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. I later got a letter from the young daughter of the family who had raised Stella, asking about her, how she was used, etc. I sent her pictures and details of Stella's Life with me and learned about Stella's Norwegian family. I thought this was pretty neat. I hope that Fjords can remain a "family enterprise" here in the US but feel that we should be very selective about Stallions. Only the exceptional horse should remain Stallions. It IS a real problem living up here in Alaska, with only one Stallion in the whole state that I know of, and I had a bad experience with AI, spending a lot of money with no results. I won't breed my young mare, Anvil's Adel (Stella's granddaughter by the way) until I have a buyer for the foal (or I need another horse :-)], and I'll probably try AI again, instead of breeding to the "local" Stallion, as he is just not quite as good as I'd like. (However he is producing some very nice looking offspring so I may reconsider) Let's be choosy about our Stallions, but don't underrate the people who only breed one or two mares occasionally! Jean in Fairbanks, Alaska, -4F this morning but going to be sunny and +10. Light already before 8:00 AM and almost ten hors daylight! Great weather for ice carving and dog sledding!> > >======================================================= > >Norwegian Fjord Horse Registry >Mike May, Registrar >Voice 716-872-4114 >FAX 716-787-0497 > >http://www.nfhr.com >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ************************************************************ Jean Ernest Fairbanks, Alaska [EMAIL PROTECTED]
