dragging feet
This message is from: lhedelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, My 7 year old drags his back feet at the trot. He is barefoot, and he will square off his toes after just a short drive down the road. Do others experience this? I'm thinking he's just lazy and doesn't pick up his feet, but I'm wondering if this is common. He moves out just fine, and seems to enjoy his drives. Any ideas? Laura
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This message is from: Carol Makosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good topic. My Heidi does the same thing and even squares off her shoes eventually. Hope to hear from others on this. lhedelson wrote: This message is from: lhedelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, My 7 year old drags his back feet at the trot. He is barefoot, and he will square off his toes after just a short drive down the road. Do others experience this? I'm thinking he's just lazy and doesn't pick up his feet, but I'm wondering if this is common. He moves out just fine, and seems to enjoy his drives. Any ideas? Laura -- Built Fjord Tough Carol M. On Golden Pond N. Wisconsin
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This message is from: Reena Giola [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yep, Gustav does this too Reena AZ This message is from: Carol Makosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good topic. My Heidi does the same thing and even squares off her shoes eventually. Hope to hear from others on this. This message is from: lhedelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, My 7 year old drags his back feet at the trot. Laura
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This message is from: Linda Bain [EMAIL PROTECTED] There has been much discussion on this before (can't remember if it is on this list or not), but I have spoken to lots of fjord owners who say the same. I spoke to my farrier and he changed the shoes to ones who have rolled toes and no clips. They are brilliant, no more tripping. My farrier thinks these shoes are the best and are squared off at the toe. Ask your farrier if he can change the shoes to see if it helps. Linda - Original Message - From: Reena Giola [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: fjordhorse@angus.mystery.com Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 1:46 PM Subject: Re: dragging feet This message is from: Reena Giola [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yep, Gustav does this too Reena AZ This message is from: Carol Makosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good topic. My Heidi does the same thing and even squares off her shoes eventually. Hope to hear from others on this. This message is from: lhedelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, My 7 year old drags his back feet at the trot. Laura
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This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HI, we have found with both of our 7 yr old barefoot boys, Bjorn Olav, that riding over ground poles, and small (cross rails) jumps is the answer for lightening up that heavy action, plus: it's loads of fun in the saddle for the rider! Placing the ground poles fairly close together makes them really have to think about placement. Bjorn has just recieved a 64.09 in Training 1, and a 65.00 in Training 2 Dressage, His first time showing in Training level! he has really learned to pick his feet up and move out. Olav is getting ready for Dressage now. Pardon the 'BRAG' - but this practice work really helped us a lot! Denise -- Original message -- From: lhedelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message is from: lhedelson Hi, My 7 year old drags his back feet at the trot. He is barefoot, and he will square off his toes after just a short drive down the road. Do others experience this? I'm thinking he's just lazy and doesn't pick up his feet, but I'm wondering if this is common. He moves out just fine, and seems to enjoy his drives. Any ideas? Laura
Brag Alert
This message is from: Teressa Kandianis [EMAIL PROTECTED] My little 13 3 mare, Nina, competed last weekend at the Maple Ridge Equestrian Centre in Maple Ridge, BC at an A rated hunter/jumper show. I sent her up there for an overnight experience as they leave thursday and come back Sunday, just to make sure she learns to settle in at strange venues. However, she did way more than settle. She was good as gold ... out of her nine classes, she had six firsts, 1 second, 1 third, and 1 fourth. She took champion in her two divisions, pony short stirrup, and horse short stirrup both over 2'3 fences. So I got lots of lovely ribbons and a couple of embroidered cooling sheets. Her rider was Alison Veenbaas, a young jumper girl who trains at my barn. Alison did a beautiful job with Nina particularly since she had only ridden her 5 or 6 times before the show. And I have to say, Nina looked spectacular. I trimmed her legs and feet, face and head. Washed her with white enhancing shampoo so her outer mane was brilliant and her tail was full, clean, shining and docked about 12 inches from the ground. She is also in fantastic physical condition. The judge obviously liked everything about her despite the well known breed prejudice attributed to hunter judges. I've had major interference with my riding because of intense work travel over the past 3 months but Nina's training has been going on full speed without me. She was getting lots of her lead changes over the jumps and Alison just started working on her flying changes the week before the show. My trainer and coach, Marg Clumpner, has made great progress with Nina while I've been gone. And I'm finally taking her advice to do lunge line lessons to improve my body position. To top off, summer has finally come to Ferndale, I have a lesson this afternoon, a pilates riding clinic tomorrow, and a driving lesson with China next week. Life is good. Teressa in Ferndale, Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oregon Fjord Club
