Wednesday, December 10, 2008

What is an ox?

I have a friend who is a medical doctor and he shared an interesting piece of information that was farm related (he's a part-time farmer like me) so I thought I would post it here for your viewing pleasure. We read about oxen in the bible but do you ever see an ox farm? I don't and now I know why. As it turns out, any animal that pulls a farm implement can be called an ox! So if you hook up a plow to old Buster, he is by definition an ox. I know there is a specific animal in some parts of the world that are called oxen, but they look suspiciously like a bull to me!
Posted by Matthew at 9:34 AM

1 comment:

  1. AnonymousJune 16, 2009 at 6:06 PM

    Actually they must be castarated and over 4 years of age to be considered an ox.

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Welcome to our family blog. We have a small (55 acres) farm and are attempting to raise beef cattle, some hay, laying hens, honey bees, a dog and a small garden. We also have a small pond that has fish in it but they pretty much raise themselves.The Twenty-eight eleven is the name of our farm. It comes from Deutronomy 28:11 which reads: "The LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your beast and in the produce of your ground in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you." We count on God's blessings for our life as we know it so we thought it appropriate to go ahead and give Him all the glory for anything good that we produce, be it crops, cows, or children. This blog will be a fun project for us to document what is going on at our farm and hopefully share some natural ways of farming along the way (as we learn too).