Herd reduction for Anvil's Acres
This message is from: Anita Unrau We have decided to reduce our horse herd so we can spend more time south this winter. As a result I have horses for sale at prices suitable for everyone. Weanling colt $1500.00 brown dun May 16, 2014 sired by Olivia Farm's Norwegian Imported stallion, Skogheims Viljar and out of the mare OFI Wilhelmina Weanling filly $3500.00 brown dun April 21, 2014 sired by Skogheims Viljar and out of the mare Anvil's Katrina OFI Wilhelmina NFHR-10-6452-M $3000.00 brown dun May 25, 2010 13.2 hh sired by Bluebird Lane Griffon out of Anvil's Weilew Anvil's Katrina NFHR-08-6043-M $3500.00 brown dun May 13, 2008 13.2 hh sired by Peppertree's Christian out of KeJaCo's Katja Anvil's Daniel CFHA 3058 $3000.00 brown dun gelding 14.1hh April 25, 2007 sired by Leidjo out of Triangle E's Elskling Started riding/driving Anvil's Magnum CFHA 3057 $3500.00 brown dun gelding 14.1hh April 17, 2007 sired by Leidjo out of Anvil's Magdalena Started riding Gra Zanzibar NFHR GAS-P-2156-G $6,000.00 grey dun gelding July 4, 2002 sired by Leidjo out of Rokida's Gra Steena Used in 50K head feedlot, parades, rides English/Western, drives single/pair and packed in the mountains. For more information please call me on my cell 250-550-5315 or email at aun...@direct.ca Located in south central British Columbia. Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses Box 39 Rock Creek, BC V0H 1Y0 aun...@direct.ca Message phone # 250-446-2502 Cell # 250-550-5315 I have a unique destiny and every day that path is being revealed to me in new ways. Kathleen McGowan "Source of Miracles" "When was the Last Time you did something for the First Time" Bob Proctor Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw FH_L Shirts: http://tinyurl.com/8yky94l
Anvil's Acres Breeding Program
This message is from: Anita Unrau Many Thanks to Pat and Jean for their kind words about our Breeding Program. Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 22:26:28 -0500 From: Patricia Holland Subject: Lite Jenta This message is from: Patricia Holland I do not know Emily Wigley but the mare she is offering for sale sure looks like a wonderful prospect from the video at the end of the list posted yesterday. When I pedigreed searched I saw why she looked/acted like the way she appears - by Anvils Rikoll by RUDAREN. Along time ago I praised Orville and Anita Unrau for their breeding practices and always said anything with the ANVILS prefix is a good horse. The video shows a calm, steady, mare - with all the bells and whistles and I loved her pretty soft canter depart. Her trot could show at bit more stride but her walk was excellent - over stepping herself, thus she does have the structure to lengthen the trot. I sincerely thought her light canter was outstanding. Glad to know there are still some ANVILS out there. Someday NFHR should create an "Outstanding Breeders Life Time Achievement Award" Orville and Anita would win hands down. With respect Pat Holland Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 06:05:29 -0800 (AKDT) From: jern...@mosquitonet.com Subject: Re: Lite Jenta This message is from: jern...@mosquitonet.com I too was impressed with the mare, watching the video. So well trained, too. I agree with you about the Anvil's Fjords! They imported some great mares and stallions, Rudaren certainly was one of the best. Then they bred Rudaren daughters to Leidjo, another great stallion they imported, to produce some outstanding Fjords that can really perform!. Jean in Fairbanks, Alaska, where the Fair is starting today and of course it is raining! March 2013 will be our 40th anniversary with Fjord Horses and what an incredible journey it has been. From the first our goal was to maintain the disposition of our first Fjord, George. He set the bar for our breeding program, when very few people had set out plans for a breeding program instead of just breeding any stallion with a mare to produce a mediocre foal. We have not bred our few remaining mares for the last few years. We do still have nine Fjords between Orville, Kerry(Sam), our daughter and myself. Four mares, three geldings and two four year old stallions. The two young stallions are both Leidjo sons and Anvil's Lyn if the result of a Rudaren daughter bred to Leidjo. Both stallions are for sale if someone is looking for a proven bloodline for Disposition, Conformation and Versatility. With the price of fuel going higher and higher we are talking about using the Fjords again for transportation. Funny how things just keep on going round and around. We owe a huge THANKS to our Norwegian Fjords for everything we own from our 320 acres in British Columbia, our three houses in Mexico and all our equipment and vehicles, etc. Another huge THANK YOU to all the wonderful friends who supported us over the years and made it all possible. I truly have been blessed with a wonderful life. "How can it get any better then this" Hugs to all of you!!! Anita Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses Box 39 Rock Creek, BC V0H 1Y0 "Disposition, Conformation, Versatility since 1973" aun...@direct.ca Message phone # 250-446-2502 I am committed to Free Choice, Personal Responsibility in Integrity I have a unique destiny and every day that path is being revealed to me in new ways. Kathleen McGowan "Source of Miracles" How can it get any better than this? Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw Classified Ads: http://tinyurl.com/5b5g2f
Congratulations To Olivia Farm
