Another one for the draft horse fans......

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Look at the raw power and movement - and the enormous shoes!

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Biggest cost would be the fencing it would walk through on a regular basis and there would be no time to enjoy it because it would take all day to tread the potholes in !!
 
I think I felt my sofa shake as he was thundering along!!!

Not my cup of tea, and I have never liked that they have their tails docked.
 
Fools Motto said:
Love the black feathers!! BUT, wouldn't want one of them to step on my toe! :eek:
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Was just thinking same :eek: I got stood on by TB this morning and was thinking had it been something like that I'd have had to dig my foot out of the concrete..well, what was left of it anyhow which I suspect would have looked more like a flipper than a foot :D
 
I love him, after he'd finish destroying all the fences, you'd need a mortgage for a saddle to be made for him
 
Blurry hell, he's huge! He did look odd being docked, it would have improved the picture even more if he had a bit of a tail flying out behind him. Gorgeous beastie though.
 
Biggest cost is shoeing if they need it!!!

Easily £140+ a set and that's once you have found a farrier willing to shoe a heavy.

As long as you keep electric on they seem to be ok. I have started to get into hearts and plait for friends at shows and all those horse overnight in electric fencing (shires and suffolks)
 
Love the horse...I'd have one in a heartbeat! Hate the docked tail, though. He's shod because he's shown (he is the national champion). There's another YouTube video of a black/grey called Simon van Straten, posted by Robert Piessens. Take a look at the suspension in his trot...stunning!! Sorry, I don't know how to post a link.
 
Agree he's impressive, there's something awe inspiring about a good heavy. Wouldn't say that they are cheap to keep though, they get through loads of hay! :eek:
 
RutlandH2O said:
Thanks for the link! Isn't he the bees knees?! And people think heavies can't move.

touchstone: loads and loads of hay! My 4 Shires go through a bale/bale and a half each daily from about November to March/April, and they are housed.
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I think I have a false view of what they eat then :D.

Mine is a draft X and he gets the same amount as my elderly Arab did. Poor lad must be starving :D
 
Oberon said:
I think I have a false view of what they eat then :D.

Mine is a draft X and he gets the same amount as my elderly Arab did. Poor lad must be starving :D
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My lot aren't rugged, but they are housed in a massive polebarn over the winter. There are walls and the roof is extremely high with tonnes of ventilation through Yorkshire slats and 6' high openings on one whole side, so it gets pretty cold in there. As long as they are warm from within, it's worth every bale eaten and every poo picked!
 
RutlandH2O said:
My lot aren't rugged, but they are housed in a massive polebarn over the winter. There are walls and the roof is extremely high with tonnes of ventilation through Yorkshire slats and 6' high openings on one whole side, so it gets pretty cold in there. As long as they are warm from within, it's worth every bale eaten and every poo picked!
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Sounds like heaven.

I'm on livery yards and while in the stable I've experienced him

1) Destroying every auto drinker by rubbing his arse on it

2) Knocking blocks out of the wall by rubbing his arse on it

3) Knocking a window frame out by rubbing his arse on it

:eek: :D
 
Oberon said:
Sounds like heaven.

I'm on livery yards and while in the stable I've experienced him

1) Destroying every auto drinker by rubbing his arse on it

2) Knocking blocks out of the wall by rubbing his arse on it

3) Knocking a window frame out by rubbing his arse on it

:eek: :D
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Oh, yes!! Ditto!! And I stopped using haynets because they rubbed their arses on them (if I placed them any higher they would have done their necks no favours), so now they are fed hay in tombstone feeders, on which they rub their collective arses! They, mostly the boys, rub their arses on any post (gate posts, polebarn posts, and the telephone post we placed in one of their fields, which was buried 5 feet into the ground...it is now the leaning post of Rutland). Yes, water troughs are fair game, but they are too low for their arses, so they use their hind legs. We keep the troughs up against the fences with 2 breeze blocks on each side. Works a treat! Oh, and fence rails are a particular favourite for their arses. We've put a electric rope on 8 inch brackets off the top rails and that seems to have done the trick. Even the corners of the outside of their field shelters are inviting for their arses. Haven't figured out how to deter them from that vice, yet. I echo your eek!
 
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