This message is from: Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If you are suggesting that registered Canadian Fjords have draft blood in them you are very wrong. While the CFHA does not kick out breeders who cross breed or de-register fjords used for cross breeding, they definitely do not approve of cross breeding and cross breds can NOT be registered. Blood typing was mandated for breeding stock ever since I started with my Fjords at least (l987), and now DNA typing is required.
When I got my fjords, they were registered in Canada in the CFHA and that asociation had complete studbooks available listing all the registered frjords in the CFHA was started. The NFHR had nothing to offer in that way, no data base was available, no way for the ordinary member to trace lineages, etc. So I stuck with the CFHA, although I did join NFHR and did register my mare Stella with them, mainly so I could be a voting member. Now that the NFHR has grown and matured and has made the pedigree data available, I probably will register my young mare with NFHR also. Yes there are crossbred Fjords in Canada, but not registered. The CFHA registered fjords are pure fjords, AND some come from the old bloodlines of draftier types as that was what was sought after for logging and farm work. The early NFHR members, I think, were mostly on the East coast and likely were more into the lighter riding types and so some got the Mistaken idea that Canadian and Western Fjords were not quite as "pure" as their recently imported stock. BTW, WHERE did you "definitely hear" of the Canadian use of draft horses, etc? What is your source? Just curious. Jean in sunny Fairbanks, Alaska, beutiful with 8" fresh snow. > I've definitely heard of the Canadian >use of draft horses to increase the size of the Fjord, but I hadn't heard of >the Arab influence. ************************************************************ Jean Ernest Fairbanks, Alaska mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
