Legacy of the Percheron Horse in America

[@mikewyd53]

my Grandfather and his dad, raised and used Percherons for farming, first in Iowa, and then in Wyoming when they homesteaded in the Wind River Valley. My Grandfather told me they had a team, mare and gelding, that they commonly shoed in pulling contests. The gelding was taller, about 1800 pounds, the mare, stockier, about 2000 pounds. When given the signal to pull, the mare would strain against the harness as the gelding held back while getting excited. When the big mare moved the weight sled even a fraction, the gelding immediately hit the harness as hard as he could, and off they went. They never lost. This was something they did naturally, my ancestors did not train this into them. My Grandfather always told me that they were the smartest horses he ever knew.

[@bethcoddington2150]

I just went to a Draft horse this weekend! So glad I found this video! Very interesting. Thank you for posting!

[@robinsonpaul4798]

Are you horse lovers too?

[@ernestclements7398]

My late fathers step father dealt in draft horses in Oskaloosa Iowa circa 1930s through WW2 my dad preferred Percherons over all of the others, often riding one to school, and using them to plow gardens for people in town.

[@elletasner2158]

I rode one in Colorado for my first time. Fell in love.

[@johnnydtractive]

Lovely breed of horse & great video. Unfortunate to see the docked tails. Something I appreciate about the old black & white photos from long ago at the beginning of the vid is that those horses worked every day & no one saw a need to dock their tails.

[@ellismidkiff6117]

it’s hair it grows back.

[@guy8646]

@@ellismidkiff6117No, when they dock tails like many of these horses they actually cut the vertebrae like when they dock dog tails. The hair will not grow longer than this because the rest of the tail is missing.

[@BRPFan]

I had Percheron horses and was very glad to sell them! I switched to Clydesdales and oh my goodness what a joy to work with complained to the hot head Percheron’s!

[@phoebecatgirl933]

My grandfather, when he returned from WWI (he drove an ambulance in France - I guess he was one of few who could drive!) returned to the US to start farming, and he bought two Percherons (Buck and Bess) to help out with the work.

[@lawrencefure2102]

My grandfather was also in France during WWI. He was in the ambulance corps during this time. He was part of the Wisconsin regiment.

[@clintmcqueen7755]

My dad's uncle was in WWI in the US calvary until .

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

You were doing well to have a mating pair of Percherons . Or was he gelded ?

[@s.leemccauley7302]

My grandad was in the cavalry in WW I. Barbed wire, machine guns and gas attacks soon had most on foot and in the trenches. As a youth he was a farmboy and used draft horses..

[@donnahimpler6649]

Great to see Today Thanks for the show.

[@markc1234golf]

If i am not mistaken the Percheron has Spanish (Pure bred Spanish Horse - Andalusian) blood in them, which is why they are so intelligent and which is why they don't FORGET how to do sth. The spanish horse is famous for that. I have owned and bred them for 20 yrs they are brilliant animals and also have enlivened the Irish Draft horse as well as the Connemara Pony due to the early ties of the Spanish with the Irish .

[@brycebertolino7017]

My great grandfather,originally a coal miner from Northern Italy, proved up his homestead in Montana and one of the highlights of his life was importing a Percheron stallion.

[@dreamtoreality9892]

I am a sucker for the gentle giants. The Percheron is my favorite horse of all.

[@kamleshtalpada4588]

Beautiful horse

[@shaikismaeel6186]

Wonderful legacy by horse culture

[@Christian_Girl120]

Percherons are awesome! I went to a fair today and met 4. They were big sweethearts and clowns! They cracked me up! LOL!!

[@robertborove3204]

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[@phyllisjonson7501]

Beautiful magnificent horses!!😍😍

[@robinsonpaul4798]

Yes, are you horse lovers too?

[@larrywarren2431]

Good advice

[@richardriddell6077]

I’ve just started to drive a team of Percherons,

[@cathyparker2008]

What a Beauty!❤❤❤

[@jefferyschirm4103]

I rode a small type perchron around 1350 , I broke him and rode till he was 9 yrs old , best riding horse I ever had a stud . He bred a lot of grade mares . The only bad thing he had no sense of direction , if it got dark or you was in a place you hadn't been in for a while you could never give him his head he'd go till he found a fence ! But he could climb like a dozer , run too !

[@rickyrobertson8064]

PERCHERONS are some very intelligent animals.

[@tozobozo4142]

It's interesting looking at the offerings on this channel, you'd think that neither the Shire nor the Clydesdale horses exist.

