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Horse/oxen power Written by Thérèse (3/19/2013 2:22 p.m.) in consequence of the missive, I doubt that..., penned by Alison Y

Well, it seems that in England, a XVIIIth century rise of the shire/clydesdale breeds fit to plough, and able to walk on hard roads, led to the decline in the use of oxen, logically confined to farms of the middling sort, rich enough to have a pair of oxen, but not enough for a pair of such horses, that were expensive to feed (in very poor parts of South-Western France, they were bred, when ploughing, with a mixture of corn leaves, fern etc, that they hated and were fed forceibly).

Therefore I doubt Donwell had any oxen.
But shire and clydesdale horses were certainly not fit for a carriage.

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horses bridget D (3/17/2013 5:20 a.m.)
- Donwell horses Thérèse (3/17/2013 8:20 a.m.)
  - Horses   bridget D (3/17/2013 9:32 a.m.)
    
    Question regarding oxen in British farms for bridget D...   Alison Y (3/18/2013 1:15 p.m.)
    
    Oxen   bridget D (3/18/2013 1:19 p.m.)
    
    Oxen   bridget D (3/19/2013 5:41 a.m.)
    
    I doubt that...   Alison Y (3/19/2013 1:02 p.m.)
    
    Oxen   bridget D (3/19/2013 5:28 p.m.)
    
    Horse/oxen power   Thérèse (3/19/2013 2:22 p.m.)
    
    carriage   Nikki N (3/17/2013 11:27 p.m.)
    
    Gigs   bridget D (3/18/2013 2:28 a.m.)
    
    Sold Donwell carriages?   Thérèse (3/18/2013 9:21 a.m.)
    
    I gather that horses were readly available for rent   alexl (3/17/2013 9:46 a.m.)
    
    Yes, at the Crown Inn   Graciela (3/18/2013 12:13 p.m.)
    
    Crown Inn horses and the Eltons'   ThÃ©rÃ¨se (3/18/2013 2:08 p.m.)
    
    But they won't be the superior Eltons' horses   Graciela (3/18/2013 2:45 p.m.)
    
    True, true   Thérèse (3/18/2013 4:30 p.m.)
    
    carriage horses   bridget D (3/17/2013 10:16 a.m.)

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