lump on horses left leg

2013-06-08 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison sr...@xplornet.com Good morning! even though it really isn't as it is raining hard here. I haven't posted in quite a bit. Hubby is working so I went out to do the watering of our two Fjords. Storm went out and stood and then came back in...mine,Peppin drank

Saddle questions

2011-09-06 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison sr...@xplornet.com Hello...I haven't written in for awhile and cannot find an answer in the archives. I, too am having saddle issues. Our boys are round as apples and mutton withers. We cannot keep our saddles tight. I have used a neoprene saddle pad or a reg

Fjord Manes

2009-10-28 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison sr...@xplornet.com Hi...I probably have a dumb question, but here goes.I am thinking of letting my Fjord geldings mane grow out and Randy (hubby) is telling me that his neck might roll with the weight of all that extra hair Is this possible? Do

Re; Stumpers story

2009-09-25 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison sr...@xplornet.com Hi Linda... in defense of Jen... no one is guaranteed a certain number of days or years on this earth...only God knows that. I hang on to my animals too long sometimes...but then again who knows whether it will be 1 year or 10 before

Re: Gjest

2009-09-19 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison sr...@xplornet.com Hi, Don't be too harsh on Eunice. I, too, have gone through having and losing a beloved elderly horse. My little App, mare, Duchess was 32 when we had the vet come out to her for the last time. We knew this day would come, she had

Trail ride

2009-08-17 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison sr...@xplornet.com Hi everyonelong time since I have written in to the list. My hubby (Randy) and I went on a trail ride yesterday. It was the first time I have ridden in two years and other than being led around to give my granddaughters a ride

feeding Fjords and pumpkins

2001-10-22 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Will do! Thanks for the info, it's very helpful. I will tell our boarding managers to feed 1/3 alfalfa and 2/3 (good quality!) oat hay. No, no, no,not oat haythat, in this neck of the woods, is just plain old straw...suitable only

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2001-10-19 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] the one that I would go out to brush when my life needed a dose of the serenity that she seemed to exude. I am so sorry...went through this exact same thing with my old P.O.A. Duchess, last February. We had had her for 25 years and she

spooky horse and Arab pedigree

2001-09-29 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] The old mare marched right straight past it, into her stall---after all, that was Her Barn, so nothing in it would dare hurt her. My husband's gelding (also known as Fjord-with-Arab-Brain) threw his head up, snorted, detoured as far around

Fjords chewing trees and fences

2001-09-28 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] We had fantastic Sugar Maples in our yard, and tapped them in the Spring. Our primary gelding used to watch us, then decided to tap his own tree! LOL...I just have to askwhat did he actually do? Take out a chomp or lick sap out

Saddles

2001-09-27 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] i have been told by our local saddle shop that Big Horn makes a synthetic western saddle that comes in semi, full and extra-wide quarter horse bars (another word for tree) - our saddle shop owner thinks our fjords will take an extra-wide bar

Saddles

2001-09-26 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have sent two messages in to the digest in the past two weeks and for some reason they have not been in the list. I have them in format plainIs something else wrong? Here is the last letter I sent in. Subject: Saddles Hi

Saddles

2001-09-24 Thread Sue Harrison
Hi allI have a questionhave any of you ever used a synthetic Wintec western saddle on your Fjords? I bought one this past summer for my Arab. Shortly thereafter, I emailed the company and was told that these saddles are made for thoroughbreds and might not fit an arab. However, it does

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2001-09-19 Thread Sue Harrison
Hi everyone. I haven't written in a while as my garden was busting at the seams and I have been awfully busy canning, freezing and pickling. I am green with envy reading about you guys and gals getting together for Fjord events. I am s far away from other Fjord owners. I sympathize

getting along

2001-08-17 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message is from: Joel Harman [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are some women who have BAD reactions to estrogen progesterone that are chemically derived. If there were not a need from estrogens derived from pregnant mare urine the ranches would

dna testing

2001-08-06 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes I sit around the office thinking up new ways to torture horses all the time. Dear Mike...I got a great laugh out of your post I can picture you now saying h now what can I think up to do that would torture those Fjord horses now

Spooky horses

2001-08-05 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] . He seemed to get under control with more voice commands than the reins. Once he stopped I got off and walked him back to my house. He was calm by then. I was still a little startled. I asked some friends in town why horses spook from

Re: Stubborn and also funny!

