This message is from: "Dagrun Aarsten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Jean,
I witt try to send a longer email later...sitting just now in a hotel room in Baltimore (nice place - I'm here with work) and going out for dinner in 5 min. I'll try to send a little "fjord report" from Norway soon. It's true that most of them are kept in a stall in winter, but most places have big turnout facilities and they spend most of the day out in the cold. There is a big difference between fjords who are kept at farms for some light work but mostly for "decoration" - and the active fjords in training and competition. I'll write more later. I'm by no means a fjord expert, but of course I've seen plenty of them. Didn't really start appreciating fjords until the summer of 99 - but now I'm hooked! Bye for now, Dagrun -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jean Ernest Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 9:09 PM To: fjordhorse@angus.mystery.com Subject: Re: Shipping costs from Norway? This message is from: Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Dagrun, I have been meaning to ask you to describe how fjords are stabled and cared for in Norway. It is interesting to find out that they are kept inside a barn for most of the winter. Can you give us some details of the general horsekeeping practices (especially for fjords) in Norway? Here in Fairbanks, Alaska, my Fjords do so well in the winter just being outside with a run-in shelter. I have thought that would be the healthiest..however they of course grow a tremndously thick coat to deal with the extreme cold. Do folks in Norway turn their fjords out for exercise in the winter, and do they work them very much in the winter? Give us some details, if you can, please. It would be so interesting. I believe my fjords do so well here in Fairbanks because it is "dry" in the cold with very little wind when it is extremely cold., while in places where there is a lot of rain in the winter the fjords would need to be stabled. I am looking forward to your comments, Jean in Fairbanks, Alaska, where there is hope that summer will return, after 5 days of rain and cold temps At 08:43 PM 7/8/2001 -0700, you wrote: >This message is from: "Dagrun Aarsten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Hi all, > >it's the Norwegian girl in San Jose again... > ************************************************************ Jean Ernest Fairbanks, Alaska mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
