Our Horses
Bloodline: direct descendent of Neubourg and Urbain du Gué, imported from France
Height: 17 hands
Weight: ~1800 lbs. (will likely reach a full ton when full size)
Age: b. March 2023
Coat: Full black, white star on face
Training: Nesquick is a calm, gentle giant. He’s currently being broke to drive and ride by trainers at Westside Training Stables in Arthur, Illinois. He’ll be fully trained by breeding season.
Services: Will offer frozen semen and live coverage here in Illinois.
We have multiple mares whose foals will be posted for sale when they reach 6 months. All mares are trained to drive at reputable training facilities and are prized for their health, strength, and easy temperaments.
We have one gelding (Nemo) and one foal (Boas) currently. The gelding will be posted for sale after training, as will the foal.
About
our farm
“I want to keep the old-fashioned Percheron horse alive here in the US: 16-17 hands, weight close to a ton, a horse that can work all day, and take you to town at back that night, then work the next day. This is the kind of horse I grew up with. My grandpa had horses like this.”
Overtime, the Percheron breed here has been bred for show. They are taller (18-19 hands), but they aren’t as muscular, and their bones aren’t as strong either.
So, we’ve gone back to France, where these horses are still bred for work, to find old-style stallions. That is the home of the breed, and that’s the line we need to reintegrate into the American lines.
And we’ve carefully bred strong mares here, aiming for those same characteristics.
So, if you share our mission to bring back the strong Percheron line of draft horses here in the U.S., learn more about our herd.