2001-07-24 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Riba is definitely a little stubborn. But between a horse that gets terrified and goes ballistic and one that stands still and refuses to move until she understands what's going on, guess which I choose. Gail in Tucson (I've been called

Blue Seal Vintage Senior horse feed

2001-07-03 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] What can I feed him to improve his weight yet not over burden his system? Would wheat germ oil help? Is bran to hot? Jean Dear Jean.My old mare, Duchess was also losing weight a few years back. The vet told me to feed her Blue Seal

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2001-06-28 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sue! (Desert Storm) Start looking for your farm! It is such a gift to look out back and see the fjords enjoying life to the fullest, heads buried deep in the hay pile or growing grass! Hi to another Susan you have the wrong Sue I CAN

horse flys

2001-06-26 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi...How is everyone making out in the battle of the horse fly? The blasted things were right inside the flyshed chewing away.on the horses...we brought them in and wiped them all over with flysprayand I remember reading in here that good

Horse rescue

2001-06-25 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Glen and Patty The question I wanted to ask all is- does anyone know if there is a Fjord Rescue? Here is a link that I had bookmarked. You might try here.. http://www.crossedsabers.com/notes.htm . Denise.sure hope your friend

Loss of Katrina

2001-06-21 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Suereading about you and the loss of your mare Katrina, reminds me of the many animals I have lost. In the past two years, I have lost Bergan Sinclair (2 1/2 year old Fjord gelding that was struck by a tractor trailor in the wee hours

Does my new Wintec saddle really fit???

2001-06-18 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear friends...you just never know what will be in my lists...that desktop reflections thingy at the top of my last letter for instanceI had been fooling around with stationery and when I got my digest...there it was...Catz stationery

New Wintec saddle

2001-06-17 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catz by Christina's Desktop Reflections (Original art by Braldt Bralds) Dear list.We went out for a short ride the other night. I decided to try out the black saddle that came with Misty. Just as we got in the woods, I shoved or at least

special stirrups

2001-06-13 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] A few days ago, I wrote in about my sore kneeswell Denise Delgado was kind enough to go looking on the internet and came up with thishttp://www.surerider.com/ Has anyone tried these stirrups out? I am very tempted to send for them

boo boo ...email type

2001-06-13 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oops...now I did itsent a message to the digest meant for Carol M. I was sending her some digests that she had missed and just as I clicked send I saw who I was really sending the message to. sorrymy finger slipped. LOL I have

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2001 #171

2001-06-13 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Carol...well I just sent all the digests I have. Happy reading. I started sorting and deleting and then realized I might be deleting something you might be interested in! Let me know what you think of that stirrup site I sent you if you

Aching knees and different saddle needed

2001-06-09 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello everyonewell I went for my first honest to goodness trailride (with others) on Misty, my Arabian mare. She was a little handful for the first little while. I was second (behind hubby) and two other geldings were behind me. Misty

trouble with web links

2001-05-31 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi again...is anyone elso having trouble clicking on the links to photos such as these www.painteasy.com/FjordSale.htm www.painteasy.com/foalForSale.htm www.painteasy.com/JayForSale.htm My pc just sits here. To see things I have to copy

pictures in webshots

2001-05-31 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi again everyone.Remember when one of you mentioned training your horse to stand up on a footstoolwell check out my horse album to see what happened to Storm. LOLI had a good luck angel with me that day!! http

Ear mites

2001-05-26 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello everyoneI was just getting caught up on my mail. I noticed the problem with earmites.this just might be a solution. I have had ear mites in my cats and they would literally go right up the bathroom wall when I applied the stuff

