Draft Horses and Mules

Draft Horses and Mules
Author: Gail Damerow
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1603420819

Draft Horses and Mules, by Gail Damerow and Alina Rice, distills the great tradition of these impressive animals into a definitive guide. Designed for new or intermediate owners, the 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 agricultural, logging, and demonstration tasks.

Wonders of Draft Horses

Wonders of Draft Horses
Author: Sigmund A. Lavine
Publisher: Dodd Mead
Total Pages: 86
Release: 1983
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 9780396081388

Traces the role of the draft horse throughout history and describes the characteristics of some of the most popular breeds including the Belgian, Clydesdale, Percheron, Shire, and Suffolk.

The Gentle Giants

The Gentle Giants
Author: Stanley M. Jepsen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 158
Release: 1973
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

This book is an acknowledgement of the debt mankind owes these unconplaining companions in toil and a tribute to the breeders who have brought us the magnificent animals of today.

Draft Horses Today

Draft Horses Today
Author: Robert A. Mischka
Publisher: Mischka Press/Heart Prairie
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1992
Genre: Draft horses
ISBN: 9780962266362

It's Showtime!

It's Showtime!
Author: Robert A. Mischka
Publisher: Mischka Press/Heart Prairie
Total Pages: 138
Release: 1998
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781882199044

The Encyclopedia of Historic and Endangered Livestock and Poultry Breeds

The Encyclopedia of Historic and Endangered Livestock and Poultry Breeds
Author: Janet Vorwald Dohner
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 030013813X

"The need to preserve farm animal diversity is increasingly urgent, says the author of this definitive book on endangered breeds of livestock and poultry. Farmyard animals may hold critical keys for our survival, Jan Dohner warns, and with each extinction, genetic traits of potentially vital importance to our agricultural future or to medical progress are forever lost."--BOOK JACKET.