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DRAFT/DRAFT CROSS OWNERS...Book In the Works & We Need Your Draft Horse Stories?....

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    #101
    I'll do some writing - what else do you want me to do I'm happy to volunteer to get it done!
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    • #102
      Dear Oaksbrae, thank you for volunteering to write! Can you please email me this story? I'll just collect them and distribute them to volunteer editors. This weekend, I'm going to write our goal of what to expect in the book and include few samples before I will send it out to a volunteer editor to see what she has to say about this thus far.

      Dear all, if you have a story to write, please email it to:

      chris@flugsvamp.com
      and
      chris@trolltruffles.com

      Thank you!!!

      Let's make this dream a reality!
      Will get a dream horse!
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      • #103
        Oaksbrae, I forgot to thank you for posting asking for reports!!! Thank you for the inspiration! Thank you!

        As I mentioned before, English is not my language. Thus, I depend on volunteers to help with writing, collecting stories, fleshing out, provide honest opinions, etc. Can you do all of this with several other volunteers? I'd just do the same thing but I will always submit my work to volunteers for more editing. We can collect stories from several places in USA, Canada, and Mexico - even Europe! where the drafts are. The secret to successful completion of a project is the volunteers!!!!!
        Will get a dream horse!
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        • #104
          [quote=Prieta]chris@trolltruffles.com

          quote]

          OK...now I have to know what a Troll Truffle is. As for stories.....If someone here would be so kind as to give me their oh so wonderful Halfilger, I'd be happy to write a story!
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          • #105
            Ohhh, Troll Truffles is where you get to purchase chocolates! Yummy! MMMM!

            Dear, if you have somone with a draft and a great story to tell, can you please write????
            Will get a dream horse!
            More riding, swimming, and rowing, less posting

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            • #106
              Shameless bump.


              Come on...I just know that there are more of us out here!
              <>< Sorrow Looks Back. Worry Looks Around. Faith Looks Up! -- Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

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              • #107
                We need volunteers to help write this book, Gentle Giants. Please contact us when you want to volunteer. Or, better yet, please let us know if you have a story but do not want to spend time writing. We will help with the writing.....

                Those gentle giants will love the book starring about themselves!
                Will get a dream horse!
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                • #108
                  Originally posted by ChocoMare
                  Come on...I just know that there are more of us out here!
                  Okay, I'll bite

                  I'm not quite middle aged, but I do enjoy my draft gelding, so I'll pop in and say hello! Stan's a 7yr old 18hh Belgian draft, and I've had him since he was 8 months old. He rides and drives, has been shown in low-level Hunter classes, Halter, and Ladies Cart, trail rides, and can pack a 4-H child around a walk-trot pleasure class. He's pretty much your stereotypical big marshmallow of horse.

                  I don't think I have any really heartwrenching stories to tell. Luckily my experiences with Stan have been relatively uneventful.

                  What little I know about showing in draft shows I learned from the lovely lady who bred MuleLady's draft mules. She's just a real gem, very willing to share her knowledge with anyone who'll listen. Someone asked about draft lines with less knee action, and maybe MuleLady will chime back in - I know that Emma's dam and Emma's full draft half-sister had more of a long and low way of going to her, but I don't recall her lines.
                  "In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn’t merely train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming part dog."
                  -Edward Hoagland

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                  • #109
                    Bumpity bump bump bump bump....bump... I can't share stories that haven't already been shared.

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                    • #110
                      Maybe we need to start a new thread: DRAFT/DRAFT CROSS OWNERS...Book In the Works & We Need Your Draft Horse Stories?....or at least change the title of this thread to show the update?

                      I'm also gonna do a cross post over at Percheron Horse Network. Althought we're kinda small, I'm sure we can get a few stories out of them.

                      Prieta: I'm still working on fleshing out my story a little more. Should I send it to you when I think it's done for editing, etc.? Just lemme know!
                      <>< Sorrow Looks Back. Worry Looks Around. Faith Looks Up! -- Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

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                      • #111
                        What kind of stories do you need? I some of the most influential people in my life are breeders of Belgians and are an inspiration to many. Are there specs? (sorry I don't have time to go through all the posts right now but would love to help in any way, I was always great in my Eng. Comp. classes! I might even have a story or two...used to ride a big Perch X and he was a BEAST!!) But I'm not middle aged quite yet though...

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                        • Original Poster
                          #112
                          Title is changed.

                          I'm technically not middle-aged either - but I'm not *young*, which I think was my point. At least I think it was.