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oregon Fjord Club is busy stuffing envelopes to get a mailing out to all 2006 NFHR members. If you are not on the current roster and want an announcement from the Oregon Fjord Club as to the 2006 Foal Raffle (filly this year), Fjord Christmas Cards, a current sales list, and a special announcement form OFC about the NFH Foundation Silent Auction, please email me directly with your name, address, city, state Zip code. We will address one just for you. For those of you that are NFHR members and are on the rooster list, please look for your announcement letter in the mail soon. Thank you. Catherine Lassesen President Oregon Fjord Club c/o Amy Evers 260 May Creek Road Days Creek, OR 97429
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Hauling a horse
This message is from: Linda Lottie User [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi...can someone give me an idea what I might charge to haul a horsedoes one charge by the mile? Linda in WI
Re: dragging feet
This message is from: bolinsj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Agree. We do not shoe, but trim to a squared off toe. It seems to help and he picks up his hind feet better when trimmed that way. We don't ride much on road or hard-packed ground, but when we expect to do so, we use Old Macs which work out fine. Martie in MD Linda Bain wrote: This message is from: Linda Bain [EMAIL PROTECTED] There has been much discussion on this before (can't remember if it is on this list or not), but I have spoken to lots of fjord owners who say the same. I spoke to my farrier and he changed the shoes to ones who have rolled toes and no clips. They are brilliant, no more tripping. My farrier thinks these shoes are the best and are squared off at the toe. Ask your farrier if he can change the shoes to see if it helps. Linda
Re: Hauling a horse
This message is from: Jean Ernest [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am wondering the same thing. Considering the cost of gas you might calculate how many miles per gallon your outfit gets (hauling a trailer with horse in it) and start from there. If my old 3/4 ton F250 gets 10 miles per gallon AT BEST when pulling a loaded trailer ( more like 8 or less I think) and a gallon costs $2.90, then it is at least $.29/ mile just for gas. So I think I am going to charge $.30/ mile for the total trip on a local haul here: empty to pick up horse, and full to the clinic, and then empty back home. Probably about 40 miles @ $.30/mile or at least $12 to haul the horse TO the clinic, and another $12 to haul the horse back to the owners home. And that covers just the gas. I think I will charge her $25 to $30 total as she is a friend. Does that sound reasonable to other folks? Jean in Fairbanks, Alaska, sunny and will be 70 degrees today. Hi...can someone give me an idea what I might charge to haul a horsedoes one charge by the mile? Linda in WI
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This message is from: Linda Lottie User [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeanhummm, I am thinking more like 55 cents a milebut, that is including wear and tear on the vehicle and my time. I am wondering too, if I count the trip home in the calculations. Thanks for your thoughtsothers? Linda On 6/22/06 2:23 PM, Jean Ernest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This message is from: Jean Ernest [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am wondering the same thing. Considering the cost of gas you might calculate how many miles per gallon your outfit gets (hauling a trailer with horse in it) and start from there. If my old 3/4 ton F250 gets 10 miles per gallon AT BEST when pulling a loaded trailer ( more like 8 or less I think) and a gallon costs $2.90, then it is at least $.29/ mile just for gas. So I think I am going to charge $.30/ mile for the total trip on a local haul here: empty to pick up horse, and full to the clinic, and then empty back home. Probably about 40 miles @ $.30/mile or at least $12 to haul the horse TO the clinic, and another $12 to haul the horse back to the owners home. And that covers just the gas. I think I will charge her $25 to $30 total as she is a friend. Does that sound reasonable to other folks? Jean in Fairbanks, Alaska, sunny and will be 70 degrees today. Hi...can someone give me an idea what I might charge to haul a horsedoes one charge by the mile? Linda in WI
Long weekend vacation - long
