Re: Frodo pictures
This message is from: Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Paula, What are his bloodlines? I couldn't find Frodo listed in either the NFHR or the Canadian Regilstry. You must know his bloodlines if you found a mare that is related! Hey, I think of my 18 year old gelding, Bjorken, as "My Baby" as I raised him from birth..Have his mom, 28 and another gelding 30, so I sure don't think of him as old! Jean in Fairbanks, Alaska, partly cloudy, thunderstorms in the area 65 degrees At 06:20 PM 6/4/2005 -0700, you wrote: >This message is from: Paula Chmura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Just wanted to send some pictures of the old man I took this afternoon >http://www.pbase.com/paula_chmura/inbox. I just wish I had the oportunity >to know Frodo when he was about ten years younger. Luckily I was just >able to purchase a foal in utero that is out of a mare that is almost a >full sister to Frodo. I was doubly lucky in that the foal turned out to >be the a healthy colt just like I wanted. I'm going up to meet him for >the first time at the Fjord Festival in VA next weekend. There will be >lots of pictures ;) > >Paula and Frodo
Re: Easy entry cart and spares kit
This message is from: "Reena Giola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LOLthis almost sounds like a foreign language..not being a carriage driver myself, I have no idea what you all are talking about!! hahahhaha Reena This message is from: "Karen McCarthy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I will comment on the spares kit though. Unless you are considering showing at rated Pleasure Driving shows, I would forget buying a spendy smucker's type of pigskin lined patent leather spares kit.The tools they have are usually pretty generic, and may be of poor quality (hey your'e buying the patent leather + pigskin, remember?! Instead, take that $$ and go to a good tool store and get a nice tool roll, (in black or brown vinyl) and put all of your goodies in there. Or, have a local saddle maker make you spares kit to your spec, after you have assimilated your spares.
Re: Easy entry cart and spares kit
This message is from: "Karen McCarthy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kay, I'll let others closer to you mention carts to reccomend in your area; the one I would reccomemd is built out here in nevada + shipping would be a bear. I will comment on the spares kit though. Unless you are considering showing at rated Pleasure Driving shows, I would forget buying a spendy smucker's type of pigskin lined patent leather spares kit.The tools they have are usually pretty generic, and may be of poor quality (hey your'e buying the patent leather + pigskin, remember?! Instead, take that $$ and go to a good tool store and get a nice tool roll, (in black or brown vinyl) and put all of your goodies in there. Or, have a local saddle maker make you spares kit to your spec, after you have assimilated your spares. For ADS showing,(singles) it is req'd that you have a trace + rein splice, everything else is just what you decide you need. Here's what's in my spares: I have 2 different vehicles I drive, so I keep all of the box wrenches for each vehicle in there; spare nuts + lock washers; a leatherman knife + tool "unit' (actually goes in my pocket on marathon); a pair of channel lock pliers for accessing the wheel bearings; a couple of spare cotter pins for same; about 24" ea. of latigo, baling wire + baling twine; black electrical tape; rein splice (recycled from a too small throatlatch!) a trace splice, and lastly a really GOOD hole punch. [[I should also mention, that if you are driving pairs, and you have to transport the vehicle around in the trailer + take the pole on + off, it is really nice to have one of those battery powered "things" drills?(? sorry, I am a dumb girl when it comes to remembering this kinda stuff!) that you can snap sockets onto to bolt/un-bolt the swingletrees & pole assembly.]] For everyday, I keep my spares kit in a nice zippered nylon cantle bag that has a nice pair of high tech plastic snaps at each end, that way i can snap it to the expanded metal floor under my cart seat, or i just stash the whole deal in the compartment under my seat in the wagonette. For shows, (presentation @ CDE's) the above spares get rolled into a nice linen horse rub-rag, and that gets put inside a russet leather case I had made up by a saddlemaker; it is basically constructed like a 12" x 15" envelope. It ties once on the inside, and then the two outside flaps come together+ buckle. It lays really flat. Instead of $250. it cost $50.00, plus the cost of all of the tools I cobbled together. Oh, the only "sissy" thing I did is have it monogrammed;- )) Hope this helps! Karen McCarthyGreat Basin Fjords :: Carson City, Nevadahttp://www.picturetrail.com/weegees Original Message Follows From: kay a konove [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, I need to put together a spares kit for my Eagle carriage. Is it better to buy one from a driving source and buy the components myself? Feel free to reply privately or to the list to share your thoughts. Kay Brimfield, MA
Frodo pictures
This message is from: Paula Chmura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Just wanted to send some pictures of the old man I took this afternoon http://www.pbase.com/paula_chmura/inbox. I just wish I had the oportunity to know Frodo when he was about ten years younger. Luckily I was just able to purchase a foal in utero that is out of a mare that is almost a full sister to Frodo. I was doubly lucky in that the foal turned out to be the a healthy colt just like I wanted. I'm going up to meet him for the first time at the Fjord Festival in VA next weekend. There will be lots of pictures ;) Paula and Frodo
Re: grazing safety
This message is from: Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Another excellent list, especially for the recreational driver, is the "RED" list on Yahoo: Recreational Equine Driving list: http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/RecreationalEquineDriving/ Here is where folks share accounts of their fun drives and adventures, harnessing information, etc., no show results, or rules mentioned. Some of the best information on driving, harnessing and vehicles on the web! Jean in showery Fairbanks, Alaska, tired of rain but at least no fires or smoke! >My favorite site besides the Fjord list is the CD-L list. These two are >about the only ones I have time for even though retired and only managing >one horse. > >>Now, would folks be interested in sharing some of their favorite horse sites? >>We could probably build quite a list from our diverse membership. Just a >>thought.