                          I don't think there are criteria other than the fact that it ought to reflect the very special relationship that you can have with one (or more) of these creatures.
                          Meet Wendall the wonder horse
                          and introducing Machado! http://pets.webshots.com/photo/28186...SDi?vhost=pets

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                          • #113
                            Hey - wassup?

                            Stories? Someone wants stories? For a book? What sort of book? Do you want any stories about my draft crosses? Because I tell you what - I got plenty - and they mostly involve me learning a lesson in physics.

                            How about my first season hunting - in which I did more piaffe, passage and half passes in one hour than what spectators can see in the freakin' Olympics - who says draft crosses can't do the upper levels! They just need 100 other horses, a hunting horn and a pack of smelly hounds!

                            Or the draft cross version of the "Crazy Ivan" of submarine lore - in which the draft cross wants to see what's behind him - but being so big and clumsy - decides the easiest way to accomplish this is to jump 4 feet in the air, spin, look behind him, jump 4 feet in the air, and face forward again - WHILE the owner is adjusting her stirrups and trying to drink from a flask at the same time.

                            Or the draft crosses who decide that jumping is stupid and it makes much more sense to just knock things out of the way.

                            Or the draft crosses who take one look at a driving harness and decide that today they are going to be a thoroughbred - not a plow horse.

                            Or the draft crosses who delight in giving wedgies to the farrier.

                            Or the draft crosses who gets the goat stuck in his fly mask and doesn't know what to do so he just carries the goat around until the fly mask velcro gives...

                            Or the draft crosses who scratch their butts on my brand new uber expensive gate and bend it into a "V".

                            Or the time my bestest buddy draft cross decided to try and die on me and the evil equine hospital didn't want me sleeping on a wrought iron bench in the parking lot and how happy I was when he decided not to die and he dragged me over to the trailer when it was time to go home?

                            Those kind of stories?
                            Brothers and sisters, I bid you beware
                            Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
                            -Rudyard Kipling

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                            • #114
                              Originally posted by J Swan
                              Hey - wassup?

                              Stories? Someone wants stories? For a book? What sort of book? Do you want any stories about my draft crosses? Because I tell you what - I got plenty - and they mostly involve me learning a lesson in physics.

                              How about my first season hunting - in which I did more piaffe, passage and half passes in one hour than what spectators can see in the freakin' Olympics - who says draft crosses can't do the upper levels! They just need 100 other horses, a hunting horn and a pack of smelly hounds!

                              Or the draft cross version of the "Crazy Ivan" of submarine lore - in which the draft cross wants to see what's behind him - but being so big and clumsy - decides the easiest way to accomplish this is to jump 4 feet in the air, spin, look behind him, jump 4 feet in the air, and face forward again - WHILE the owner is adjusting her stirrups and trying to drink from a flask at the same time.

                              Or the draft crosses who decide that jumping is stupid and it makes much more sense to just knock things out of the way.

                              Or the draft crosses who take one look at a driving harness and decide that today they are going to be a thoroughbred - not a plow horse.

                              Or the draft crosses who delight in giving wedgies to the farrier.

                              Or the draft crosses who gets the goat stuck in his fly mask and doesn't know what to do so he just carries the goat around until the fly mask velcro gives...

                              Or the draft crosses who scratch their butts on my brand new uber expensive gate and bend it into a "V".

                              Or the time my bestest buddy draft cross decided to try and die on me and the evil equine hospital didn't want me sleeping on a wrought iron bench in the parking lot and how happy I was when he decided not to die and he dragged me over to the trailer when it was time to go home?

                              Those kind of stories?
                              Uh, yeah...those!
                              <>< Sorrow Looks Back. Worry Looks Around. Faith Looks Up! -- Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

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                              • #115


                                Someone asked what are the criterias for including stories in the book, Gentle Giants.

                                I need to remind all of you that this book will be mainly written by volunteers and a pusher - myself. thus, if you do not agree to the criteria, please let us know. If you want to add something else to the criteria, please let us know! We are open just as long as we include wonderful stories that will make you feel warm all over, cry with laughter, cry with the owners, etc.

                                I'd like to see the stories include:
                                1. of a horse that is at least 1/4 draft
                                2. how this draft makes you laugh
                                3. how this draft makes you cry
                                4. how this draft makes you think
                                5. how this draft is versatile - like he is a police horse, he is a fox hunter (my farrier who owns Belgians could NOT believe that there are some fox hunters!)
                                6. how this draft fits in the family
                                7. at least 1000 words (??) (enough words to fill in two or three pages with few photos)
                                8. you do not need to be middle aged.

                                Those stories must be true and will be verified. If you do not feel like you can write a masterpiece, you can refer to a volunteer for help with writing which I will most certainly do!