This message is from: fjords [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi everyone, My friend, Penny Lane (yep - that's her real name!) and I spent a 4 day weekend at the Eden Valley Guest Ranch in central northern Washington a few miles from the Canadian border. It was fantastic! http://www.edenvalleyranch.net/index.html I took my mare, Reina, and Penny took her gelding, Jens. By the end of the weekend our pride in, and love of, our Fjords was intensified by our experiences on the trails. We rode with a couple of other people a few times and our Fjords were steady as a rock while a couple of the other horses had issues. We started out at about 4000 feet in altitude and went up from there. It was a test for our flat land Fjords who live at a 400 foot altitude. We had been riding and driving them so they were in pretty good shape but we still had to stop and let them blow after some of the climbs. The wildflowers were blooming and the wildlife was abundant. On one ride we came into a meadow and a doe was just standing up. We stopped, watched her and thought she might have a fawn by her hind legs. Out came the binoculars and digital camera! On closer inspection and after the doe moved a couple of feet forward we realized she had just given birth to twins! Both of the newborn fawns were trying to stand and kept falling back down. Finally one of them did stand and the other kept trying until it braced its' legs long enough to stay upright. We took a couple of pictures and left them so the doe could relax and care for her fawns. We continued riding on for a couple of hours - uphill most of the way. We saw some beautiful vistas. The forest smelled wonderful. A combination of fresh pine and cedar scents blended with the earthy odor of decaying matter. We came upon an old homestead. There was a cabin, a barn built into the side of the hill, a well that was granite lined (I'll bet that took a long time to make!) and of course an outhouse. It was fun exploring the site. A little further down the trail we chased up a hen turkey with probably a dozen or so poults. The poults were still really small but they flew into a tall pine tree! The hen ran into the woods and some of the poults also followed her. As we came around a bend further down the trail and headed back toward the cabins we came across the doe and her fawns again! They had made it about 1/2 mile from where we'd originally seen them. The two fawns ran over to our horses! No fear at all. The doe was panicking and running back and forth very near us. One of the other riders got off his horse and tried to shoo them away. Finally one headed off and the other followed soon thereafter. We took off in the opposite direction to get away before either of the fawns tried to follow us instead of staying with the doe. What an experience! We traversed streams, mud bogs, boulder and log strewn trails, meadows and went up and down forested hills all weekend long. It was really hard to leave on Sunday! If anyone is looking for a wonderful getaway I can highly recommend the Eden Valley Guest Ranch! Our cabin was nicely furnished and comfortable, the horses each had their own corral, the scenery was spectacular and the folks who own and work the ranch were all really nice people. I'm looking forward to going back! Taffy Mercer Kennewick, WA - Where we finished baling our 2nd cutting hay today!
hauling
This message is from: lhedelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linda, I charge .50 per mile for my birthday party service. I figure it helps with all the other expenses and wear and tear on your rig. I don't think it is unreasonable. Where are you going? We've been looking for a paint for Sara for several months, and have recently expanded our search nation wide. We have a few we'd like to look at, but the expense of hauling a trailer to look at a horse you're not sure you're going to buyPerhaps we could share expenses?? Laura
hauling
This message is from: lhedelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linda, Definitely figure it round trip. Laura
dragging feet thank you
This message is from: lhedelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks to everyone with advice on my heavy footed guy. I have the farrier coming next week, so I think I'll call him and have him order the rolled toe shoes for him. Also, I think some cavaletti (sp?) work wouldn't hurt him at all. Good suggestions. Thanks.
Re: Hauling a horse
This message is from: Genie Dethloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've always paid $1.00/mile. If it is a local trip or they are just taking my horse, they would charge both ways. If it is on the way to somewhere they are going anyway with other horses, then they charge one way (mileage out of the main route is a little more per mile or they charge both ways). Any charge less than $1.00/ mile would be a gift to your friend. -- Genie Dethloff Ann Arbor, Michigan
Re: hauling
This message is from: Jean Ernest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for all the input and to Linda for asking the question! Yes, I think I will keep track of the miles and charge $.50 /mile round trip. That is a good compromise I think, for my friend...who is really just an acquaintance who just bought a Fjord last year! After all it IS wear and tear on my truck and on me plus my time! Jean in Fairbanks, Alaska I charge .50 per mile for my birthday party service. I figure it helps with all the other expenses and wear and tear on your rig.
