Fjord in Costco Magazine
This message is from: fjords [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just received my Costco magazine today and on the inside back page is a picture of a Fjord at the Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center in Woodinville, WA! How exciting! In checking their web site they have 3 Fjords among their therapeutic horses. http://www.littlebit.org/ Taffy Mercer In 103* Kennewick, WA where it's to be 105* tomorrow!
Re[2]: Genetic Diversity - Another Issue.
This message is from: Mike May, Registrar NFHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 07:05 PM 7/1/2006, you wrote: This message is from: Steve McIlree [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ruthie-- Saturday, July 1, 2006, you wrote: I've been considerably encouraged since Steve made that recommendation for a world class cross-referencing DNA databank. We would love to see that initiated! I can't think of anything more worthwhile that could be done for the Fjord breed. Actually, I never recommended anything as comprehensive as a DNA databank. Actually since we have only been DNA typing for about 10 years now it wouldn't go back very far anyway. Simply a pedigree database going back as far as possible, ideally at least to Njaal 166. Our current database does go back to Njal N-166 and a bit farther. Take a look at HAKON JARL N-645 http://www.nfhr.com/ponyweb/ponyweb.cgi?horse=2766 There are a lot of horses missing for sure though. When the database was put together they only put horses in that were in pedigrees of horses that were registered. I added a lot of them a few years ago to get some of the more well known lines back as far as Njal. Mike With such data, much more accurate calculations could be made to determine Coefficient of Inbreeding. -- Steve McIlree - Pferd, Skipper Clust - Omaha, NE/Las Cruces, NM, USA There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse. --Robert Smith Surtees(1803-1864) === Norwegian Fjord Horse Registry Mike May, Executive Director Registrar PO Box 685 Webster, NY 14580-0685 Voice 585-872-4114 FAX 585-787-0497 http://www.nfhr.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Breed TYPE
This message is from: Jean Ernest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here is an excerpt from a discussion on the Equine Studies Institute Forum on type. While it is discussing the Spanish horse, I think it describes what we are thinking of when we talk about TYPE For the Fjord horse also: *** Kim, the WHOLE HORSE is of ** type. That's the part you're having trouble with. You have to let the WHOLE HORSE smack you in the eye and in the heart. It isn't his head; it isn't his back or body or legs; it isn't even the WHOLE of his bodily build; it is the very smell of him, and the way he thinks, the way he typically responds to things, how he solves problems, what his approach to life and people is. Also, importantly, the way he moves. This is what type is -- it's ALL of these things. Dr. Deb Bennett Jean in Fairbanks, Alaska, cloudy with showers, 65 degrees today
Re[3]: Genetic Diversity - Another Issue.
This message is from: Steve McIlree [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike-- Sunday, July 2, 2006, you wrote: Our current database does go back to Njal N-166 and a bit farther. Take a look at HAKON JARL N-645 That's true and really great, but I don't believe the database allows tracing every horse currently registered with the NFHR back that far. I know that would be a tremendous undertaking, because it would require coordinating all registry's studbooks, but that's the reason I propose it should be a project undertaken by the FHI. Without such a combined pedigree database it is impossible to do more than guess about the closeness of any given cross. -- Steve McIlree - Pferd, Skipper Clust - Omaha, NE/Las Cruces, NM, USA Paranoia is just knowing all the facts. --William S. Burroughs
Re: Re[2]: Genetic Diversity - Another Issue.
This message is from: jgayle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually, although I am no expert, there is certainly such a file on ancestors of Fjords in either Norway, or Germany. I base this on their interest in their own lineage!!! Jean Gayle Author 'The Colonel's Daughter Occupied Germany 1946 to 1949 Send: $20 to Three Horse's Press 7403 Blaine Rd Aberdeen, WA 98520
Re[3]: Genetic Diversity - Another Issue.
This message is from: Mike May, Registrar NFHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 11:16 AM 7/2/2006, you wrote: This message is from: Steve McIlree [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike-- Sunday, July 2, 2006, you wrote: Our current database does go back to Njal N-166 and a bit farther. Take a look at HAKON JARL N-645 That's true and really great, but I don't believe the database allows tracing every horse currently registered with the NFHR back that far. No it doesn't. I said that in my first message. When they originally went from paper log books to a database system they only put the horses in that were in pedigrees back 5 generations. None of them went back as far as Njal. I added him and a few other well known lines a few years ago. Wish I had the time to go back add all of the old lines but I just don;\'t. I know that would be a tremendous undertaking, because it would require coordinating all registry's studbooks, but that's the reason I propose it should be a project undertaken by the FHI. The only way I see it ever happening is if all of the world's registries were able to upload their own new horses as they are foaled. Even at that it would take a great deal of coordination of effort to get it to a usable state. Without such a combined pedigree database it is impossible to do more than guess about the closeness of any given cross. Yes you are right there. Mike -- Steve McIlree - Pferd, Skipper Clust - Omaha, NE/Las Cruces, NM, USA Paranoia is just knowing all the facts. --William S. Burroughs === Norwegian Fjord Horse Registry Mike May, Executive Director Registrar PO Box 685 Webster, NY 14580-0685 Voice 585-872-4114 FAX 585-787-0497 http://www.nfhr.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
