hoof pictures

[Epona1971]

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Hi Everyone-
 
Ok, here's a winter project for you. I am networking with another hoof  
trimmer and comparing notes on how we do things. She's been taught that  
concavity 
is your goal in trimming, and can't believe that my Fjords'  pancake-flat 
soles are normal. All the Fjords I've known are like this. I would  love it if 
any 
of you could send me digital photos of the bottom of your Fjords'  hooves, 
preferably barefoot and soon after a trim. Please indicate your Fjord's  age 
and 
soundness/activity level. Thank you!!  

/  )_~
/L/L
Brigid Wasson
SF Bay Area, CA
_www.Brigid.Clickryder.com_ (http://www.brigid.clickryder.com/) 

Re: winter blahs

[Reena Giola]

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WOW!!! and I thought that was just my guy who could do that!!
(unzipping)..he was always doing that with my winter coat!!! :-)

Reena
  - Original Message -
  From: janet
  To: fjordhorse@angus.mystery.com ; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 6:30 PM
  Subject: winter blahs


  This message is from: "janet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

   One exercise that you do occasionally is just sit with your horse and
  basically do nothing.   I would recommend to anyone to try it, just
to
  see what your horse will do.
  -

  LOL, well mine would disrobe me one button at a time.  First they'd take
off
  my hat and play with it until that gets boring, then come back and try
every
  button and zipper they can work.  My mare can zip and unzip my coat with
the
  greatest of precision.

  Janet

winter blahs

[janet]

This message is from: "janet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

 One exercise that you do occasionally is just sit with your horse and
basically do nothing.   I would recommend to anyone to try it, just to
see what your horse will do.
-

LOL, well mine would disrobe me one button at a time.  First they'd take off
my hat and play with it until that gets boring, then come back and try every
button and zipper they can work.  My mare can zip and unzip my coat with the
greatest of precision.

Janet

County Saddle

[mikepeg spear]

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A few weeks back someone remarked on the list that they had a Dressage County 
Saddle for sale.  I can't remember if it was a wide or extra wide.  Does that 
person still have that saddle for sale? 
Thanks. 

Re: WINTER BLAHS

[Warren Stockwell]

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No winter blahs here or at least fighting them!! Hannah ( my 10 year old )
and I went for a ride yesterday just a 1/2. I was on the back of my  QH
horse and Hannah her Fjord and I gotta tell ya no matter how cold, it was
wonderful to see that Fjord take such good care of Hannah, and such careful
steppin' to!! IT was icy and cold and we looked like " stay puff" marsh
mellow riders out their ( no indoor here ), but man did that hit the spot!!!
: ))) Now I got the spring fever bad and Hannah has big plans to hit all the
shows in the state ( I am tired thinking about it ). Get out their and go it
feels GREAT !

Roberta
New Prague MN

WINTER BLAHS

[Cynthia Madden]

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Sorry can't help thi!s Temps today! 
Omaha   19 degrees
Las Cruces 72 degrees
 
I am so happy I don't live north anymore!!!


Cynthia Madden
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[Pedfjords]

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In a message dated 1/10/2005 2:05:04 PM Mountain Standard Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> it was actually warm enough to sit outside like that doing nothing (well, I 
> was wearing my fleece pajamas under my clothes . . .)  I would recommend to 
> anyone to try it, just to see what your horse will do.

  OK Tish. I TRIED to just sit on one of my Fjords, doing nothing 
just to " see what she would do. " Wearing MY sleep outfit as well. I had a 
runaway wreck !  !  !

 
   Maybe it had something do do with the fact that I wear nothing as 
a " sleep outfit. " Scared the hell out the whole place. Neighbors have also 
shut their blinds and put their dogs in. 



