This message is from: Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Mike, What did they look like, and were the half-breeds then used for >breeding? And where/when did this take place?
There is a pair of Arab/Fjord crossbreds on the Mischka farms Driving Clendar, July picture. "Neil Trenholme of Armstrong, BC drives his mother-daughter pair of Arab/Fjord crossbreds." A woman here in Fairbanks has a Fjord/quarterhorse cross. This woman is from Norway, but insists that the cross makes for a lighter horse...Unfortunately she overfeeds this mare and the mare is grossly obese. Go figure. (I am always getting into arguments with her about feeding, fjords, etc...hopeless LOL) She bought this horse in Whitehorse, YT, where a man was breeding what he called "Cherry Fjords", using a Fjord stallion on quarterhorse mares. "Cherry" referred to the reddish dun color of the half fjords. She bred this half fjord to a dun quarter horse stallion and the result was another dun which looked a lot like a fjord in color. However, temperment was not fjordlike. Yes, most fjord crosses look very much like fjords in color as the dun factor is dominant. With the computer technology, etc. we have today, anybody can forge a registration certificate, pedigree, etc. I know a guy who breeds Belgians: He bragged he could produce a believable registration certificate for any horse. AND he did that for one of his foals, when the gal who bought it insisted on getting it registered. Your best protection when buying a registered fjord is to know the seller, check the registration papers, run a check on the NFHR pedigree search or the Canadian Livestock Records CFHA data site, and if necessary, look at the DNA typing. I think if a seller was trying to put one over on you, he would be long gone before you got to the DNA question. There are a lot of good honest Fjord breeders in both the US and Canada, just ask around. Jean in Fairbanks, Alaska, Still light out at 5:00 PM! ************************************************************ Jean Ernest Fairbanks, Alaska mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
