Fjord Friends :)
This message is from: Paula Chmura [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well we introduced Frodo to Galianna (barn name now Heidi) this week and it is absolute love. It's amazing how well they get along - Frodo even lets Galiana eat the little bit of grain he gets out of his bucket. And the hoot is all the neighbors think Frodo had a foal!. I (of course :) snapped of few pictures of the happy pair this weekend http://www.pbase.com/paula_chmura/heidi_and_frodo Heidi has a gorgeous canter with great lift and is going to make a wonderful dressage mare. Every day I spend with this wonderful breed I am more amazed and appreciate them more. Paula, Frodo and Heidi
Re: Skunks
This message is from: Warren Stockwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now worries we're all over this one! Started with policing the area for left over cat food, clearing out any hiding places ( read that husbands wood pile ). We left the radio and lights on last night and fed the cats high and little. I usually only feed the cats a small amount and only in the A.M. but I am trying to fatten up a momma cat and it has gotten cold fast so adding a few calories at p.m feeding. Won't be doing that anymore :)) I have always only fed in the A.M due to the dislike of night critters in my barn. My brain is slipping! No stinker last night : )) Will keep eyes pealed and if their is a reoccurrence will get a live trap and shoot the crap out of it ( if I can find a brave sole that will do it without shooting holes in my barn). My husband favors taking the have a heart trap to the lake. I gotta tell ya, I am not gonna pick up that trap or open the door to stinky a job me thinks: )) Roberta - Original Message - From: Janne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Fjord Digest fjordhorse@angus.mystery.com Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 10:55 AM Subject: Skunks This message is from: Janne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sure, Roberta, I'd love a free ride for shooting your skunk. Was supposed to be in the cities this weekend, but no go. Still have harvesting going on, farrier coming, kids screaming, husband hungry and weanlings to train. Haha. Just kidding. Life goes happily on. But really guys, kill those skunks!! Janne
wagon ride...all alone :-(
This message is from: Philis B. Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi everyone, I don't usually post about all the stuff I do with my Fjords, but I'll jump in the fray,(so to speak) too, cause it's fun to hear about others and their Fjord activities. Fun to hear about Pat and friendsI've been there and can appreciate the trail ride. Last Sunday, while my husband was putting up a commercial greenhouse with my son and his wife, I decided to hitch my team of Fjord mares and go for a wagon ride. A good way to exercise two horses at once. I asked for five minutes of my husbands time, but he couldn't give it to me, so The Little (old)Red Hen did it herself. I got the mares, put the heavy leather work harness on both, then the neck yolk, then walked them up from the barn to the yard where my wagon (that could easily carry 6-8 people) was waiting. I walked the left horse over the pole, pulled them back in line, put the neck yolk on the pole, secured it with the safety chain that Doc Hammill recommends. If the horses decided to spook just then I would have had the pole right through my rib cage! They were very cooperative and quiet. Hitched the tugs to the eveners, climbed into the wagon...all alone and went on my way. When I came over the hill to where the greenhouse was going up, my husband said to my son My God, she did it! I continued on my way into the deep woods where the moose, (who are in rut) deer, wolves, coyotes, cougar, bears (that aren't sleeping yet) lynx, bobcats.you name it, live. Never a jump or spook from either horse. What fun!! I had a wonderful drive all by myself and thank God I drive Fjords! Here I go to hitch a horse for a late afternoon drive. Philis Anderson
re: skunk problem
This message is from: Katherine Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mothballs do seem to work as repellents. We have used them under our porch, in holes under barn foundations, etc. Using a handfull per location has discouraged our local skunks from staying around the buildings. But, if there's cat food available that might be more of a problem. I saw a recommendation in a farm book once, to build cat-food stations in places where the cats would have to leap to reach them (e.g., on a shelf on the barn wall) as a way to discourage racoons and skunks from getting the food (those critters not being as good leapers as cats). -Kathy in Maine
Skunks
This message is from: Janne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sure, Roberta, I'd love a free ride for shooting your skunk. Was supposed to be in the cities this weekend, but no go. Still have harvesting going on, farrier coming, kids screaming, husband hungry and weanlings to train. Haha. Just kidding. Life goes happily on. But really guys, kill those skunks!! Janne
Secret Santa Update housekeeping
This message is from: Cynthia Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi folks, The list of SS participants is growing. Sign up now! I am acknowledging sign-ups this year as I receive them so that we don't have the problem we did last year with people thinking they were signed up but somehow I didn't have their names. If you don't receive a return message from me in 2 or 3 days of signing up, please contact me again. BTW, if you signed up last year but did not follow through with your gift(s) you will not be allowed to participate this year. This is not a great problem, but those who did not get their gifts were dissapointed. Yours in SS elfdom, -- Cynthia Madden Las Cruces, NM [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geocities.com/cmadden88011 2nd annual Christmas Carriage Ornaments available at: http://www.geocities.com/zcdc_nm/2005Ornaments An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only on partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, a people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda, is less inclined to put up a fight, to ask questions and be skeptical. That kind of orthodoxy can kill a democracy or worse. - Bill Moyers, National Conference on Media Reform St. Louis, Missouri May 15, 2005