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

How much do you spend o upkeep of a pair of Percherons ? Just wondering if my plan to small organic farm would benbefit more from Percherons or tractor ? I suspect tractor , but if the difference is not emmense I might prefer the horses

[@koi---]

How'd it go

[@alb5489]

At one time the greys were the color of choice, more visible at night for fire companies and coaches. The black is more in demand now, no white hairs on clothing or seats and it is easier to match horses. Greys come in dapple, flea-bitten, steel grey, blue roan (beautiful), all in various shades or patterns. Black is black and is a little less work (a lot less) to get cleaned up for that wedding job or???

[@robertwilcox7302]

I grew up on a farm just north of Boone Iowa, we had a neighbor by the name of Elsberry that still did his farming with a pair of Percherons, this would have been around about 1962/63

[@pcs2511]

Wasn't the percherons especially the black mares used to make the mammoth jackstock mule? Which are in danger of extinction

[@rupertmcnaughtdavis3649]

Used them for many years to cultivate vineyards and Turkish tobacco untill I started using mules.From South Africa.

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[@gillopez6461]

Those are great horses. Thanks for the video. Are they expensive? I would like to have a pair to work in my small farm in Mexico. Thanks.

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[@kentdaily7107]

good good good kent

[@jazzdavis-gil4859]

so unfortunate that people dock their tails considering that’s their only defense against those pesky flies :( But aside from that percherons are great beginner horses and due to their arabian bloodlines their good for more than just plowing. My percheron does dressage, and cross country :) wonderful horses with great dispositions

[@cathiwim]

Jazz Davis-Gil buthave you ever been hit inthe face by a full length tail? I have. Not fun! Lol i agree about the docking, but see why they do it.

[@itsallgood4093]

@@cathiwim if you have a horse then you've been hit in the face with a tail lol. Tail docking is more for safety, like not getting those reins caught underneath a horse's tail.

[@clintmcqueen7755]

Best Breed of draft horses.

[@ernestclements7398]

Getting a tail in your face stings don't it lol

[@markc1234golf]

Spanish HOrses are the Kings of Horses and the Horses of Kings ;) they are THE BEST .

[@bubbamiles8133]

Cannot hear

[@thunderstick73]

idk why they have to go thru the whole mess of tying up two horse to drag a bale of hay lol

[@dennis8309]

@ 14:39 "Nothing prettier than a black horse totally shit out" lol

[@angus9941]

Shed out.

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[@shawnaweesner3759]

Jim, you are a typical farmer who abuses your horses with bits, eye blinders, and more leather straps then ever before.

[@georgegoertzen4723]

Typical farmers who have the patience to feed, clean, groom and harness a working horse do it for the love of the animal. Why else put up with the shit, the heat and sweat, the sun, the rain and the snow, the flys and bugs, the freezing cold day after day after day - because you can't just take the key out of the ignition when you park it beside the barn and shut the door of the heated and air-conditioned cab like you can the tractor. Working horses typically have a straight bar bit that is used to communicate with the horse not abuse it. They are often rubber wrapped and a rubber bit is usually used to train a working horse. There is no better peice of equipment available to use in place of a bit, especially when working a team of horses, if there was, they'd be using it. Blinkers are used to prevent the horse from being startled into a flight response to that creature that is chasing it and is right on it's heels. Horses can be trained to work without blinkers but horses are unique in that you need to train each eye individually, then both together - for each and every different piece of equipment he may be required to push - yes - push! Horses do not pull but push against their collar which is attached to traces which are in turn, attached to the device they are to move. And if a horse hasn't worked with a piece of equipment for a while, he needs a reintroduction - the time required to train two eyes on two horses for a plow, manure spreader, disk, a seed-drill, mower, wagon......you can see why most working horses wear blinkers. If it were not for farmers like Jim, the work horse would have disappeared from the countryside, into slaughterhouses and shipped over to Europe for consumption where they don't hold the animal in as high a regard as a North American teamster. So all you Jims out there , give your horses a pet on the neck for me today, as you feed, water and muck out his stable, or turn him out on his pature, just as you do everyday, 365 days a year and thank you for bring back fond memories of Bessie and Kate, my grandfather's Clydesdales when you make the effort to put on a show at the fair.

[@denisecaruso345]

Easier to push than to pull .

[@highiqretardbear33]

I think you meant "than". You should learn to speak before you talk shit.

[@sanniepstein4835]

@@georgegoertzen4723 Well said.

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