Re: Changing of the guard
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve, Nice to hear someone else shares my same feelings. He still rallies for dominance at times, but the young Fjord has taken over the lead position for the long term. Susan
Re: evaluations/conformation
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Julie, everyone, A conformation evaluation is what we (Great Lakes Fjordhest) have been considering too. We are not sure if we would have a great deal of entries for performance, plus the costs pretty much prohibit a full scale eval at this time. What really is starting to concern me about this, however, is the issue of evaluating young horses. At what age do the evaluators really begin to seriously evaluate horses? Lynda Daniel Bailey and Lynda C. Welch-Bailey Bailey's Norwegian Fjord Horse Farm White Cloud, MI
evaluations/conformation
This message is from: Julia Will <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nancy commented on the value of having performance as well as conformation evaluated, which I agree with in principle. However, I have the feeling that many people would be willing to have conformation evaluated on horses that are not sufficiently trained for a performance evaluation. Certainly, stallions should have both performance and conformation evaluations done, and mares if possible. But better to evaluate only conformation than nothing. Also the cost, the facility requirements, the paperwork, etc. etc. is much less if just doing conformation. I think that many breeders would be willing to host an "on farm" evaluation (YES>>>this is allowed) for conformation and have most of their horses done, with outside horses coming in also. I certainly would! On my farm, in any given summer, I have 5 or 6 mares with foals at their sides who are not in any shape to perform. I have a few older mares (19 to 23) who were performers in their younger years, but not anymore, and I have young, untrained or green animals that I would have evaluated. I think the NFHR evaluation committee should offer a simple, one day format for conformation only evaluations that doesn't take 6 months of exhaustive effort to organize. I have heard Kip and Nancy and Gayle's tales of the HUGE amount of time it took to organize a full blown evaluation, and it has certainly made me stop and think twice before jumping into THAT briar patch. Not that there isn't a need for both...just more of a need to AT LEAST evaluate conformation.
Re: Sick baby
This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jan, I certainly hope all goes well and it sounds better. They are so innocent and helpless. Tears your heart out. I am sure she is in good hands. Jean Jean Gayle Aberdeen, WA [Authoress of "The Colonel's Daughter" Occupied Germany 1946 TO 1949 ] http://www.techline.com/~jgayle
Sick baby
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, list. Our newest baby, 7-day-old Hannah, was taken ill this past Friday night and has had to go to the Equine Hospital in Leesburg, VA for intensive care. She is recovering nicely, with fluids and antibiotics, and might be able to come home Tuesday or Wednesday. We don't know exactly what went wrong, probably a viral or bacterial infection in the gut - poor girl was very colicky and miserable, with awful diarrhea. This horrible, continual heat and drought probably contributed as well. What an awful time to be born - it looks and feels like a desert around here. I would appreciate it if you would all keep Hannah (Prisco x Lady Liberty, by Erland) in your thoughts and prayers. Thanks, Jan
Re: evaluations
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Alex. It sounds like there's plenty of interest down here after all. Maybe I can get something cooking - I will be looking seriously into it and will let you know how it progresses. Dr. Brian, your idea about having it on your farm was good, too - you certainlly have more horses to evaluate than any of the rest of us, and it would be harder to move them. Sue Banks, got your e-mail and I'm glad you're interested too. I'll be getting with you to talk about ideas and details. Anybody else, please e-mail privately with questions, ideas, thoughts, locations - maybe we can really make this happen!
Re: fjordhorse-digest V99 #156
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 99-08-15 05:59:44 EDT, you write: << And I'm finally riding daily [no body parts broken] and trying to figure out leads. Bump, bump, up, down, up, down, "release your back, Peg, release your back, good now center yourself, turn your barrel outside and move your shoulders the other way, ears reach for the sky, good, shorten your reins,argh!" I'm not, I'm not, I'm NOT too old for this! I hope. See you all at Libby - Peg Knutsen >> ** Peggydont forget to SMILE !! Lisa Pedersen
Re: evaluations
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is from Alex Wind in Shawsville, VA. I would love to have an evaluation in Virginia. Perhaps at Free Union, VA, or at the horse center in Lexington, VA. Lexington is about 2 hrs., Free Union about 3 hrs. from here. If I had more Fjords, I would offer to host, but I only have two. Frank Bayliss, has eight or ten, including a stallion, in Tom's Creek, VA, right off Hwy 81, he isn't active in The Registry, but might want to participate in an evaluation. Keep me posted on the possibilities, please. Alex
Individual vs. Digest
I think I am receiving individual messages, since I never requested Digest format. Tell me, what is the difference! I am really enjoying the List, even tho I do not yet own a Fjord! I have gathered so much info and hopefully, I will be able to have a Fjord face in my very near future! I am thinking of going to Libby next year (unfortunately, I cannot make it this year). Do you feel that is the best show for meeting most of the breeders and Fjord owners? Since I am located in S. Florida with not many Fjord people around, I thought that would be my best bet..what do you think? Thanks, Carolyn
Fjord Horse List
Hi Steve Just wanted to let you know Ginny Cowles of Los Trigos Fjord Ranch is trying to sign up on the fjord line and is having problems. She is not real computer literate so I am sure she not doing something right. Could you help? Her email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks. Sue in wet and dreary NM
Fw: [draftndrive] whatta guy !!
