This message is from: Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Well I had an "up front and personal" confrontation with the mother moose. I didn't know they were around, was carrying a big black sack of garbage out to the garage when suddenly there was the moose, between me and the house! The horses have gotten so used to them they didn't warn me by rushing around. I yelled, the moose started to come toward me but I held the big black garbage sack in front of me and screeched at it! she went back of the garage, gone I thought but when I went on down to feed the horses she was back, looking for her calf who was in the hay barn (next to the garage)
They actually didn't seem that agressive and certainly are used to people, my banging and waving buckets didn't faze them. I know, however, that they can be dangerous. A man was killed down in Anchorage a couple years ago at the U of A campus, but that moose had been harassed. I really do enjoy seeing them so close, but would feel better if they were a bit more scared of me! And din't get in the hay barn( squeeze in between the pick-up and the wall of the barn.) A friend had a cow and calf moose take up residence in her hay barn and wouldn't let her in to get hay. Had her "trapped" in the barn one day. This winter is a very easy winter, but they are still coming around to the hay. On Fjord stuff, my two big geldings take x-large halters, and warmblood size english bridles, altho the cheekpieces are really too long. They need the larger brow band and throatlatch, etc. Bjorken's back isn't all that broad, but he is hard to fit due to his large shoulders. The Ortho-Flex saddles have worked best for me. The two mares take "large" halters. My Fjords range from 14-2 to 15-2 Jean in Fairbanks, Alaska, where the temperature is rising (+5) because we sent that cold air mass down to the "lower 48" (sorry Mary!) ****************************************************************** Jean Ernest Fairbanks, Alaska [EMAIL PROTECTED]
