This message is from: "Lois Berenyi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks to all of you who sent or posted photos of long manes in all their glory. My Fjord mare is boarded in a hunter/jumper/event barn where most of her stablemates are 17 hand warmbloods. It turns out she is the favorite and I think it's because she's half the size of the others and is "just different" but there is quite a curiousity about her and most long-time horse owners there have never seen a Fjord in the flesh. Most of the riders are older women and some have looked quite enviously at her wide back that is only 65 inches off the ground.
I've printed out most of the photos and will put them up in the barn kitchen for comments. It should be interesting to hear what non-fjordies think. From my own perspective it appears that the white and yellow duns probably "wear" long hair better than the darker duns do. In some of the photos the longer mane made the neck appear thinner and longer whereas I think sometimes the arched cropped mane makes some Fjords look too thick through the neck. Of course some of the Fjords could have naturally thinner or thicker necks regardless of mane length but it's possible the length of the mane could create an illusion one way or the other. I wonder if long hair would make me look thinner or just "messy"?? Thanks again Lois in coastal NC where it's cool enough for the reptiles to go underground