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2001-05-04 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] My condolences on the loss of your Mom, I also lost my Mom last week she was 72 and had emphysema, she was in England and there wasn't time for me to get there before she was gone. Hi to another SueI am very sorry you lost your mom as well

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2001-05-01 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi everyone...I am sorry I did not send condolances on the loss of the two horses. My mum passed away a week ago and I have had a very stressful time. She had Altzimers and was almost 90 years old. She had been in the nursing home

Canola Oil and Blue Seal Sunshine plus

2001-03-26 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello again everyone ...well I have an entirely different topic today. I received an email this morning warning of the dangers to man and beast of consuming a familiar oil...Canola Oil. Rather that put the letter in here, I am just

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2001-03-25 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello againJean and Steve thanks for the worming advice. We have Strongid T but I have never seen Strongid C here. What is it like...a liquid or pellets?? I will have to ask about it to see if it is available here in Canada. What

Wormers

2001-03-23 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi everyone...I was to a meeting with some horse people tonight discussing an up and coming 100 mile trail ride. One of the men there breeds Welsh Cobs He had a filly colic this winter. They did a stool sample and found it full of worms. He

Feeding grain and supplements

2001-03-16 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi everyoneregarding the bad teeth issue.would that have something to do with the amount of mineral available in the hay (from the soil) in different areas? Storm is still getting sweet feed...but now we are feeding less

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2001-02-26 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well actually...no. You need to do the whole formula...with the entire weight of rider, horse and tack combined, and do the formula with the cannon bone measurement. 7 1/2 inches is a smaller cannon bone, but it depends on the other factors

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2001-02-25 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Values near 75 are great, below 75 even better. Values from 75-80 are acceptable. Values over 80 indicate weaker legs and a need to train carefully, especially downhill. Values over 85 suggest you need a horse with more substance

Short fat Fjords

2001-02-24 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sounds like what WE need is a short, fat, bomb-proof Fjord. One big enough to carry us, but not tall enough to dump us! At least you have managed to maintain your sense of humor in spite of the dumping. And you seem determined enough to get

Arabs

2001-02-23 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arabs This message is from: Joel Harman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since we are now bashing arabs anyone remember when they were 14hh short backed, hard hoofed horses that could go 100 mi at a heartbeat? Hi everyone...first, I wish to say thanks

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2001-02-19 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi...it is a sad day here today. My old POA mare, Duchess had to be put to sleep. She was down in her stall this morning and it looked like she had struggled for quite some time to get up. Somehow she had gotten out of her halter which

Fjords growth rate

2001-02-11 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fjords get taller until they are about eight - what happens where in the back and the legs and when, about exactly? Now what does this mean in terms of when to break for saddle? I have read of Fjords being lightly ridden as 2 year olds

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2001-02-05 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are also wary of de-wormers containing Ivermectin, with the support of our vet, and only give it once a year for Bots. We use Strongid and Anthelcide. We also use a Pro-biotic before and after vaccination or worming in recognition

Ponies or horses?

2001-01-31 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] We call them what they are too. We usually refer to them as Draft Ponies. Show me one single sand box including the ones you already mentioned that would put a 14.2 equine or under in a horse catagory, for showing / breeding

Sheding horses

2001-01-28 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now to get back on topic. Last year our horses got super hairy for winter and didn't shed out till late May! This year they didn't grow half the coat as last year, and already it's halfway shed out! Is this just my barn? How are the coats

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2001-01-25 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good morning Thanks Carol and Steve for sending all the digests to me. Goodness, I have been reading them for 2 days now! Love them...thanks to you both. Well, Storm has acquired a taste for dishsoap..so much for that idea. He went

Make mine IVORY (soap that is)

2001-01-23 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello again everyone. Mike...my puter has been in the shop for a week. I missed out on the digests 15 up to and including 20. Is there anyway you can send them to me? Well thank you to whoever mentioned using soap to stop chewing. Storm

Training a colt

2001-01-12 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, the combo of green horse, begining owner, old worn out harness thats much too large for him, while walking on ice, tapping him on the rump to get him started after admitting he nor I knew what we were doing. is risking life

Training a colt

2001-01-10 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, the combo of green horse, begining owner, old worn out harness thats much too large for him, while walking on ice, tapping him on the rump to get him started after admitting he nor I knew what we were doing. is risking life

Driving Storm!