This message is from: "Lynn Mohr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Though some of you might be interested in the use of fjord stallions. -Original Message- From: Pony Express <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, August 15, 1999 11:48 AM Subject: RE: [draftndrive] whatta guy !! >From: "Pony Express" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I agree, I just don't think you can get a better horse than a draft or draft >cross. They have it all, looks, size, temperment...everything in one huge >package :) > >I'm glad your PMU foal is bringing you such joy. I am working on getting a >truckload of them brought to Texas for people to adopt. The farm they will >be coming from has 20 stallions and 2/3 of them are draft horses. The mares >are Quarter horses and draft crosses. They also have a couple Fjord >stallions. I'm concentrating on the draftcrosses though. Right now I'm just >waiting to fond out how much it will cost to bring them down and then we >will be looking for homes for them. I hope the people who will be adopting >these find as much joy in them as you are finding in Spot. > >I have to mention that Bill had a fit when he saw you named your horse Spot. >He has been trying to name every spotted baby we have Spot and I won't let >him! > >Jen > > > >--- ONElist Sponsor > >How do you enter ONElistÂ’s WEEKLY DRAWING for $100? >By joining the FRIENDS & FAMILY program. For details, go to >http://www.onelist.com/info/onereachsplash3.html > > >
New Welcome Message
This message is from: Steve McIlree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's been awhile since I've written to the list about the state of the list, so I will do so now. Last month saw a new high in message traffic with 818 total messages. The previous high was January '99 with 617 total messages. We're keeping pace this month with 468 messages logged at the half-way point. I don't know if the higher volume in the summer is because of the high temperatures keeping folks indoors, or just because we have more subscribers than last summer. We now have over 300 regular subscribers. They come from fourteen countries as far as I can determine from addresses. Currently the most subscribers are from the U.S. and Canada, but we also have folks from Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, the U.K., Australia, and Japan. If I've left anyone's country off this role I wish you would e-mail me so I would be aware in the future. We are starting to get quite a few people subscribing for only a couple of days. That's probably because the List Web site has risen in profile on many of the search engines, and people who have no real interest in Fjord horses are subscribing on a whim. People have been having trouble with the commands to unsubscribe from the list and to set the list to digest. Also the nomail and mail options are forgotten. Below is the Welcome message again. All of the important commands are there. Please save a copy of this letter. It's especially problematic when people ask me to turn off their subscription for vacation. I'm not always around on the day your vacation starts, and I sometimes forget when you're returning home. Please review the nomail and mail set commands and take care of vacations yourselves. If you're trying to send a command and receiving a message that you are not a subscriber, it's probably because you are sending the command to the wrong list. If you receive the digest, you should send commands to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", otherwise commands should go to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". == Welcome to the fjordhorse mailing list! Please save this message for future reference. Thank you. If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list, send the following command in email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: unsubscribe Or you can send mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the following command in the body of your email message: unsubscribe fjordhorse or unsubscribe fjordhorse-digest or from another address, besides [EMAIL PROTECTED]: unsubscribe fjordhorse [EMAIL PROTECTED] or unsubscribe fjordhorse-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you ever need to get in contact with the owner of the list, (if you have trouble unsubscribing, or have questions about the list itself) send email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . This is the general rule for most mailing lists when you need to contact a human. An easy way to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the list can be found at: http://www.netspace.org/cgi-bin/lwgate/fjordhorse/ Simply filling in the forms there will allow one to be added to or deleted from the "FjordHorse" mailing list. Please note that these forms do not work for the digest. You may choose to receive "FjordHorse" in either digest format or as individual messages. If you are currently receiving individual messages and would prefer to receive a daily digest, send the following command in the body of an e-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> set digest If on the other hand, you are currently receiving the digest format and would prefer to receive individual messages, send the following command in the body of an e-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> set nodigest If you are going to be gone from your computer for more than two or three days and do not wish to have your mailbox get filled with unread fjordhorse messages you may wish to put the list "on hold". To do this send the following command in the body of an e-mail to either: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> set nomail When you return and wish to "restart" the list send the following command in the body of an e-mail to either: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> set mail To send a message to the list address it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Be sure to use this address even if you are subscribed to the digest. Messages which are sent to the digest are seen only by those who have a digest subscription. And then it is seen as an individual message. If I resend the message so it is seen by those who get the regular version of the list it will appear twice in the digest the next day. Please be sure that your mail program is set to send plain ASCII text. If you send an HTML formatted message, I will return it to you and ask you to resend it as plain text. The mail programs which are the worst offenders in this regard a Microsoft Outlook Express and Netscape Mailer. Please check your setup
