Planting with Horses at Skoien Farm

Joe visits the Skoien Family Farm in Roseau, Minnesota during spring planting with his Percherons.
Clayton Skoien tells us about his history owning draft horses starting with his first horse - a grey mare Roan Belgian when he was only 20 years old. He has had many teams since then.
To get his horses in shape he hooks them to his covered wagon "camper" and takes them on three - 24 mile trips to a campground before real farm work begins.
Watch some great footage of Clayton hitching his team 4-up. He hoods the bit to the hame - the way he was trained.
We also meet his team of two Roan Percherons
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Finally, he hitches 8-up to a seeder and spike toothed harrow disc.
Some sage advice from Clayton: Buy the best bridles you can afford and purchase good draft horse farming equipment.

[@ChroniclesofAlicha_Balaam]

This man is amazing and those horses even more so...eight horse hitch...just wow!!!

[@CountryWilly]

Wish my dear old dad was here to watch this

[@vukadinspasojevic3901]

Good job buddy

[@dankinnard1833]

Liked your video a lot! I do not know anything about horses, just admire them when they are well taken care of and exercised, which appears you do so quite well. Grew up on a small family farm back in the 50's and early 60's, my Dad had a 1939 Farmall "H" that we used for all of our farming needs. Most of the equipment that we used initially was converted horse drawn equipment, to name a few, sickle bar mower, hay rake and hay loader, my older brother drove the tractor, Dad took the hay from the loader and spread over the hay wagon evenly to build the load and my Mom "stomped" the hay down, Very good memories! Our grain drill and corn planter were also converted horse drawn equipment. I also recall an old corn binder that cut and bundled the corn into shocks, you just had to go back stack them together. Wheat, oats, and corn were harvested by a local farmer that had the equipment to do so a timely manner, although I remember picking corn by hand out in the field.

[@helentaylor1222]

Wow thanks so much

[@pjmaynes8747]

Thank you!

[@cathy9160]

Dont like the horses pulling that big heavy building and 25 miles on black top would be very hard on their feet and legs.no horse should
ever be put in a horse pull just cruel when the horses are down on their knees just for a stupid ribbon.I love horses