2001-01-07 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well Hi again everybodyI am so excited...I actually drove Storm today. We put part of a harness on him (belly band with rings on top for the reins) and ran a set of driving reins through. Our harness is much too large for him as yet

Leading problem

2001-01-06 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course the now snorty horse thought we were all nuts, and moved away againSWING ! only stopping when the horse stopped. The first time I saw this I was amazed at how fast the horses figured out that if he / she just stood without fussing

The brat

2001-01-04 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] But of course it's important to have the horses in a large field so the brat can escape when the 'schooling' starts That is the problem. Too small a paddock and the older gelding is known for kicking horses out through the fence. When I went

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #339

2001-01-02 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Interesting that many people enjoy both Fjords and Arabs, who couldn't be more opposite horses : ) Yup thats me in a nutshella 9 year old Arab mare, gentle and broken and a 1 1/2 year old Fjord ...shall we say brat gelding?? The mare

horses deaths

2000-12-29 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message is from: Jean Gayle [EMAIL PROTECTED] I saw it Jean but these have gone down so fast, colitis and enteritis are tail swishers at least for a while. Or so I thought. Hard to believe even our stoic beasts would not show signs

Fw: Senility Prayer -it's cute!

2000-12-17 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi...heres another one I thought so cute I had to pass it on. (Sue in N.B. Desert Storm's mom) Subject: Senility Prayer -it's cute! Subject: Senility Prayer God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #324

2000-12-17 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi everyoneAre there answers to the Christmal Carol quiz? I have sent this on and everyone wants to know the proper answers. If they were already in here I must have missed them. (: Have a great day everyone...even tho we

Bloodlines

2000-12-16 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sue: My horse's name is Fair Acres Bergen. Bred by Roger Whitney, Delavan, MN. Sire is Anvil's Jon and Dam is Fair Acres Hannah. Any relation? Bonnie...sounds like a different line...Storm is out of Bergen Sybilla out of Heljo's Solar

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #322

2000-12-14 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tillie and Budyou have my heartfelt sympathy. I went through the same thing a year and a half ago, only my gelding, Bergan Sinclair was struck and killed by a tractor trailor. One never knows how long life in any form will last. Live life

Saddles and heat bumps and colic

2000-12-13 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi everyone...I have a question...are any of you familiar with Professionals choice saddle blankets?...The ones that rattle as if there is that bubble plastic insulation inside? My husband has one and used it under his western saddle while

Re: water....water...

2000-11-27 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi everyone...here is a little ditty to the tune of Cool Water I call it Ode To Storm Here she comes whats this in my pail Its water, water... nice warm water...(water, water) I'll have a sip oh this is delicious ... of.water,water...nice

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #306

2000-11-26 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Holy cow Merek...I live in New Brunswickan hours drive from the Maine and Houlton border...and I never heard tell of this shooting...some coverup eh? The worst that happened here in the past year or two is a man shot a jeepand he

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #305

2000-11-25 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] HI everyone... Storm coliced tonight. Found him lying down on the snow at suppertime. Brought him in the barn and he would not eat. We started walking him and called the vet. The vet turned out to be a new guy originally from

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #295

2000-11-15 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi everyone from N.B. where it never stops raining. Karen:Please send some snow, some snow for Christmas so I can build a big snowman.. It has rained it seems for the past month. The paddock has sticky oozy mud outside the barn

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #292

2000-11-11 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here is a wonderful screensaver.with Fjords in it! http://look.themes.tucows.com/savers/animals.htm Go into screen savers at the side, then animals then animals A - H In there preview Beloved Horses There are a lot of pics in here

