This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Just wanted to let everyone know that we are planning a trip to the midwest and then onto Dallas, TX to deliver horses and carriages we have sold. We will be taking with us a couple of geldings that are not as yet sold. We hope to be in the Green Bay, Wisc. area in about two weeks and will have these geldings available for people to look at and try out at an arena there or elsewhere along the way if that works out better for you. These four year old geldings are trained to ride and drive, single as well as pair. If someone is interested email me and I can send pictures and more info on them and set up dates for viewing. We will be making various stops along the way so if it works out and you are looking for a trained gelding let us know. We have not had any geldings since the 97 foal crop so once these three and four years are sold it will be quite awhile before we have any more trained geldings for sale. Do have a number of fillies to sell however and once the geldings are all sold will work on the mares that have been raising babies and the young fillies.
It has been interesting reading about the opinions and comments of Mules and Fjords. We had a pair of mules (actually a mule and a hinny) we traded Joe and Meg Hempel out of a few years back. Our summers here can be very hot and dry. Orville was mowing oat hay and using the Fjords, switching teams every two hours. The kids and I would have the next pair ready to go and give showers and clean up the ones coming back in before they got their water, feed and rest until it was their turn again. This worked real well until it got really hot. The mules came home for water in the early afternoon on one of these hot buggy days and Orville was bringing another team in to switch. He grabbed a couple of halters from the barn and caught Polly and Belle, had them harnessed and out in the field mowing again. The Fjords were having a hard time with the deer flies biting them and Orville had been going to call it a day when the mules made the mistake of coming home. He worked the next couple of hours with the big flies chewing on the mules and they didn't even let on they knew the flies were hungary. That was when Orville realized why Mules are so prized for field work in the south with the hot, muggy, buggy days they have down there . As good as Fjords are there are occasions when a mule is better. Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses
