This message is from: Michele Noonan <fjordl...@hotmail.com> It's been a crazy year for us at Wild Hair Ranch and unfortunately a year of firsts, both good and bad
The recent good news is the birth of a long awaited filly. WHR Beyla Dam: Two Rivers Kare and the filly's Sire: MVF Erlend. We chose her name from Norse Mythology. She was an elf servant of Freyr. She is beautiful! she has the prettiest face of any filly we have ever had and a keeper for sure! She gave us a little scare though. We tested her antibody levels and they weren't as high as they should have been. Also a first for us! Of course not low enough to be treated, but enough to make us paranoid. Because of this and because a weird vaccination resistant respiratory virus is going around Western Montana, we have decided to quarantine the ranch from any horses coming and going, just until Beyla is 2mths old and develops her own antibodies. We aren't taking any chances.. The only thing leaving the ranch are sold horses not coming back! We cancelled our plans for spring shows and told our friends no trail rides. The sad note is that after 10 years of foals here at our place we for the first time, lost one. We were very sad to lose a filly out of Vies Vilde and sired by Tico There was nothing we could have done, it was just one of those things. The placenta didn't look right, the water bag didn't look right and she wasn't right. The mare looks great and I think she knew before we did. She never went through any serious emotional or physical problems. We are hoping to try again as we know this mare has had great offspring in the past. Our mares were both in great health and have had all their shots and supplements and our vet said, it was just our turn. I like it when I can prevent things and have to understand sometimes I can't. Dan and Solvi have been such a tremendous help to us in the last year, offering to breed a mare for us to Tico and leasing us their wonderful mare Vies Vilde. We are going to get a TICO baby yet!!! After losing our wonderful young stallion Knutsen Fjord's Soren in July last year (EPM) we have just had a rough 12 months. We did purchase his full brother OFI Skogen from Dan and Solvi Watanabe and he is turning out to be a beautiful two year old stallion. We still have 4 very nice yearling geldings for sale. Our red dun Kris (out of Two Rivers Kare and WHR Elsker) and two brown duns Sired by Anvil's Morgen, Dam's Britta I and Freya II) and one more brown dun Sired by WH Stone and Norway View Gina. The brown duns are priced at $1000 and Kris (who is the biggest by far) is $1500. Selling one of them would help pay the vet bill for sure! We are hoping to update our website soon, I have been having some technical difficulties. HAHA. I am sure it's on my part and not the computer or server. www.Montanafjords.com Michele Noonan Wild Hair Ranch Stevensville, MT _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial _Storage1_052009 Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw Classified Ads: http://tinyurl.com/5b5g2f
