elk in Jakcson Hole? Saw it once many years ago, kind of neat.

dun

 

[Jake]

Does anyone know if they still use teams to winter feed the elk in Jakcson Hole? Saw it once many years ago, kind of neat.

dun

last I knew they still do. The do all their tours and whatnot with teams also.

 

[dun]

Wasn't sure. It was 25 years ago or more when I was there. Glad to see "progress" hasn't reared it's ugly head into that anyway.

dun

 

[ollie]

It was a cool day and you were working them from the looks of the pics.

I see you and wife shop for sexy clothes at the same place. Women in close fitting farm clothes. :lol:

European cut with just a dash of cling - yet only slightly revealing.
:shock:

Mmmm ........ Mmmm .....

I always say watch what you wear when you get your pic taken, it tends to make the mind wander into thoughts of ............ Oops gotta get my mind back on the matters at hand.

Teams are so old fashioned and yet are so darned handy.

Take care,

Bez

You should get paid for that Bez.

 

[bwranch]

Dun, I asked the other half, she's from Jackson, "back before the Californian's took over" according to her. She and her mom used to help with the feeding. Short answer is she didn't know whether they still use the teams or not, but will ask her Mom next chance she gets. Let you know if I get an answer. I'm pretty sure that they still use teams to feed down in the Wind River area around Pinedale. Got a friend down there who does some of the feeding but again, I'll have to ask him to be certain. We've got a team of grey Percheron mules the Wyominger's have been trying to buy off of us. Don't use em for much but dang, it's cool when we do.

 

[Arnold Ziffle]

Annie -- I'm sitting here in my cozy office, darn near shivering like crazy just from looking at that picture! :lol:

 

[sidney411]

Annie, I have never actually seen a team of horses used for anything except show. What do you do with them?

 

[bwranch]

They do still feed the elk in Jackson with teams. Why, you can even ride along for a fee! My understanding is that this may be the last year for feeding the elk, or at least halting the feeding is being considered. That should be interesting. Has anybody heard of brucellosis being transmitted from elk to cattle? Wyoming has had an outbreak of Brucellosis and some of the locals were blaming it on the elk "breeding" the cows at the feed grounds??? Just wondering.

 

[dun]

They do still feed the elk in Jackson with teams. Why, you can even ride along for a fee! My understanding is that this may be the last year for feeding the elk, or at least halting the feeding is being considered. That should be interesting. Has anybody heard of brucellosis being transmitted from elk to cattle? Wyoming has had an outbreak of Brucellosis and some of the locals were blaming it on the elk "breeding" the cows at the feed grounds??? Just wondering.

The elk to cattle bangs subject comes up every couple of years, so does the feeding or stopping feeding issue. Seems like the bangs deal was a hot button topic when I visited there, I'm guessing, somewhere btween 1978 and 1980.

dun

 

[CattleAnnie]

Sidney, we use them to feed the cows. Have both a wagon and a sled that they can be hooked up to, depending on the ground condition (frozen or muddy). Attach a yoke to a round bale, and winch it up to the wagon/sled. When you get to where you want to feed, you set it back onto the ground, and either throw a hayring over it, or cut the twine, reel out some slack, and use the yoke to roll it out onto the ground.

Honey's dad also chores this way, especially on the coldest days of winter. His team's pretty stout though...horses weigh around the ton mark. Saves a lot of wear and tear on the tractor and fuel, too. There's just something about the crunch of the snow and the jingle of the harness that makes any day a good one.


In the summer, it's a treat to hook them up to the wagon, get the kids all saddled up, throw the camping gear into the wagonbed, and head off for a few nights of relaxation. Used my new team two years ago to pull a wagon full of 4H-ers in the fall parade, and sometimes get the chance to play with them in driving and logskidding competions. Would love to enter pulling competitions, but the mares just aren't stout enough to do well, and would hate to get them all wound up or injured over a few hundred dollars purse.


Take care.

 

[jerry27150]

yes i knew a guy that bought some dairy cows from a guy that had elk, the elk had bangs & they quarantined his herd & if i remember right he had to cull a couple