This message is from: Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I wonder about this, too..Maybe they feel more important saying they have a less common breed. I know that one lady here bought a 1/4 fjord 3/4 quarterhorse who had some Fjord coloring but was a darker red brown. I knew the breeding of this horse, had see her dam, 1/2 Fjord,1/2 Quarter horse, who was bred to a red dun quarterhorse stallion to produce this "quarter Fjord". So why did she INSIST on calling this mare a "FJORD"? She was mostly quarterhorse! When I kept saying this was only 1/4 Fjord, she got pissed. "Quarter-Fjord" would have been very accurate!
The Quarterhorse folks wouldn't allow this horse to compete as a quarterhorse either. Jean in Fairbanks, ALaska +10F >I saw that although they had the typical fjord hair cut, these two "fjord" >geldings were so dark they look more bay than dun. I commented on this, and >asked who she was getting them from. She told me she was buying them from [So >and So], a guy that I just happen to know breeds crosses, and that "Oh, well, >their mother was a Quarter horse". > >This is the kind of thing that puts me (and I assume a lot of others) off so >much about the whole crossbreeding issue. Why, for goodness sake, didn't she >just say she was getting Fjord & Quarter Crosses? ************************************************************ Jean Ernest Fairbanks, Alaska mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