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #290

2000-11-08 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here is a poem everyone should enjoy...Cowboy's Guide To Life (Applies to both sexes and not just cowboys!) 1. Don't squat with your spurs on. Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #280

2000-10-28 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear list: I am having a terrible time finding the archives. I typed in http://www.listquest.com and then went into home and garden, pets and animals and then Fjordhorse...I used the username fjordhorse and password fjords_rule. I cannot

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #262

2000-10-06 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have moved my horses from the trainer's where they were to a trainer and facility I prefer. At the old place, my young, usually sweet and mellow Ida rolled under the fence in the night and battered

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #261

2000-10-06 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] our deer jump the yard fence at night and de-leaf the rose bushes by the entrance. I'm told cougar pee is good to prevent that. I want to see the guy that gathers it!!! What you do is rig up a litter pan (get a big one) have a litter

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #251

2000-09-26 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good evening everyone. I am glad you enjoyed the poem When I am old. Well I was just into the archive site and it is great. Like a horsemans bible. I got a great laugh out of a posting by Laurie Pittman in Feb, 99. She described Tor and I

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #247

2000-09-22 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I am Old. I shall wear diamonds And a wide brimmed straw hat With ribbons and flowers on it And I shall spend my social security On white wine and carrots And sit in the alley way of my barn And listen to the horses

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #240

2000-09-13 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] We moved the horses here the first part of August and started seeing bot eggs soon after and I'm still scraping/shaving them off of their legs so don't see how worming them monthly until the bots are gone with the Ivermectin can do anything

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #231

2000-09-03 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Denise - I disagree with the clinician. A 3 y.o. who is doing fine in a full cheek snaffle doesn't need a twisted wire bit! Use of a twisted-wire bit on a sensitive 3 year old mouth would be a travesty, IMHO. What is everyones opinion of a D

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #229

2000-09-01 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] As soon as I can learn how to update my website! I am really retarded when it comes to this computer Hi Gayle: go into www.webshots.comand you can make your own albums for us all to see. It is very easy if you own a scanner

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #224

2000-08-26 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Now don't be against the Arabs 100%. There are still some good ones out there. I love Arabs. I love their sensitivity and passion, the feel of their skin and their beauty. Good evening everyone: WellI did itStorm now has a new

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #222

2000-08-22 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message is from: Jean Gayle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sue I should think cowboy boots force you to put your weight more on your instep which would relieve the heel. Yes, Jean, you are absolutely correct. I was to the hospital to see

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #218

2000-08-20 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] For plantar fascitits, it may help to use a gel pad in your shoes. Avoid walking long distances Hi Krissy: I am on my way tomorrow to see an occupational therapist at the hospital. She is going to try and do something for my Plantia

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #216

2000-08-15 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tish Crippled up and moving in Great Pain and Elphie Big Jump Equine Ahhh Tish. done that, been there,and to think I bought a Fjord so this would not happenoh me oh my...can't wait to hear the answer for this one. I sold

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #216

2000-08-15 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] As I said though, given the low fertility of a yearling and a 30+yr old mare, I would think the odds of her being pregnant are slim to none. Thanks Steve...when I have my regular vet out next week for the annual shots, I will ask him what he

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #214

2000-08-12 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is not likely, but possible that she could have conceived. Considering her age, I don't know if I would let her continue if she did. At this stage it would be no trouble to terminate it. To carry it full term could be another story

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #214

2000-08-12 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] 213 This message is from: Jean Gayle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sue isn't this the old mare who was having trouble getting up? Would you want your grandmother in her eighties carrying a heavy pregnancy and then trying to meet the demands of her own

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #213

2000-08-11 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] You are absolutely right Karen. I actually read right over the Appy part of the message. In that case it would do no good at all. In fact she might want to consider having it terminated if she is pregnant. I don't think I would want to put

