This message is from: "John Rooker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vili, our one and only Fjord, just had two wolf teeth removed a week ago.
*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 9/4/02 at 11:09 PM Cheryl Beillard wrote: >This message is from: "Cheryl Beillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Hi all .. I have a question for everyone regarding the prevalence of wolf >teeth >in the fjord population. I have just had the vet check two horses (2 and >3 yr >old mares) and both have small wolf teeth erupting which I will have pulled >before they are started this fall in their driving program. This is the >3rd >fjord (of 7) which have had these teeth and my vet seems to think that >this is a >high percentage? So I'm wondering what the general experience has been >among >the several hundred fjord owners/breeders on the List? Do you check, and >how >often have you found your horses to have them. And do you have them >removed. >Neither of the two trainers I use will accept a horse with wolf teeth .. > >re the fall coats .. of my 6, one 2 yr old and this year's foal, have both >started to get their winter coats .. the others remain smooth and glossy. >It >would be interesting to know if they follow the same pattern, ie early or >late, >in shedding or growing coats, from year to year. > >One other minor brag, for the breed as a whole, .. the same foal -- which >Barb >Jones and I have agreed to name Julie's Yggdrasil (Flotren x Bragda) - 4 >mths, >had to undergo vaccinations and a Coggins test this morning, for which he >stood >quite calmy (albeit with a bucket o of grain under his nose and someone >rubbing >his back) .. and the vet said she didn't believe that any other breed >could be >so easy to work with and so calm in response to this type of stress .. >most of >the babies she sees fly all over the stall at the first jab .. this boy >has all >of Bragda's spirit and then some, but clearly an equally strong does of >common >sense and trust in us .. we were so proud of him and I know that if Julie >were >up to reading the List, she'd be proud of him too. Watch out world, this >is >going to be one nice horse when he grows up!
