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horses and they say ‘Good lord! What do they eat? They’re so huge!’ Jackie laughed. “They’re like me. I can walk down the aisle at a grocery store and put on pounds. They can come through the winter in good shape on pasture,” she said. “They do very well on a lot less than other horses.” Jackie Estes can trot out all the arguments for using draft horses in today’s farming operations but practicality isn’t the only reason why she has a born full of Percherons. Jackie just plain loves horses.
“I get along better with horses than with most people. I’m usually more comfortable with horses,” she admitted. She easily handles the five tons or so of horseflesh in her stable, totally unfazed by massive hoofs that could flatten her feet into pancakes and never even know they’d stepped on anything.
At the sound of her voice, the big heads swing around in their stalls with ears cocked to catch the greetings she gives to each horse. Jackie talks about the animals almost as if they were human.
Flapjack, the two-year-old gelding is the “most dimwitted” horse she’s ever worked with, according to Jackie. “The traces hit him on the legs and he’s ready to run all the way to Culpeper! I’d dearly love to unload him—he’d make a good farm-type horse—but he's
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