Introduction

Horses
    Blaze
    Barney
    Mac
    Bill

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The Farm's workhorses provide power for plowing, harrowing, fertilizing, planting, cultivating, mowing, reaping, and transportation. They range in age from 4-27 years old and in weight from 1200 pounds to almost one ton. By breed they are Percheron crosses, Belgian crosses, and mixed breeds. At the turn-of-the-century, farm horses tended to be lighter, multi-purpose workers used for fieldwork, buggy power, or even riding. Two or three such animals would have supplied the power for a 100-acre family farm. But remember that farmers, then, could borrow a neighbor's horses when making a big hitch or replacing a lame animal, eliminating the need for back-up horses.

Our horses generally come with their names since we don't breed our horses.   For more information on each horse, and a picture, click on the horse's name in the menu to the left.

Name	Age	Breed	Color	Ht/Wt	at Farm
Blaze	33	Belgian cross	Brown in summer Black in winter	15.2 hands 1420 lbs	Spring 1985
Blaze now lives at the Farm in retirement. He has been at the Farm since he was about six years old and had been an icon of the Farm for many years.
Barney	28	Percheron	Gray	16 hands 1485 lbs	Nov 1994
Mac	27	Percheron/ quarter horse?	Very dark bay in summer Black in winter	14.2 hands 1275 lbs	Jan 1993
Barney and Mac now live in retirement at a farm in New York State. The farm is owned by a couple that used to work at the Farm and know Mac and Barney well. We wish them a long and happy retirement.
Bill	15	Mix	Bay	ca 1700 lbs	Apr 2004
Jessie	15	Mix	Bay	ca 1700 lbs	Jan 2008
Jack	15	Belgian	Sorel	1800+ lbs	Jan 2008
Chester	15	Belgian	Sorel	ca 1700 lbs	Jan 2008
Tom	11	Belgian mix	Sorel		Apr 2011
Jeb	4	Mix	Bay		Apr 2011

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