Re: grazing safety
This message is from: "Carol J. Makosky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Robert Morgan wrote: This message is from: "Robert Morgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, My favorite site besides the Fjord list is the CD-L list. These two are about the only ones I have time for even though retired and only managing one horse. Now, would folks be interested in sharing some of their favorite horse sites? We could probably build quite a list from our diverse membership. Just a thought. -- Built Fjord Tough Carol M. On Golden Pond N. Wisconsin
Re: Easy entry cart and spares kit
This message is from: kay a konove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This list is so great with suggestions! How about a recommendation for an easy entry cart to fit my 14h, 8 yo Fjord mare? I think this is what I want for driving around the farm, on gravel driveways and fields. Any preference for wooden wheels over rubber tires? Any experiences to share? Also, I need to put together a spares kit for my Eagle carriage. Is it better to buy one from a driving source and buy the components myself? Feel free to reply privately or to the list to share your thoughts. Kay Brimfield, MA
Re: rescue rules
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 6/4/2005 10:59:03 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Keep in mindthe organization wants a "forever" home...and the only way to make sure of that is to keep in contact. I support that thinking. *** Hi Linda- I can appreciate that, having spent 7 years at a humane society; however, there is no way to make sure. All you can do is screen well and offer education and resources to the adopter (training, neutering, the option of returning the animal, etc.). I learned from my experience that a too-stringent adoption process turns many people off, and they will just go buy from a pet store. / )_~ /L/L Brigid Wasson SF Bay Area, CA www.Brigid.Clickryder.com www.MillwoodRanch.com
Re: rescue rules
This message is from: "Linda Lottie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brigid..I actually tried to adopt a team from this organization several years ago. Was second in line.lost out to a vet :) While the process is lengthy with lots of papers to fill out it was not bothersome to me. The organization simply wants a good home for the animals. I found them nice to work with. Keep in mindthe organization wants a "forever" home...and the only way to make sure of that is to keep in contact. I support that thinking. Linda Baker Lottie in Western Wisconsin.I have moved my horses and am living in my horse trailer. More on all this later. >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: fjordhorse@angus.mystery.com >To: fjordhorse@angus.mystery.com >Subject: Re: fjord gelding for sale with rescue >Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 10:35:09 EDT > >This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Darn, this looks like a horse I would like, but the adoption process is >absurd -- you have to keep in touch with the agency for 2-5 years before they will >"discuss" selling it to you! > > >/ )_~ >/L/L >Brigid Wasson >SF Bay Area, CA >www.Brigid.Clickryder.com >www.MillwoodRanch.com Meet FREE Music: Get 5 FREE songs when you buy 1 song at music.msn.com
re: grazing safety
This message is from: "Robert Morgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, In the Equus magazine during the past year or so there have been several articles on 'grass'. One was titled, "Danger in the Grass" the study came from Wales. It was very interesting stating that the sugar level in the grass rises during the day and decreases in the evenings. This had to do mostly with 'cool season grasses'. It stated that people with the smaller breeds of horses that are most susceptible to founder graze their horses late in the evening. Then in January and February 2005 there are the articles dealing with insulin resistance. The articles helped in our management, although I had been limiting the time on grass for a long time, my mustang has the same problem. Once he nearly foundered in January !! In Montana!! One would think the cold would lessen the chances. Now, would folks be interested in sharing some of their favorite horse sites? We could probably build quite a list from our diverse membership. Just a thought. Bonnie Helena cloudy, some sun, rain since last Wednesday when most areas received over an inch! Hopefully this will slow down the fire seasonor give us lots of fuel to when it dries out again.
