Sentence examples for working oxen from inspiring English sources

Males retained for beef production are usually castrated to make them more docile on the range or in feedlots; with males intended for use as working oxen or bullocks, castration is practiced to make them more tractable at work.

The idea of sustainability runs so deep that instead of machines fueled by diesel, a pair of working oxen have tilled the fields for the better part of a decade, a rare evocation of a New England agricultural tradition.

Tomorrow and Sunday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Monday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Tickets, $6 $44 for 62+ tomorrow only; free for those under 12. Draft horse shows, working oxen; horse, pony and oxen pulls, wood chopping contest, stage entertainment, produce, flowers, art, crafts, plants, trees, needlework, midway, machinery, cattle, goats, swine, sheep, rabbits, men's baking contest.

Despite his girly name, 30-year-old Alison is a veritable man mountain, with the wingspan of a golden eagle and the deltoids of a working ox.

A working ox named Lou, who in recent weeks became arguably his species' most prominent representative, died on Sunday in pastoral Vermont, euthanized after his impending slaughter stirred a face-off between sustainable farmers in the state and animal rights advocates from around the world.

Under billboards in Bombay touting the latest cellphones, credit cards and insurance policies marketed to India's new yuppies, the old India endures: stray dogs hover as men dig through piles of trash, vendors at filthy roadside stalls sell glasses of sugarcane juice for a penny, men working like oxen push ­10-­foot-­long wooden carts stacked high with building materials through city streets.

They work like oxen and drink like camels, and they come from exotic-sounding places like Babylon and Ivory Coast and Sierra Madre.

As she grew older and stronger, she was assigned to field and forest work, driving oxen, plowing, and hauling logs.

(The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, who made sure that the boys worked like oxen during Beatlemania, also booked a now-forgotten Christmas-themed stage show.

Cimon urged compliance, comparing Athens and Sparta to a yoke of oxen working together for the good of Greece.

The youngest of nine children, Contreras was working with the oxen by the time he was 7, helping his father in the fields.