Museum

BerryBrook Ox Supply

Tim & Wendy Huppe

458 Meaderboro Rd Farmington, NH 03835.

603-335-4475

Museums, Living History and Working Farms

Here at BerryBrook Ox Supply, we seize every opportunity to promote the use of working steers and oxen. Much like the resurgence of draft horse use and ownership beginning in the late 1970’s, we are seeing a similar movement toward the use and ownership of working steers and oxen.

Museums and livings history farms have kept oxen for many years to demonstrate how the settlers and farmers accomplished the ‘heavy’ work in the woods, fields, and moving freight. We have, in the past, are currently and will continue to offer a consulting service to those institutions and locations who are building an oxen-use program.

The same applies for the small farmer that has chosen steers and oxen as a power source on their farm or in their woodlot. On the small farm or in the woodlot, there are many advantages to this unique craft and low-impact power source.

We have the resources to assist you in finding and choosing the pair or single cattle that fit your particular need. We can also supply you with the equipment needed to fulfill your task. If it is teamster training you need, we can either conduct the training at your location or at BerryBrook Farm.

In summary, whether you are looking for a single item or an entire oxen use program, we have the knowledge and resources to fit your need.

	2000 – Durhams, Red & Rusty, with teamster at Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia. Katy trained this team and competed with them for two years. Richard Nicoll, the manager of the Coach & Livestock Dept., visited us in late summer of 2000. He purchased Red & Rusty for Colonial Williamsburg. Together with half brothers, Emmet & Gage (Durhams trained by Ethan Fall of Freedom, NH), they are the resident oxen power.

	Dec.2002 – Steve Sauder, Alyson Huppe, Briggs & Stratton, Arlan Beck. Alyson spent ten months training a pair of Durham steers for the Sauder Village Museum of Archbold, Ohio. This pair of calves came to Alyson at several months of age. They had no prior training. After many hours of training, dozens of new experiences, and a few fairs, Alyson produced a wonderfully handy pair of cattle. Brings & Stratton are now ox handy. They are working the fields and impressing the crowds at Sauder Village.