                                I've included this proposal to one of the volunteer editors. If there is anything you think need changing, please let us know.

                                "Gentle giants are drafts horses well known for their large and muscular stature; however, they are not well known for their gentleness and kindness towards us. This pictorial book is a collection of true stories showing how gentle giants strive to excel in our world. For example, an owner relates about how her giant grieved over the loss of her horse friend, a police giant rescued a lost little boy in the crowd, a giant playing a ball with the girl, and many more stories to be shown in this book, Gentle Giant".

                                Let's just do it!
                                Will get a dream horse!
                                More riding, swimming, and rowing, less posting

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                                • #116
                                  Bubble Bursting...

                                  Originally posted by Prieta

                                  "Gentle giants are drafts horses well known for their large and muscular stature; however, they are not well known for their gentleness and kindness towards us. This pictorial book is a collection of true stories showing how gentle giants strive to excel in our world. For example, an owner relates about how her giant grieved over the loss of her horse friend, a police giant rescued a lost little boy in the crowd, a giant playing a ball with the girl, and many more stories to be shown in this book, Gentle Giant".
                                  However, (sorry to burst everyone's bubble) but we first NEED to check if
                                  A. there is such a book out already
                                  B. if "Gentle Giants" is taken (title),
                                  C. make sure these stories are ORIGINAL (no one likes reading about how the draftie pulled Billy-Jo-Bob out of the well a million times...)

                                  and these also need to be relatable to the non-horse audience, because the book won't excel, grow, and flourish if we just aim for the horse people.

                                  Again, sorry for bringing this up, but we need to think about some of the concequences BEFORE we get up to our ears in this.

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                                  • #117
                                    Welcome to COTH, Dr. Kamen. I appreciate your concern but I do not see why you need to post here.

                                    SillySunny, you have several good points here. I've done some of the searching and talking with few people. there are some points that need to be addressed which are:

                                    1. I cannot find a book about how we relate with the drafts - not on how to care for them or how to train them. But, stories about them.

                                    2. Pictorial book might be a bit too expensive for the general public. We might need to "imitate" Chicken Soup and use that for our book. the book will be cheaper and more accessible to wider audience.

                                    3. We need to find a publisher that is willing to publish "paperback" book about drafts.

                                    Do you all agree to this?
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                                    • Original Poster
                                      #118
                                      Dr. Kamen? Did I miss something?

                                      Prieta, I'm compiling something now I'm practicing and keeping myself sharp with my COTH postings
                                      Meet Wendall the wonder horse
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                                      • #119
                                        Prieta, I'll send you an email. Mr. chai and I have rescued quite a few horses, but our draftie was a real, live purchase from a wonderful man who loved him a lot. There were tears and hugs when my Shire was delivered to me. I still think about his previous owner and I think he would be so happy to know that his 'boy' is still so well loved.
                                        I'm also happy to help write, too.

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                                        • #120
                                          Here's a story for you, happened on Sunday morning.

                                          Homer (aka Homie, Homes, hey you, etc) is a 17+ draft/TB. We have no idea what flavour of draft went into him. What came out is a big bay with tree-trunk legs and the most gorgeous sweeping shoulder I've ever seen, a laid-back trusting personality, and a propensity to drool. Give Homer an apple, get a bath in return.

                                          Homer went trailing on Sunday for the first time. He is young, only 6, and started late. The steering and brakes are there, for the most part. He went with a BS Paint filly named Molly who came up to his armpit and a midsize app cross gelding named Dakota. Molly's rider is also quite small--we all thought he must have been a jockey in a past life--and Dakota's rider is also medium height. I'm 5'10 and riding the 17.2 giant. This lead to some hilarity on the trail, as Homer would walk right up behind Molly, nearly walk right OVER her, and get the most priceless surprised expression on his face as he looked down and saw another horse there. Molly was a saint about the whole thing, and more interested in the tasty green stuff on the ground than being run over by a big bay bulldozer.

                                          On the trail, we encountered the following:
                                          A semi truck at point-blank range
                                          A man with a weed whacker
                                          A bunny rabbit running under Homer's feet
                                          Horse-eating mailbox monsters
                                          Assorted loose dogs
                                          Rude drivers going well over the posted speed limit

                                          None of these got so much as a flicked ear, although the dogs did warrant him looking at them with both eyes. Then we passed the patch of kudzu, and that was enough to send him into a full-blown bugeyed snorting shaking spook. Go figure...the one thing that is attached to the ground, does not move, and does not make noise was the thing that scared him.

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