[HN Gopher] For Centuries, English Bakers' Biggest Customers Wer...
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       For Centuries, English Bakers' Biggest Customers Were Horses
        
       Author : pepys
       Score  : 46 points
       Date   : 2022-07-26 21:33 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | madaxe_again wrote:
       | They still make it here in our very rural corner of Portugal,
       | although it's more for the donkeys - they're used as beasts of
       | burden still, usually for olives in more remote or inaccessible
       | groves - some are on really steep hill slopes, impossible for
       | mechanisation. It's for the dogs, too. Not 100% sure of the
       | recipe but it's rye, olive leaves and leftovers from pressing,
       | and I think oat bran - stuff smells awful and has the density of
       | a brick, but keeps for ages and makes for a handy meal on the
       | hoof.
        
         | OnlyMortal wrote:
         | Now I'm interested...
        
           | gus_massa wrote:
           | I agree.
           | 
           | @GP: Photos? A press article? More details? Why donkeys and
           | not mules?
        
             | googlryas wrote:
             | Mules are (generally) infertile. They're viewed as better
             | beasts of burden than donkeys, but not if you need to keep
             | creating them out of separate horse/donkey populations.
        
         | daniel-cussen wrote:
         | Korea [North Korea] made food for donkeys too, their salvation
         | from mechanization and therefore depending on imports America
         | could deprive them of. Donkeys? America couldn't deprive them
         | of.
         | 
         | Donkeys?
         | 
         | Loyal.
        
       | jmercouris wrote:
       | It's very interesting that they made bread for horses even! It is
       | pre digested, so that does help!
        
       | jewel wrote:
       | The article makes me wonder what the maximum range for a horse
       | would be if carrying its own meals, never grazing, but drinking
       | water along the way as needed.
       | 
       | Seems like it'd sort of be like the rocket equation, but more
       | forgiving.
        
         | giraffe_lady wrote:
         | idk if you're joking or what but there was literally on article
         | about exactly this on the front page today.
        
         | gerdesj wrote:
         | Assume a spherical horse ...
         | 
         | OK are we talking a Mustang or a Shire or Clydesdale? Carrying
         | the food or dragging a wagon?
         | 
         | I don't know enough about horses but a heavy horse (Shirehorse,
         | Suffolk Punch or Clydesdale in the UK) can drag quite a decent
         | load. Granddad's Clydesdale "Damson" could make a furrow with a
         | plough all day, back in the day - bloody hard work. Ironically,
         | that was in Devon - Scottish horse in Shire land! He got a
         | Ferguson tractor later but they kept the horses as well.
         | 
         | I think we would run out of UK for a single horse load unless
         | doing the full Land's End to John o'Groats (or trying to cross
         | the Irish Sea) but a bigger land might need a re-fuel or two.
        
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