Re: hauling
This message is from: Linda Lottie User [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for the input everyoneI think I'll go for around $.60 a mile. linda On 6/22/06 5:09 PM, lhedelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This message is from: lhedelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linda, Definitely figure it round trip. Laura
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This message is from: Linda Lottie User [EMAIL PROTECTED] Agree, Jeanand to be honest, I don't really like to haul others horsesjust not my thing. LJBL On 6/22/06 6:05 PM, Jean Ernest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This message is from: Jean Ernest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for all the input and to Linda for asking the question! Yes, I think I will keep track of the miles and charge $.50 /mile round trip. That is a good compromise I think, for my friend...who is really just an acquaintance who just bought a Fjord last year! After all it IS wear and tear on my truck and on me plus my time! Jean in Fairbanks, Alaska I charge .50 per mile for my birthday party service. I figure it helps with all the other expenses and wear and tear on your rig.
Re: Hauling a horse
This message is from: Linda Lottie User [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geniethis is a friend and I think $1.00 is fair. Twelve years ago we paid $.50 a mile for our trainer to haul. My friend is a poor vet student friend of my daughtersI'll give her a little break. But, still nice to know the going rate in case I am asked again. BTWnext week I am taking Sven to the city of Grantsburg Library for the summer kids reading program. I'll take Sven, my polka-dot Leapord App, and my sz A mini. Daughter Anne is helping. Hoping we get our photo in the paper. Whooohooo, fjords LJBL in WI On 6/22/06 5:04 PM, Genie Dethloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This message is from: Genie Dethloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've always paid $1.00/mile. If it is a local trip or they are just taking my horse, they would charge both ways. If it is on the way to somewhere they are going anyway with other horses, then they charge one way (mileage out of the main route is a little more per mile or they charge both ways). Any charge less than $1.00/ mile would be a gift to your friend.
dragging hind feet
This message is from: Bonnie Liermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Question: Do these horses also click when they walk - hind foot striking the front foot at a walk? If so I might have an answer. . . bonnie
hauling
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hauling Rates For years the price has been anywhere from .50 a mile to 1.50 a mile. You must take into consideration ... fuel, oil, wear tear on the trailer, truck, INSURANCE cost... are you covered for hauling other people's horses and you must consider your time. Government allowance repaying for use of a personal vehicle for business is $ 0.485 per mile. If I haul as a favor for a friend or good client, I charge fuel plus any extra expenses. (meal on the road, hotel, horse hotel costs...) Catherine Lassesen Hestehaven - The Horse Garden Bed, Barn, Breakfast Baskets Southern Oregon
Another cutie born at Hestehaven
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, Not sure if Amy Evers made the announcement... but I will... Number 10 was born at Hestehaven - The Horse Garden, this week. TORGRIM will be his name. Mama, Paradise's Taffeta is doing very well. Papa... Blaamann is proud as can be... and baby Torgrim is tall, leggy, very much a boy and very much says...LOOK AT ME... I do not know what was in the water this year, but all our boys are beautiful and of quality, that one HATES to geld... but unless we have someone knocking at our door... we will geld them. Anyway...congratulations to owner Amy Evers for a healthy big colt. I know Amy will have this colt for sale, (that is how she pays her bills... selling her foals)... so give Amy Evers a call if you are interested in a leggy, big gelding / stallion with the bloodlines of Blaamann and her Taffy. He has a great strong name and is just the cute one. His head is to die for... nice neck. Amy will have photos... all proud grandmas so... (giggle) We have one more foal due in the neighborhood and then we are finished for the season. It has been so much fun working with all these great foals this year. Baby mugging has been fun! Catherine Lassesen Hestehaven - The Horse Garden Bed, Barn, Breakfast Baskets Southern Oregon
Re: hauling horses
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] i just got a quote from a company who shall remain nameless to haul oz from minnesota to patti jo's place on the other side of wisconsin.$450 laurie
Richard Hinrichs / barock riding / classic dressage
