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Mingote Calderón, José Luis: Yokes for three cows: a vanished technique for breaking in cattle in La Sierra Norte of Madrid
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J. L. MINGOTE CALDERON
Fig. 12. Yoke for three cows from Cinco Villas (Madrid). Length 185 cm. □ Joch fur drei Ktihe, aus Cinco
Villas (Madrid). Lange: 185 cm.
trained to pull at both sides as it is more con-
venient for owners. It is important to con-
sider that in a case when one has to borrow a
cow (eg. due to illness of one’s own animals)
it would be easier to place the animal bor-
rowed at its commonest side leaving the own-
er’s cow at the other since it is used to both
(Aoslos). This would also allow the changing
of position of the animal according to its
strength and to the task they were given. In
mountainous areas this ability must be borne
in mind since most trackways and fields are
usually unlevelled and therefore the team of
animals will never be balanced. In spite of
animals being trained to pull at both sides
there were also cases were the animal occu-
pied the same position due either to its patic-
ular characteristics or to other causes. These
cows were commonly known as camelleras
from the use of just one camellaN
Finally, it should be noted that in the Sierra
Norte of Madrid ox shoes were only worn by
the animal team. The fact of being tamed does
not imply, on its own, the use of ox shoes,
since the animal will not wear them until be-
coming a draught animal. There are also ex-
ceptions (Fig. 11) At some villages heifers will
wear ox shoes, callos, even before being bro-
ken in but only in those cases where animals
were going to be broken in during threshing.
The reason for that is that threshing damages
animals’ legs, laparva come macho lapezuna.
There is a wide range of possibilities regard-
ing ox shoeing though the commonest prac-
tice consisted in shoeing just the front legs
and the outer side of the back ones. In La
Acebeda where not everybody owned carts
this would only apply to those teams which
drew carts and within them only ploughing
cows were shod. At Pradena del Rincon it
became a common practice only after the
Civil War (1936-1939).
A yoke for three cows at La Sierra Norte of
Madrid
The above data reflect a vanished method
though some heifers are occasionally still
broken in that way.19 These are personal ex-
J. L. MINGOTE CALDERON
Fig. 12. Yoke for three cows from Cinco Villas (Madrid). Length 185 cm. □ Joch fur drei Ktihe, aus Cinco
Villas (Madrid). Lange: 185 cm.
trained to pull at both sides as it is more con-
venient for owners. It is important to con-
sider that in a case when one has to borrow a
cow (eg. due to illness of one’s own animals)
it would be easier to place the animal bor-
rowed at its commonest side leaving the own-
er’s cow at the other since it is used to both
(Aoslos). This would also allow the changing
of position of the animal according to its
strength and to the task they were given. In
mountainous areas this ability must be borne
in mind since most trackways and fields are
usually unlevelled and therefore the team of
animals will never be balanced. In spite of
animals being trained to pull at both sides
there were also cases were the animal occu-
pied the same position due either to its patic-
ular characteristics or to other causes. These
cows were commonly known as camelleras
from the use of just one camellaN
Finally, it should be noted that in the Sierra
Norte of Madrid ox shoes were only worn by
the animal team. The fact of being tamed does
not imply, on its own, the use of ox shoes,
since the animal will not wear them until be-
coming a draught animal. There are also ex-
ceptions (Fig. 11) At some villages heifers will
wear ox shoes, callos, even before being bro-
ken in but only in those cases where animals
were going to be broken in during threshing.
The reason for that is that threshing damages
animals’ legs, laparva come macho lapezuna.
There is a wide range of possibilities regard-
ing ox shoeing though the commonest prac-
tice consisted in shoeing just the front legs
and the outer side of the back ones. In La
Acebeda where not everybody owned carts
this would only apply to those teams which
drew carts and within them only ploughing
cows were shod. At Pradena del Rincon it
became a common practice only after the
Civil War (1936-1939).
A yoke for three cows at La Sierra Norte of
Madrid
The above data reflect a vanished method
though some heifers are occasionally still
broken in that way.19 These are personal ex-