This message is from: Mary Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This message is from: Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > At 08:34 AM 2/27/99 -0500, you wrote: > >This message is from: "Mike May, Registrar NFHR" look back > >to where they came from - Norway that you won't find many breeders there > >that are putting 10 - 20 foals on the ground a year either. Most are the 1 > >or 2 foals a year type of operation. > > I have the imported mare Stella (Stella II in NFHR) who was imported from > Norway in l981 by the Unraus. At the Libby Show in l991 I met Jon Hegdal > of the Norges Fjordhestlag and when he learned I had Stella, he said that > the family that had bred her would like to know about her, what had > happened to her, that most Fjord breeders iin Norway were just small > "back-yard" breeders raising only one or two foals a year and the horses > were like members of the family. Interesting you mention corresponding with Stella's "family" in Norway. When David Klove was here in the US the last time - or maybe the time before, I forget - he told me that Line's Norwegian owner (a very elderly gentleman at the time) would love to hear about her American home. He sent me the man's address when he returned to Norway and I sent the man an update on Line, with pictures. David assured me there would be someone to translate the English for him, as I don't write in Norwegian. It does seem that the Backyard Breeder (so to speak) is alive and well in Norway. After all, the horses there are part of the family and share in the work, as well as the pleasure - as do "family work horses" of all breeds all over the world. We here in America are the "different" ones I'm afraid. Mary == Mary Thurman Raintree Farms [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