This message is from: Eike Schoen-Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To all those interested in classic dressage and Barock Riding, which is what Richard Hinrichs stands for: there is somebody doing just this in a professional way with - among other breeds - Fjord Horses! Our friend Solveig Schacht bought the gelding Pan vom Oderhaff from us and took him with her when she went back to Norway after spending several years studying and training with classic dressage teachers like Bent Branderup (www.branderup.com). Solveig teaches clinics all over Norway. Check out http://www.barokkridning.no It is all in Norwegian, but she speaks English very well and would be a good reference for anybody wishing to make progress in this direction with a Fjord Horse. You could reach her under: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eike Haffwiesenhof, Germany Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 17:21:54 -0400 From: Lori Albrough [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Schooling Horses in Hand by Richard Hinrichs This message is from: Lori Albrough [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi everyone, Click on the link below to read my latest book review, of Richard Hinrich's Schooling Horses in Hand : A Means of Suppling and Collection. http://www.bluebirdlane.com/library/schooling_horses_in_hand.html Regards, Lori
RE: dragging hind feet
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A \(GE Healthcare\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonnie: Don't leave us hanging . . . Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bonnie Liermann Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 7:19 PM To: fjordhorse@angus.mystery.com Subject: dragging hind feet This message is from: Bonnie Liermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Question: Do these horses also click when they walk - hind foot striking the front foot at a walk? If so I might have an answer. . . bonnie
RE: fjordhorse-digest V2006 #137
This message is from: Shannon Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am looking to ship from Dallas Texas area to Portland Oregon in the next few weeks, can anyone recommend a good horse hauler? Thanks! Shannon Kaplan www.ChehalemMountainRanch.com
Re: Richard Hinrichs / barock riding / classic dressage
This message is from: jgayle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do not forget other Fjord riders such as Ann Appleby (Washington) on Wez (a wonderful horse). She has gone to Prix St George on him. Jean Gayle PS she is also working on her stallion in the upper ranks. Author 'The Colonel's Daughter Occupied Germany 1946 to 1949 Send: $20 to Three Horse's Press 7403 Blaine Rd Aberdeen, WA 98520
Fjord Fun
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A \(GE Healthcare\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, my daughter doesn't show, but she has fun with her pony. It probably isn't safe fun, but she rides Bendik backwards, puts cones on his back and walks him around with like 3 or 4 of those highway cones on his back, and yesterday she got him to jump a barrel laying on it's side. So she is having fun anyway. Sorta wish she would show as she has a real good horse seat, but that's just another iron in the fire. She has a little fear of the unknown in showing I think. I think she would if she had a friend that was into that sort of thing and they could do it together. Mark Skeels - where the weather has been beautiful in Helena Montana recently.
Re: hauling horses
This message is from: Genie Dethloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] i just got a quote from a company who shall remain nameless to haul oz from minnesota to patti jo's place on the other side of wisconsin.$450 laurie Laurie that comes to about $1/mile one way which is normal for a horse transport company in my experience. -- Genie Dethloff Ann Arbor, Michigan
Re: Richard Hinrichs / barock riding / classic dressage
This message is from: Douglas Knutsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hei Eike, I'm looking forward to seeing you and your wife at Libby. Best regards, Peg Knutsen www.elltel.net/kffjord/ - Original Message - From: Eike Schoen-Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: fjordhorse@angus.mystery.com Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 1:49 PM Subject: Richard Hinrichs / barock riding / classic dressage This message is from: Eike Schoen-Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To all those interested in classic dressage and Barock Riding, which is what Richard Hinrichs stands for: there is somebody doing just this in a professional way with - among other breeds - Fjord Horses! Our friend Solveig Schacht bought the gelding Pan vom Oderhaff from us and took him with her when she went back to Norway after spending several years studying and training with classic dressage teachers like Bent Branderup (www.branderup.com). Solveig teaches clinics all over Norway. Check out http://www.barokkridning.no It is all in Norwegian, but she speaks English very well and would be a good reference for anybody wishing to make progress in this direction with a Fjord Horse. You could reach her under: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eike Haffwiesenhof, Germany Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 17:21:54 -0400 From: Lori Albrough [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Schooling Horses in Hand by Richard Hinrichs This message is from: Lori Albrough [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi everyone, Click on the link below to read my latest book review, of Richard Hinrich's Schooling Horses in Hand : A Means of Suppling and Collection. http://www.bluebirdlane.com/library/schooling_horses_in_hand.html Regards, Lori
