This message is from: Rovena Kessinger <ro_k...@yahoo.com>
Saskia! You made it! ;-) Saskia has helped me immensely. Her understanding of horses and ability to communicate her knowledge in a usable way to a complete newbie like me is amazing. We are going to ride our fjords together someday. :) --- On Wed, 11/28/12, ron&saskia <rbd...@accesscomm.ca> wrote: From: ron&saskia <rbd...@accesscomm.ca> Subject: Hello from Canada To: fjordhorse-dig...@angus.mystery.com Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2012, 8:53 PM This message is from: "ron&saskia" <rbd...@accesscomm.ca> Hi everyone, I just want to introduce myself. My name is Saskia, I live in Saskatchewan, and I own 2 horses. One is a 7 year old Fjord horse mare, Freya , and the other one is Flicka, a pony mare of almost 9 years old, that looks like a New Foundland pony. I bought Flicka green broke 6 years ago, and sheâs my riding horse since then. Sheâs a sweetheart and very reliable. I bought Freya, my fjord horse untrained. In fact she was never handled. The only thing that was done with her was chasing her into a chute 2 times a year, where she would be tied up so they could shave her mane. She was never touched by a farrier so her feet were very neglected. When I got her, she was a very scared mare, didnât trust people. But I worked almost daily with her and won her trust. It took me 6 months to get her ready for a farrier so he could take care of her (cow) feet. So in a way you can say sheâs a rescue horse. Freya has a bolting problem, developed after I send her to a regular trainer that I thought was a good trainer. She started to bolt during the 5 weeks in training, probably caused by too much pressure and the pain of a bit, and when she came back home, she was changed from a calm horse into this nervous horse that thought she had to run all the time. On our 3rd ride she bolted on me and jumped my wire fence. I fell off and lucky got only hurt a little, Freya was ok. I left her in pasture for 6 weeks after that, then re-trained her with the courses of Leslie Pavlich. Since then she never bolted on me again and I could ride her again in a calm walk and since last summer we are even going into trot without running off. Plus I never put a bit in her mouth again. I ride her in a bitless bridle. We take little steps but thatâs ok. Iâm not in a rush. I just enjoy our journey. I got to this list because of Rovena, who owns a mule and a fjord horse. I think itâs great to have contact with other fjord horse owners and exchange our experiences with our beautiful fluffy equines. Saskia Dockrill Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw FH_L Shirts: http://tinyurl.com/8yky94l Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw FH_L Shirts: http://tinyurl.com/8yky94l
