This message is from: Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have an old video taken by Erik Utheim showing stallions in all over Europe. One in Sweden that he videoed is as dark as a Bay, with a very dark mane and tail bordered by dark greyish hairs instead of white. I will have to find this old video and look up the name of this stallion. He is a beautiful horse, looks very much a purebred Fjord in every other way and has light colored offspring.
On another old video, of an evaluation in 1987 with Bob VanBon and Dave Klove, held in New England, there is a gelding shown with is very dark with the dark markings on the shoulder and very little whit is any in the mane and tail. I will try to look at these again and see if I can get the name of these horses. Jean in Fairbanks, Alaska clear and zero degrees. We need SNOW for insulation or all our underground pipes will freeze! At 10:55 AM 11/12/2005 -0800, you wrote: >This message is from: Dagrun Aarsten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >On Nov 12, 2005, at 7:07 AM, Lori Albrough wrote: > >>But Dagrun, look at his pedigree. By the elite stallion Fjelljon >>http://fjordstudbook.com/h-fjeljon.htm (bred, born and approved in >>Norway) out of the elite mare Gaea who is by the Danish stallion >>Hjerter Knaegt and out of the elite mare Asta. Since Holland does >>DNA testing wouldn't his pedigree be without doubt? > >Hi Lori, > >I was suspecting that some neighbor's stallion had been sneaking in >during the days of the dam being bred to Fjelljon, but if they do DNA >testing that must be out of the question. Hm. Now I'm getting >interested. He really is not a fjord color. I agree that some fjords >have sparkling white guard hairs while some have more of a light tan >color, but never brown. > >Would we be able to find a picture of Gaea the dam? I'm curious now. > >If he really is a pure fjord, this is a very interesting case and is >worth studying. I am still skeptical since he looks exactly like >crosses I have seen, but I am hoping I am wrong - maybe all the genes >suddenly combined to recreate the darker color fjords from the old >days (there are records in Norway of black and brown fjords). >Wouldn't that be cool. > >Dagrun
