Re: How much time on pasture equals one flake of grass hay?
This message is from: Linda Lottie User [EMAIL PROTECTED] MarciaI am chuckling at the sight of your fjords galloping for their grain:) My three can be out in the pasture, I walk out there, tell them to get home and they head to the barn. They have learned that if they don't goI go get my Gator and scoot them home from the Gator. Once up at the barn I lead them with my hand under their jowl - to the dry lot - and tell them what good ponies they are :) Don't ya just love fjords??? Linda in WI On 5/21/08 11:30 PM, Marcia Pace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This message is from: Marcia Pace [EMAIL PROTECTED] Amy, I'm in central Washington State and my pasture is pretty lush right now. My fjords go out to graze for 2 hrs in the a.m. and 2 hrs in the p.m. They are not receiving any hay. They were slowly transitioned off of the hay and onto pasture once the pasture could support their grazing. It is labor intensive but saves a lot of $$ considering the price of hay. In July, as things dry out they will be allowed to stay out a bit longer. They are all an appropriate weight and good about the program. They each get 1 lb. daily of Purina's Mare Maintenance. It balances their diet and encourages them into the dry lot ( 1/2 in the morning and 1/2 in the p.m). Once they are used to the routine they come galloping in with a shake of the bucket. I bought a hanging scale from Vally Vet a couple of years ago and hanging hays bags that make it very easy to weigh hay. When the fjords are on a hay (timothy) diet they usually get 1.25% of their body weight daily. Which is often a good size flake (6-7 lbs) a.m. and p.m. For every 10 degrees below freezing I increase their hay ration by 10%. I found that without weighing the hay it was too easy to overfeed. Marcia Pace www.fjordfarm.com This message is from: Amy Goodloe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone know how long a horse would need to be out on pasture to get the equivalent of a flake of grass hay? When they were getting hay, they each got one flake in the morning and one at night, so I'm thinking I should leave them out there just long enough to get an equivalent amount of food and then keep them in dry lot the rest of the time, with a little low calorie hay for something to munch on. --Amy ~ Marehaven Farm ~*~ Longmont, CO http://www.marehaven.org The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw
Re: fjordhorse-digest V2008 #106
This message is from: Ronni Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fjord Personalities R.Taylor, Straw Hat Stables I have to tell y'all about Tigger and Thumper. I've had Tigger (Hannah) for 7 years now, and Thumper (White Rose's Miss Thunder)about 18 months. Of course, each Fjord wants to own its own person. Tigger has laid claim to me. Now that I'm dating George, who loves Fjords, Thumper has found her person. The funny part - If I go to the fence alone, both girls come running. If George whistles, and goes to the fence alone, both come running. If we are both walking up to the gate, and he whistles, Thumper comes running - but Tigger looks up (usually back) over her shoulder until I call HER name. THEN she comes to me. Sort of She's my boss, not you - unless you have food and she's not around It's funny to see, but it used to hurt George's feelings until he realized what was going on. The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw
Email problems
This message is from: Mike May [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just an FYI for everyone. We have been having some problems with the NFHR email since we completely moved to the new web site. I am working with our web host to get it fixed but it hasn't been easy to do. Nothing we have done seems to fix all of the problems. Anyway if you need to get an email to the Herald Editors for the upcoming issue of the Herald please use this address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hopefully this will be fixed within a day or so more now. Mike The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw
Re: transport Boulder, CO to Sante Fe, NM and back
This message is from: Nancy Newport [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello all, I will be transporting one horse from the Boulder, CO area to Sante Fe, NM weekend after this, May 30-31. I have room for one horse or carriage, etc. on the way down and I'm empty with a stock trailer that divides into two box stalls on the way back. Anyone needing anything moved let me know. Thnaks, Nancy Newport The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw
new grass vrs one flk hay
This message is from: Pat Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Amy Goodloe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how much time on pasture equals one flake of grass hay? It takes exactly 2.3 seconds or 4.6 mouth fulls = FFM (Fjord Full Mouths) to equal one flake of grass hay cut two years ago in a drought.. This time of the year they will also gain weight on pasture smelling it, seeing it or jogging past it. If your cutting your lawn make sure you bag it up right away - other wise just the thought of cut grass will propel the need for you to enter your Fjord into a Jenny Craig program immediately. Spring pasture + Fjord = weight gain. Newton's Law #6 ; ) Pat H The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw
fjords on grass
