New neighbours moved in a few days ago, and they have 8 ENORMOUS draft horses!!

[michaelgemar@cosocial.ca]

@sundogplanets Are there practical uses for draft horses these days, apart from pulling beer wagons?

[mcourcel@allovertheplace.ca]

@sundogplanets draft horses are so cool. They sound hilarious eating apples. Just watch your fingers.

[allisonhooper@mas.to]

@sundogplanets They are gentle giants!

[geonz@mathstodon.xyz]

@sundogplanets @shapr Time to boost! Horse nerds where are you

[ldmay65@universeodon.com]

@sundogplanets
Wow! I hope the new neighbors are nice.
Gorgeous horses.

[msokolov@fosstodon.org]

@michaelgemar @sundogplanets horse logging

[zombiegopher@gamepad.club]

@sundogplanets horses be swole, bro

[rhw@mastodon.au]

@mcourcel @sundogplanets
They like apples better than cookies, but keep your hand FLAT.

[riaresists@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets How cool!

[susannedoering@zirk.us]

@sundogplanets nice neighbors. Sigh.

[johntimaeus@infosec.exchange]

@geonz @sundogplanets @shapr

I asked my wife. Answer was maybe Clydesdale, but then she started rattling off another half dozen options including a Suffolk/Punch cross.
She then claimed no knowledge of horses.

[tallsimon@mstdn.ca]

@sundogplanets My sister might know, I'll ask her. Her horse is half Percheron, another at the barn a Percheron.

Also big, and sometimes less than fully aware of their own size. Gentle beasts. I'm told big horses usually are by breeding.

Until one of the ren faire guys gets them out on the jousting lists and they turn into murder horses (they really like playing any variant on kill the peasant).

[phil_stevens@mastodon.nz]

@sundogplanets This is so cool. Do they work the team? I had an uncle who is in the Iowa draft horsemen's hall of fame and always thought he had the best farm when I was a kid. Because of the horses of course.

[fondoffawns@nerdculture.de]

@sundogplanets Gorgeous beasts

[geonz@mathstodon.xyz]

@johntimaeus @sundogplanets @shapr https://wildjolie.com/blogs/guide/draft-horse-breeds

[oldclumsy_nowmad@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets

Cookies (for the human neighbors) are a great idea. And while visiting, ask if it's okay to give the horses carrots or apples occasionally. The old handful-of-grass trick probably won't charm them much in your surroundings!

They are beautiful critters, indeed!

p.s. Found some nice photos of several breeds at
https://equinehelper.com/types-of-draft-horses/

[usernomnomnom@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets are those ardennes horses? they look so lovely, and so huge!

[knf100@sfba.social]

@sundogplanets I’m not into horses really but it must be cool to have furry visitors who have interests and can be social.

[averagejoe@gardenstate.social]

@sundogplanets Gentle giants. Don't feed them cookies or other treats before clearing it with their people. Some horses are on restricted diets.

[rhamphorhynchus@mastodon.nz]

@sundogplanets The wide and over-the-knee white markings are typical of Clydesdales, but possibly other breeds too! They look huge and lovely.