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To: AnAmericanMother

I imagine you’d REALLY have to have one while working on draft horses. I mean, dang, their feet are as big as my head. Some people will only shoe big horses like that or problem horses in a “Shoeing Stock”. It’s like the stocks they have at the vets office, but it has places where you can tie each foot to a support as you’re working on it so they can’t take it away from you and the stocks keep them from getting away. I’ve never seen one used though. I’ve just heard about them from an old guy around here who likes to mess with Belgians. I think he built one.


7,510 posted on 05/22/2007 7:04:19 AM PDT by FrogInABlender (Don't take life too seriously. No one gets out alive.)
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To: FrogInABlender
Fortunately the drafts are usually so quiet that they'd just as soon stand in one place with one foot up in the air, so long as they can doze . . .

My daughter's summer camp had two Belgians in the barn - just two great big gentle giants, you could put a four year old child on them and they'd just stand there, or walk slowly around. It was a major effort to get them to trot! My daughter liked to ride the smaller of the two on the overnight camping trail rides, she said it was like riding on a sofa.

7,511 posted on 05/22/2007 7:06:48 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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