Re: fjord gelding for sale with rescue
This message is from: Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Janne Myrdal posted about him before: This message is from: "Janne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wanted to clearify something to concerned fjord people out there. There was a mention of a fjord for adoption , and somehow this fjord has made it to several resue places on the net. This is NOT a rescue horse. Our gelding Ben has been released to Second Wind Adoption program in WV for adoption to good home. He will remain here on our farm under our care until such time as he is adopted. Where, by the way, he is VERY WELL taken care of. He has some ringbone, but is solid and can be used for light work for many years to come. We made a decision to release him to raise some funds for this org. instead of selling him, because we want a good permanent home and also because we want to help raise funds for Second Wind. We highly respect their work and have adopted from them ourselves. If anyone wants to check the website out, it is a great org. www.crossedsabers.com Please do not pass this info on only in order to "rescue" this fjord. He is just fine and will make someone a great hobby fjord in a good home!!! Feel free, however, to consider adopting him and supporting a good org. as well. Sincerely, Janne MyrdalMyrdal Fjords >I know nothing about this horse but hope someone might be interested! I saw >him on a rescue site I was researching. > > > >Ben: 15 year old fjord gelding. Broke the very best to any type of harness >work, used to haul logs in British Columbia, stoneboats, hay, and >meadowbrooks.
Ontario Show .. Not
This message is from: "Cheryl Beillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is to confirm to all who are interested that there will not be an Ontario Show this year .. having spent too much time and too many dollars investing in what was a well received program, at a top quality facilty, I bow to the obvious. We had great support from some of our friends from the South, and a few stalwarts here in Ontario. The last two shows, at the stable which hosts Canada's national dressage competitions, did not draw anywhere near the attendance it should have, given the money spent on advertising and the quality of the Judges - all paid out of my pocket. Including bringing Karen Maas up the first year and van Bon from Holland. Most of the local breeders that one would have expected to attend, claimed they "don't do shows" and tended to show up with their business cards and sales list, instead. Not exactly what was expected or hoped for. We were blessed with wonderful participation from people bringing their horses from a long way away, at considerable expense. But, someone else will have to rise to the occassion. Pat and I have talked about doing another in the eastern part of the province, but if it happens, he'll be doing it, not me. : ) I will be forever grateful to the volunteers (often participating too!) who helped with setting up courses, and getting the information out on the website. And those of you who wrote me privately and posted such wonderful things about the Show each year. We had fun and there were some memorable performances in the ring. But that's it for me. I'm not up for organizing another one. Cheryl Beillard Wake-Robin Farm Fjords www.wakerobinfarm.ca (613) 649-2437
Re: fjord gelding for sale with rescue
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Darn, this looks like a horse I would like, but the adoption process is absurd -- you have to keep in touch with the agency for 2-5 years before they will "discuss" selling it to you! / )_~ /L/L Brigid Wasson SF Bay Area, CA www.Brigid.Clickryder.com www.MillwoodRanch.com
farrier
This message is from: Mike May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For Army Farrier, It's The Day of The Last Hoof By Pablo Izmirlian Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, June 3, 2005; C02 Stepping from a crouch under a tall black horse named Tom, Peter Cote straightens and reaches for a pair of plastic goggles. He grabs a couple of horseshoes from a rack, turns on the bench grinder and sends a shower of sparks flying as he begins to shape them. With an acetylene torch, he cuts the shoes to size, then buries them in the red-hot coals of a forge. Once the metal turns white-hot, he removes them and hammers out toe clips that will hold them on the hoof. Six nails are usually enough to attach a horseshoe, though Cote remembers having to use 16 of them once on a horse with flat feet. After 35 years as the farrier at Fort Myer, he's learned more than a few things about horses and a little about life -- mostly the hard way. He's been kicked and stomped on, head-butted and sat on. And still, he says, he feels as though he understands horses "a whole lot better" than people. The trick is to "work with them and not against them," he says. This is, perhaps, one of the hardest-won lessons he will take with him when he leaves his job today as the last civilian