Re:Old mare

2000-08-09 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi again everyone: I am wondering if I should get my 31 year old Appaloosa mare blood checked for pregnancy. I hadn't noticed her in heat for some time, so allowed her and Storm, my yearling stud (at the time) colt to run together. I had him

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #211

2000-08-09 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message is from: Jean Gayle [EMAIL PROTECTED] When my huge boy went for his breaking 14 years ago he picked up a fungus on his white pastern. Altho treated, it comes back occasionally. The ferrier was here two weeks ago and all was okay

Re: missing digest

2000-08-04 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was wondering if there was a digest sent out on July 01. If so, I missed that one. I had asked some questions about what to do with the long softish hairs growing along the base of Storms mane. They tend to stick out straight. What will I

Save Robby

2000-08-03 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi everyone: The person who sent this to me is an official in our SPCA. When I saw her signature I knew this article was legitimate. Please sign and cut and copy and send to all your friends. Thanks, Sue in N.B. (Desert Storm's mom) Please

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #204

2000-07-31 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Sue for the enjoyable site. Love your pictures of Storm . Great Photography!! Did you take the pictures? They would look nice on occasional cards. More pictures of you and your horses would be nice. Tillie Yep...I took all

Re: mane

2000-07-31 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] He again everyone: Storm's mane has white hairs laying down on the outer edges of his mane on his neck. It always does this and I usually trim them off. It actually is a fair amount of hair and I don't know why it doesn't stand up like

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #201

2000-07-27 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi everyone: For once I have had a wonderful 2 days with Storm. I am bound and determined to lead him with one hand in his halter. This morning I attempted it and got just opposite this rock that was about 14 inches high and sort of pointy

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #198

2000-07-24 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] The old boot'em around tactics just don't cut it anymore! I keep telling my students that if you want to move a fjords quarters around, pretend you are a fly landing on their side. They notice RIGHT away, whereas, when you push and muscle

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #197

2000-07-23 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll stop my bragging and get on with my day. ...(But, I will add before I go that Lillie is for sale, and she is a looker. Won her halter class as well that year.) Hi Karen: I am thinking of buying another horseone that is well broken

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #197

2000-07-23 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sue, this is a hard calcium lump the size of half a tennis ball. What is Minords linament and where do you get it? Hi Jean: Minards Liniment is a white lotion that is used for arthritic pain and muscular aches. It is made by SmithKline

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #194

2000-07-22 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] The ferrier was just here and we had been watching a growing lump on the pastern of my big boy. The ferrier said it is side bone with growth toward ring bone. No lameness yet and he is not ridden. At nineteen the ferrier felt he would go off

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #188

2000-07-11 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here is a little poem you might enjoy. From Sue in N.B. : DANDY DARLIN' My wife, she has a Quarter Horse With flaxen mane and tail. She thinks he is the finest thing That ever jogged a rail. His name is Dandy Darlin

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #186

2000-07-08 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Joyce in Florida: I am from N.B. in Canada and the weather here is wet ...wet...wet. Can't get any haying done for the rain. The temperature is 64 above F. today. It has been terribly muggy before this though...and before that cold

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #182

2000-07-03 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some like the black showing and some clip the whole mane even and with more of an arc near the top. Some do zebra striping also Hi Jean: Just what is Zebra striping??? I am the one with the bad little boy (before he was gelded ) Desert

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #176 Cutting the mane

2000-06-26 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is their a market for young Fjord stock in the USA, Canada and the rest of Europe? I am from New Brunswick, Canada and the only Fjord breeder here has only babies for sale. I have a 14 month old, that I bought at the age of 3 months since

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #172

2000-06-21 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's the same spot in both nostrils. I'm glad I brought the subject up now in the first place, even if I was in error of where the Jacobson's Organ is. Because. we've got a slightly elderly mare. When I bought her a couple years ago I

Getting away from sweet feed

2000-06-21 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: Sue Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mary said: I started reading that good quality hay and pasture is the best thing you can put into your horses gut. Should you need to up his caloric intake, plain oats are the best choice. Our vet says they are starting to see some horses over

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