Monday, April 14, 2014

Horse Drawn Equipment Draws Attention

By Anita Ortega


Our ancestors have used their own bare hands to dig for stuffs, cut tree trunks, or even to catch fish. It used to be that hard before. Lucky for humans nowadays, technology was created. The luxury of life we are experiencing right now is brought by these new advancements. Science made our life a lot easier.

All these technologies, however have brought destruction to Mother Earth. Pollution is a main outcome of what we call modernization. However, to make our lives better, we need to find ways to do things easier and more efficiently. You take, for example, some communities that utilize horse drawn equipment to make their tasks lighter day by day.

Horses, way back in time has been used for riding. Traveling through distant lands are made faster by riding one. Domesticated horses are trained and being used in most heavy jobs that would require their physical strength. Farming areas have benefited from them a whole lot.

Draft farming requires a working horse, for hard and heavy tasks such as plowing and farm labor. These are bred for the purpose of carrying out heavy tasks in the farm that would require much pulling. They can be easily identified by their tall, muscular built, which are very useful for loaded work on a farm.

Farm equipment has been invented to take part in farm jobs with the aid of a draft mare or stallion. Sickle bar mower, bay drawn plows and slitters, cart, cultivators, and gelding drawn three point attachment, these are all drawn by horses. Farm jobs are made easier because of these farm equipment.

One main attraction in Sherwood Park, Alberta are carriages being drawn by horses. Tourists fell in love with this scene that carriage services has been made business in Sherwood Park. People in Sherwood have also started, draft horse farming. Their young citizens have also taken part in breeding draft horses. These beauties have been found out to be therapeutic, which can stimulate your emotional, mental and social well being.

Horses used to be wild animals. They were tamed and raised as farm animals. They find these animals very useful in their daily living. From leisure riding, they have been used to take charge in some farm jobs that would require their beastly strength and endurance.

For a rural community, a colt is considered a prized animal. They are regarded with the utmost importance. People should take care of animals the same way. They are like us in so many ways. We breathe the same air, and live on the same planet. Human beings like them, wants to run free and wild in this beautiful world we live in.

Beauty is one of the gift nature has given you. What you see around you is a gift. You have been provided with that gift as a protector of life on Earth. It is part of your obligation to nurture the life that has been given under your care. A life that is priceless is for every living organism in this planet. All life, therefore on Earth matters. People want to live longer than anyone else. For that to be fulfilled, we take care of one another.




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