   Any MORE good suggestions ?Lisa

Seat belts

[Les]

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Jean
You wouldn't want a seat belt. I have seen people make corners way too sharp 
and fast and flip the cart. Can you see why you would want to be some where 
but under that cart.
Back in November we had a bad Sunday happening . Naturally a horse never has 
an accident on a weekday during business hours. I was at home watching a 
football game ( about 2 PM ) when a neighbor's brother came to the door 
saying " your horse has just had a bad accident ". It seemed that the 
neighbor had watched this Appy pick up this big piece of black plastic bag 
( we had bad winds for days and it must have blown into our pasture ) and it 
had scared him. He raced around the pasture with it in his mouth with our 
fjords following him. He then hit the gate breaking the latch, went up this 
slope and tried to jump our 9 wire New Zealand fence. He broke 3 wires then 
hit the end of the cattle guard, flipped coming down hard on both front 
knees. At that point he got up and walked over to my neighbor to say " I 
need help."
When I got there I was very mad at him. He was a mess!   He had about 7 
cuts, 2 were major. The biggest one was on the top of his right front leg, 
about 6 inch long oval with a large flap of skin. The other bad one was on 
the back right and was about 3 inches. He had 3 cuts on the top of his head 
and both front knees were skinned and bleeding. Now living in the country 
means few Vets and hard to get, but I called and left a message. Another 
neighbor came over and we started to treat this horse. I have had horses 
most of my life but few bad accidents. So I'm not good about what all to 
have and do. I try to have well, safe horses but that does not help when you 
have a mess. His knees started to swell and he was going into shock . So I 
applied ice and gave him 2 grams of bute ( which seemed to help the shock ) 
with some grain. We cleaned all the wounds and I applied a Depends pad to 
the big wound. finally the Vet called about 8:30 PM and I told him what we 
had done. He said it sounded like all that can be done today and he would 
call at 8 AM to see how it was going. He never did get back to me, but I had 
another Vet out about 4 PM on Monday. He did some more cleaning ( he liked 
my Depends dressing but he left it open.
The horse healed fine but it is so hard to keep things out of a pasture that 
horses can get in trouble with. I can feel for you Lisa. Some times I wish 
horses came with an on off switch. 

RE: Winter blahs

[Linda Lottie]

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Tish and the rest of the "gang";

I need to fess-up and tell all of you that I no longer live up north.  I 
have relocated to Minneapolis, horses and all...horses are boarded in 
Albertville, (very sadly had to sell my goat girls) and I live in a 
beautiful neighborhood near the Walker Art Center.  I have been through two 
extremely traumatic life changing events in the past two years.


In February 2003 I was reunited with the  daughter I lost to adoption in 
l970 while a college student.  The journey through reunion has been one of 
the most difficult things I have ever dealt with...the only thing worse 
was saying goodbye to my baby girl and handing her over to a social worker 
at 5 days old.  My daughter (34) years old is my biological daughter and I 
am her mother and we have an incredible bondyet, we are strangers.  
To say I am on a rollercoster is an understatement.


The other event is the end of my 32 year marriage.  My husband is living up 
north on his dream property, is retired and a happy camper.  I am living in 
Mpls near my friends & support system, animals, horse life, one raised 
daughter and nearer to the daughter I was unable to raise.  I also have two 
of the most adorable grandsons ages 4 and 2 by my oldest daughter (adopted). 
 AND, I am a happy camper!!!


So, yes, Tish, while the ice stinks.I have an indoor arena.  Too darn 
cold to ride for me.arthritis!  I am in the market for land to build my 
own barn or finding an affordable boarding place with an insulated arena 
- don't need heat.just insulated.  Most days are "warm" enough that 
with insulation and some sunshine it is warm enough to ride.


I am looking forward to an uneventful 2005 - I could use some peace and 
quiet in my life.


Hugs your fjords, everyone...mine have been my survival during this 
difficult time!!!


Linda Jo Baker Lottie.Mpls MN

>From: "Pasqual, Patricia A" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>Reply-To: fjordhorse@angus.mystery.com
>To: "Fjord (E-mail)" 
>Subject: Winter blahs
>Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:31:56 -0600
>
>This message is from: "Pasqual, Patricia A" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>
>We are having the winter from hell - icy, little snow, more like the 
Detroit I moved away from 20+ years ago.  Maybe I should follow Linda Lottie 
to a more northern Minnesota?  How is your snow there, Linda?  And it looks 
like we will be having an arctic blast later in the week, actual temps of 
about 30 below.

>
>I am pondering next year's boarding situation, and am thinking that I 
absolutely have to figure out a situation that has an indoor arena.  We do 
have access to one now, but the idea of hauling through this ice is 
discouraging, not exactly a day to day thing.  I just don't feel like any 
progress is being made at all through the winters, and I don't like this 
pause button on what I'm trying to accomplish.

