This comprehensive five-day class creates skills in driving, training, and yoking in a sequence of hands-on experiences. Enjoy well-trained oxen responding to your voice commands. Learn to select, team, and care for oxen. Use low-stress training to teach calves. Drive teams hitched to various loads and practice field tasks. Make this the outstanding experience of your year! Most days, activities can last beyond 5:30 p.m.

Students will also learn how to make a yoke using hand tools. added charge for yokes with a larger than 6” bow width) Email [email protected] ahead of the class with your preferred bow width.

Rob Collins is a full-time public school teacher and former president of the Midwest Ox Drovers Association. Rob’s experience with high school students and with his own oxen make him the perfect teacher for anyone interested in getting into working with these beautiful animals. Students are invited to attend MODA Sat-Sun after class.

• Sunday-Thursday, June 16-20 2024

• 9 am-5 pm

• 625.00 includes Lunch

• Instructors: Rob Collins and Ric Eshuis

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