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Ox cheek slow cooker this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Not to be confused with Aurochs or Muskox.
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Ploughing with Oxen by George H. Oxen are usually yoked in pairs. Light work such as carting household items on good roads might require just one pair, while for heavier work, further pairs would be added as necessary.
A team used for a heavy load over difficult ground might exceed nine or ten pairs. Oxen are thought to have first been harnessed and put to work around 4000 BC. Working oxen are taught to respond to the signals of the teamster, bullocky or ox-driver. Verbal commands for draft animals vary widely throughout the world.
In the New England tradition, young castrated cattle selected for draft are known as working steers and are painstakingly trained from a young age. Their teamster makes or buys as many as a dozen yokes of different sizes for each animal as it grows. The steers are normally considered fully trained at the age of four and only then become known as oxen. A plowing team of eight oxen normally consisted of four pairs aged a year apart. Each year, a pair of steers of about three years of age would be bought for the team and trained with the older animals. Pairs of oxen were always hitched the same way round, and they were often given paired names.
Ox trainers favor larger animals for their ability to do more work. Oxen are therefore usually of larger breeds, and are usually males because they are generally larger. Females can also be trained as oxen, but as well as being smaller, are often more valued for producing calves and milk. Working oxen usually require shoes, although in England not all working oxen were shod.
Since their hooves are cloven, two shoes are required for each hoof, as opposed to a single horseshoe. In England, shoeing was accomplished by throwing the ox to the ground and lashing all four feet to a heavy wooden tripod until the shoeing was complete. Such devices were made of wood in the past, but may today be of metal. Similar devices are found in France, Austria, Germany, Spain, Canada and the United States, where they may be called ox slings, ox presses or shoeing stalls. Oxen can pull heavier loads, and pull for a longer period of time than horses depending on weather conditions. For agricultural purposes, oxen are more suitable for heavy tasks such as breaking sod or plowing in wet, heavy, or clay-filled soil. When hauling freight, oxen can move very heavy loads in a slow and steady fashion.
They are at a disadvantage compared to horses when it is necessary to pull a plow or load of freight relatively quickly. For millennia, oxen also could pull heavier loads because of the use of the yoke, which was designed to work best with the neck and shoulder anatomy of cattle. HISTORY OF THE DOMESTICATION OF ANIMALS”. North Adams, Massachusetts, USA: Storey Publishing. The Economic Role of Cattle in Communal Farming Systems in Zimbabwe”, to be published in Zimbabwe Veterinary Journal, p 10.