>
>On a positive note, I have been doing the Level 1 Pat Parelli work.  I 
attended a two day clinic last fall and watched ten people with their horses 
make great progress over the course of the two days.  One exercise that you 
do occasionally is just sit with your horse and basically do nothing.  I did 
that yesterday, since it was actually warm enough to sit outside like that 
doing nothing (well, I was wearing my fleece pajamas under my clothes . . .) 
 I would recommend to anyone to try it, just to see what your horse will 
do.  After sitting with Elph for the half hour (he stood next to me, dipping 
his head for a scratch now and then, he is always quite curious when I am 
just sitting there), I stood up and slowly walked around his 2 acre 
pasture,walking away from his little herd that was in the next pasture.  He 
followed me, mostly side by side, sometimes on the left, sometimes on the 
right - it was like I had his halter and leadrope on him.  When I stopped, 
he stopped, when I !
>  picked up speed, he trotted.  I did that for about a half an hour, 
just aimlessly moving around the pasture.  The hardest move was going to the 
right when he was on my right, but by gently touching his neck he eventually 
followed very well, it was almost like dancing.  That is the most fun we 
have had in quite a while.

>
>So I really like the idea of playing, he definitely "got it."  
And I too am adding the clicker (which I have successfully used to teach him 
many things) with the Parelli training so I don't have to endlessly repeat.  
I think with Fjords you just have to figure out a way to have fun with the 
training.

>
>Tish and Elph in Minneapolis

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Re: Some questions and comments.

[FjordAmy]

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In a message dated 1/8/2005 9:23:50 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've heard that problems can arise in situations such as tying in a trailer 
and you really couldn't use cross ties with them. Just wandering how others 
deal with this and how many people who have two halters (1 nylon and 1 rope) 
for 
their horses like me.


I use only tied rope halters for all our horses, other than small foals. I've 
never had a problem of any kind with them, and I do use them in the trailer 
too. The one thing I DO do is make sure that the lead rope on them is cotton 
rope and not that nylon stuff. It is easier on the hands, doesn't tighten up so 
you can't get the knot undone and if you need to it's easier to cut with a 
knife than nylon rope. 

Amy



Amy Evers
Dun Lookin' Fjords
Redmond, OR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Winter blahs

[Pasqual, Patricia A]

This message is from: "Pasqual, Patricia A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

We are having the winter from hell - icy, little snow, more like the Detroit I 
moved away from 20+ years ago.  Maybe I should follow Linda Lottie to a more 
northern Minnesota?  How is your snow there, Linda?  And it looks like we will 
be having an arctic blast later in the week, actual temps of about 30 below.

I am pondering next year's boarding situation, and am thinking that I 
absolutely have to figure out a situation that has an indoor arena.  We do have 
access to one now, but the idea of hauling through this ice is discouraging, 
not exactly a day to day thing.  I just don't feel like any progress is being 
made at all through the winters, and I don't like this pause button on what I'm 
trying to accomplish.

On a positive note, I have been doing the Level 1 Pat Parelli work.  I attended 
a two day clinic last fall and watched ten people with their horses make great 
progress over the course of the two days.  One exercise that you do 
occasionally is just sit with your horse and basically do nothing.  I did that 
yesterday, since it was actually warm enough to sit outside like that doing 
nothing (well, I was wearing my fleece pajamas under my clothes . . .)  I would 
recommend to anyone to try it, just to see what your horse will do.  After 
sitting with Elph for the half hour (he stood next to me, dipping his head for 
a scratch now and then, he is always quite curious when I am just sitting 
there), I stood up and slowly walked around his 2 acre pasture,walking away 
from his little herd that was in the next pasture.  He followed me, mostly side 
by side, sometimes on the left, sometimes on the right - it was like I had his 
halter and leadrope on him.  When I stopped, he stopped, when I !
 picked up speed, he trotted.  I did that for about a half an hour, just 
aimlessly moving around the pasture.  The hardest move was going to the right 
when he was on my right, but by gently touching his neck he eventually followed 
very well, it was almost like dancing.  That is the most fun we have had in 
quite a while.

So I really like the idea of playing, he definitely "got it."  And I too am 
adding the clicker (which I have successfully used to teach him many things) 
with the Parelli training so I don't have to endlessly repeat.  I think with 
Fjords you just have to figure out a way to have fun with the training.

Tish and Elph in Minneapolis