Over 8 million horses were used during WWI, draft horses were vital in winning the war. In her quest to discover the history of the Clydesdale horse and save its future, Janice travelled to the ...
Each July, the Lewis’ choose a couple of the best horses from their herd of 30 Clydesdales to make the trip to a special draft horse event hosted at the original Lewis homestead in Markham.
In 2009, a retired Budweiser Clydesdale somehow wound up at an auction of horses intended for the slaughterhouse. Luckily for him, he was saved by Connecticut Draft Horse Rescue and lived out the ...
Horses and oxen provided a lot of the power on American farms until the mid -1800s. Oxen were too slow to pull some of the new machinery. Producers were using in the 1850s and 1860s. Most of the ...