2025 DAPFD
October 3rd-5th!
The DAPNet Board of Directors and our awesome volunteers are busy planning the 2025 DAPFD extravaganza. Full schedule and registration will be live soon, but here’s a sneak peak at our 2025 Field Days art designed by Leslie Sims on the official poster. Keep reading below for a summary of what we have planned!
Friday October 3rd - (8am-5pm) All day intensive workshops - registration will include lunch and dinner. The whole day is focused on one topic. We have 6 intensives this year - old favorites and also 2 new offerings!
1) Oxen basics
2) Draft horse basics
3) Forestry with draft animals
4) Farming with draft animals
5) Build an ox cart in a day!
6) Large Animal Emergency Rescue and Preparedness taught by Vicki Schmidt (here is Vicki’s DAPChat on this topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjxNDpQpgvI)
Saturday October 4th -(9am-5pm) Lunch and dinner are included with registration. All day we will be working with animals in the woods and in the fields. We also have 90 minute long sessions on a variety of topics including hoof care for horses and oxen, large animal rescue, purchasing your first draft horse, making yokes and fitting harnesses, chainsaw repair and maintenance, equine dentistry, and activities for young people including building a simple stone boat and 4H kids giving demonstrations.
In the evening there will be dinner and our fundraising auction.
Sunday October 5th -(7am-noon) Sunday starts with our teamster breakfast (by donation, all are welcome!) and then the Draft Animal Power Network Annual Meeting, followed by the equipment repair cafe, a demonstration on hitching multiple horses and oxen (although not to each other), making felt with draft animals, and an obstacle course for everyone from beginners to experts.
Stay tuned, full schedule and registration coming soon!
Photo Credits: Carole Wiley