farrier on the Army payroll. For 35 years, his days as the farrier at Fort Myer, adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery, have begun pretty much the same. Wake up at 3:30 a.m., feed his three Rocky Mountain horses at his home in Fredericksburg and drive to Fort Myer. At 5 o'clock in the morning, it's still dark. Members of the Old Guard, the oldest and most prestigious active-duty infantry unit in the Army, based here, are gathering outside the stables for reveille when Cote pulls up in his white pickup truck. A sign painted on the side of the door reads "Horse Shoeing. Pete Cote. Nation's farrier." Cote jumps out of the truck in bluejeans and a faded green and pink shirt. He opens the big wooden doors of the blacksmith shop, turns on bright fluorescent lights, takes a quick walk through the stables to gauge what needs to be done and stokes the forge with coal. By 6 a.m. his apprentice arrives, and stable hands start bringing in the horses that need to be shod. Brooks and Sure Fire are the first of the day. Cote ties his mule-skin apron around him and gets to work. Every six weeks, each of the 46 horses in the stable is brought in for a new set of shoes. On this day, three are up for shoeing. Every day, two teams of eight horses will be called on to pull a caisson to Arlington National Cemetery. Back and forth, sometimes several times a day, the horses can walk up to 15 miles in a day on hard pavement. By 8:30 a.m., the horses must be saddled and ready to go. Cote, 55, knew he wanted to be a farrier from the moment he shoed his first horse, at age 12. Drafted into the Army after high school, he spent eight months in Germany as a heavy artilleryman. But after writing letters to the Pentagon touting his knowledge of horses, he was transferred in 1970 to Fort Myer, where he started working in the stables. After being honorably discharged in 1971, he was hired back as a civilian blacksmith and farrier. As the primary farrier for the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, the Army's official ceremonial unit, Cote has helped prepare horses for ceremonial events from Lyndon Johnson's funeral in 1973 to Ronald Reagan's last year. In between he has shoed horses for nine presidential inaugurations and countless military parades. When asked about the highlights of his career, however, he is more apt to talk about battle scars than ceremonial moments. Nose, ankle and jaw -- all broken at one time or another. Cracked rib, collapsed lung, herniated disk, torn rotator cuffs in both shoulders and torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. Each injury tells a story about a moment. Like the time he caught his left middle finger in a halter, and the horse he was walking back to the stable pulled it all the way to the back of his hand. He can't lay it flat anymore. Another time, a horse fainted and fell over on him. Collapsed right lung. Three weeks in hospital. In one of his earlier accidents, as he walked up alongside a horse, it turned its head, butting Cote in the face. Nose reconstruction. Four days out of the shop. Not to mention "two big black eyes," Cote recalls. Then there was the time a horse got scared and kicked him in the mouth. "I couldn't open my mouth," says Cote. For weeks he lived on soup and milkshakes, writing down what he wanted to say. Eugene Burks, a saddler who has worked with Cote for more than 20 years, says he learned from Cote's accidents -- and sometimes not-so-subtle tutelage. Once, Cote confined him in a supply room by nailing the door shut after Burks brought him the wrong supplies. "Pete is just a little radical," says Burks, 48. Cote's colleagues have been known to respond to him similarly, such as the time they tied him to a chair and soaked him
fjord gelding for sale with rescue
This message is from: "Tanya Welsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I know nothing about this horse but hope someone might be interested! I saw him on a rescue site I was researching. Ben: 15 year old fjord gelding. Broke the very best to any type of harness work, used to haul logs in British Columbia, stoneboats, hay, and meadowbrooks. Also broke to ride, but does not neck rein. He is very very drafty, reg. with NFHR and Canadian. Association. About 14.1hh. I have had all my three little kids on him bareback and leadline. AS with any fjord, you have to establish who is boss as soon as they arrive, but then he is an in your face super friendly fjord. The only "hitch" with him that a new owner must understand is that he has developed ringbone on front feet. He is still totally sound and would be fine for light jobs, and would be a great!! backyard fjord for someone to love and enjoy. I have not yet needed shoes on him, but shoes with pads will certainly help later. My vet can be reference as we x-rayed him last fall. She knows all my horses well. Adoption fee is $900. See http://www.crossedsabers.com/AVAILABLE%20HORSE%20PAGES/Ben,%20Fjord.htm Tanya K. Welsch, MSW MN LINC Administrator 952-472-2422 www.mnlinc.org