This message is from: Linda Lottie [EMAIL PROTECTED] As many have stated, putting fjords on lush green grass is a management issue. They can do well on grass BUT usually fjords cannot be on unlimited green grass. If an owner does not want to invest in grazing muzzles, then, management of time on pasture is the only option. Dry lots are fine.but, heck, if you are home why not let them graze a bit? I have been known to set my timer to switch horses.especially as fall arrives and pastures are getting kinda skimpy. What I have also learned in 10 years of owning fjordsif left to graze 24/7 not only will they eat every single blade of grass..they will snuzzle around and eat the roots!!! If you want to make an area a dry lot.put the fjords to work - haha!! Linda in WI The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw
Transport W. Washington to W. Montana (Lolo)
This message is from: Emily Wigley [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a client's Fjord gelding at my place who needs to go to Western Montana from the greater Seattle area. (One way only.) He is a good traveller. We have a probable ride for him, but want to throw this out there in case any one can help sooner than later. Contact me off list via email please. Thank you! Emily Emily Wigley Fish Bowl Farm Vashon Island, Wa www.fishbowlfarm.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw
Re: Fly allergies
This message is from: Cherrie Nolden [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, one dose is one of those tiny white balls, right? Do you give one a day? Cherrie jen frame [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One more idea: homeopathics. Try a remedy called Apis in the dose 30C. Jen The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw
tying
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Kate - so glad you got off so easily and no one was hurt and you will remember forever. Friends of mine tied their quiet Qhorse to a round pen panel. For some unknown reason he spooked and off he went with the panel. Gruesome story short, he severed an artery in his pastern and was put down. It does not always end well. I am glad you were lucky. Valerie Columbia CT The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw
Re: Fly allergies
This message is from: jen frame [EMAIL PROTECTED] HI Cherrie one dose is 5 of those tiny white balls. Do NOT touch those balls with your hand. Tip the vile upside down, twist the cap until 5 balls fall down into it, take the cap off, hold your horses' lip open and dump the 5 white balls onto any mucous membrane like the area between gum and cheek. If some fall out but some stay in, no problem. Do NOT pick up any fallen white balls and hand feed them to your horse--just say goodbye to them! How often to dose depends on how bad his allergies/bug bites are. If really bad, dose 3 times a day. If semi-bad, then dose twice a day. Go with your intuition on this. Stop dosing as soon as there is improvement. I once treated a friend's horse who had huge welts all over, presumably due to an insect bite of some sort. the welts were gone after 2 doses. But Sweet itch can be more difficult, and if Apis doesn't work, we'll have to try something else. Let me know how it goes. Jen On 5/22/08, Cherrie Nolden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This message is from: Cherrie Nolden [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, one dose is one of those tiny white balls, right? Do you give one a day? Cherrie jen frame [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One more idea: homeopathics. Try a remedy called Apis in the dose 30C. Jen The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw
Re: fjords on grass
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] poor oz, who somehow got a little pudgy in the last few weeks, perhaps from still having winter hay rations when it started to warm up..he is just desperate for grass. we just discovered the hard way that the electric fence in part of the pasture area where i board has been shorted out, and was off for a while. i don't like wire fences, and usually with electric he stays away, but he must have sensed they were off because all of the fencing around his dry lot is pushed outward. it's amazing how far he can reach. last night i was going over to ride, and discovered he finally broke one of the lower wires that fronts along the path between pastures. he had quite a reach. so, instead of riding, i repaired the fence and replaced the lower wire with electric rope. turned the electricity back on, and still no charge. he was ok overnight, since he can't do much with that rope and it's about the only place he tries to reach under. today i did a search and found that there was a broken insulator in the back of his pasture and the wire was on the fence, effectively grounding the whole system. sometimes i feel guilty because he doesn't get grass, except the small amount i let him eat on the way back to his pasture after a ride. but i also realize what all that really green stuff would do to him. i am opening another pasture for charlie and gizmo, and i think oz would be ok in the one they are in now, since they have pretty much eaten all the good stuff. he also has a muzzle, which i will use when i am home. it's a problem when we aren't home with them during the day to move them around as needed. laurie, and oz, who comes running when he hears me snap a carrot in half ** Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch Cooking with Tyler Florence on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4amp; ?NCID=aolfod000302) The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw
