A team of Percheron horses strut their stuff at a draft horse show. (Photo by Lillian Shupe | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Every year for the past 35 years the middle of January has ...

The big Percheron draft horse teams at Young Living Essential Oil’s Lavender Farm were sparked by an equally big dream. Upon seeing the gentle giants perform at Colorado’s Big Thunder Draft Horse Show ...

Percherons are notable for their size. The average Percheron horse size is 16 to 17 hands (64 to 68 inches) high at the withers, and they typically weigh 1,900 to 2,100 pounds. Compare this to ...

Picture the kind of farmer who relies on horses, not a tractor, to plow his fields, and your mind’s eye probably conjures a conservative Amish gentleman or some Colonial Williamsburg curator in full ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. Every year for the past 34 years the middle of January has been a very important time for Draft Horse Breeders up and down the east coast and into the mid states. This is the time for ...

PERU – Parker Shinn knows a little something about Percheron draft horses. After all, he’s been raising and breeding them for nearly 50 years on his 80-acre farm in southern Miami County, just south ...