I've had several conversations about pasturing the ponies with the other girl I know who bought an Icelandic from Niels West. All his Icelandics were on beautiful large rolling grass-covered hills. Here in Southern Oregon, their Lina had to be pulled off grass several times this summer because she was really blimping up. Our two mares are on what is essentially a dry lot. We both wonder how the horses could maintain a healthy weight at the breeder's and not here. Maybe it's true that if grass is all they ever experience, they only eat what they need. It would scare me, however.
Nancy
