This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Kim and welcome. If you are buying fjords or other small or warmblood horses always ask re their feeding habits. I have two "easy keepers" something your big horse was not. I have watched people starve their new regular horses after having owned "easy keepers". And vice versa I have watched people who had regular eaters founder their new "easy keepers" through lack of knowledge. For this reason when you are planning your pastures have at least a small area where a horse can be contained without grazing. Here in northwest Washington we have to be careful as the new grass comes on as it is quite rich and sets a horse who may be founder prone to founder quickly. This has already started with the new grass much earlier this year. Global warming I presume.
Muzzles also work if they restrict the amount of grass and this way the horse is allowed to be with the others and moving about. Just a thought. Jean Jean Gayle Aberdeen, WA [Authoress of "The Colonel's Daughter" Occupied Germany 1946 TO 1949 ] http://www.techline.com/~jgayle Barnes & Noble Book Stores
