Draft Horses and Mules: Harnessing Equine Power for Farm & Show (Storey's Working Animals) - Softcover

Damerow, Gail; Rice, Alina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1603420819 ISBN 13: 9781603420815

Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC, 2008

Synopsis

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. 

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1603420819
• ISBN 13: 9781603420815
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 262