This message is from: Anita Unrau I want to say Thank You to Solveig and Dan Watanabe, of Olivia Farm, on the purchase of Anvil's Weilew, Anvil's Line, KeJaCo's Katrine, KeJaCo's Katja, Anvil's Lyna and Anvil's Stina. These six mares are some of the best of the best of our 36 years of breeding quality Norwegian Fjord Horses. We are so happy these mares will be continuing to produce outstanding foals for Olivia Farms Breeding Program. We look forward to seeing what the stallions Solveig and Dan choose to breed to these outstanding mares will produce for Olivia Farm in the future. Anita and Orville Unrau Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses Rock Creek, BC 250-550-5315 http://fjordhorseforsale.com/FjordHorseForSale.html Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw Classified Ads: http://tinyurl.com/5b5g2f
Anvil's Riderlig sold to Michael Melbye
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Congratulations to Michael Melbye on his purchase of Anvil's Riderlig, the outstanding son of Anvil's Regin and Anvil's Magi Fjell. Riderlig is one of those rare stallions that stand out where ever he goes. With size, dark brown color, lots of black markings, conformation and most of all a willing, gentle disposition Riderlig will enhance Michael's breeding program. Our daughter, Kerry(Sam), will have Riderlig this spring and will be training him for riding and driving. Michael will then be taking Riderlig home for the breeding season. Look for Anvil's Riderlig at Libby this year and maybe other places as well. Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses PO Box 39 Rock Creek, BC Canada V0H 1Y0 250-446-2502 "Disposition, Conformation, Versatility Since 1973" http://mypage.direct.ca/a/aunrau/
Anvil's Acres Update.
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Just a quick update for everyone asking what is happening here at Anvil's Acres. We sold our house and 314 acres so moved to the 320 acres up the mountain and living in a 400' cabin that needed extensive work. Orville worked in Pinedale, Wyoming this summer and with 14 days on and 14 days off, with a day and a half to get home and back to work had about 10 days to work at home. We put in about 2000' of water line for the horses and the cabin, put in septic system, gravity water to cabin, Solar system, sheds, corrals, fences, leanto for mares and foals and everything else that is needed. As well redone the cabin inside to make it livable for us. Put in a vanity, toilet and shower in a bathroom 5'x5'. What a switch from four bathrooms in the house. Did splurge on a Soapstone wood stove and got a crash course on tiling and grouting. Really enjoy the wood heat and the 80 degree cabin reminds me of our winters training and competing in Florida and Georgia. We did not get to compete at all this summer so Orville is taking time off in 2006 to compete again. Will make a decision once spring comes as to what and who we will drive. Four, pair or single? Every day Orville got to stay at home this fall was a gift and finally on November 1st he got a call to go back to work after weeks of hard physical work at home. He was ready to go back to work to have a rest as we had been going from dawn till dusk since May when the offer was made on the house. Nov. 2 was Orville's birthday and he spent it flying out of Kelowna airport for Toronto and a one hour stop to get on the Halifax flight and was in Truro, NS that night. We found out at 4 pm he was leaving the next morning so tried to get as much winterizing done as we could before he left. Orville may be east until spring so if that happens I will be going down to spend some time with him. I know some of the Fjord people in the maritimes but if all the Fjord people in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI let us know where you are we will try and get a visit in. We still have lots to do and hopefully Orville will get home for two weeks soon to finish off a few projects that need doing before winter really sets in. Like haul home our hay. With the weather a lot cooler now I get to sit down and enjoy my new Satellite internet and get caught up on emails. We plan on a VOIP phone in the next week or two as well. Will send that info out to everyone when I get the new phone number. In the meantime have kept the house phone number as a message phone. The horses seem to be settling in and getting used to being fed at the corrals now. The stallions, mares and foals are all in pens and paddocks and also settled down well to their new quarters. Next year we will build more paddocks to give the horses we keep in more room. Always something for next year. Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses PO Box 39 Rock Creek, BC Canada V0H 1Y0 250-446-2502 "Disposition, Conformation, Versatility Since 1973" http://mypage.direct.ca/a/aunrau/
Leidjo returns to Anvil's Acres
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Leidjo is back at Anvil's Acres thanks to all the in depth investigating that Laura Kranzusch and Lisa Pederson did on behalf of Leidjo and Anvil's Stina, Anvil's Lyna and Triangle E's Elskling. After I posted on the list that Leidjo's where abouts where unknown Lisa and Laura started doing some digging around. After months of research, questions, many, many phone calls back and forth between us and with the help of Nyla Nanoit's son, Dan, we finally narrowed down the area where Nyla's "Charitable Organization" (ask Lisa for that story) sold Leidjo and the three mares. When the "lady" representing this Organization, who had phoned numerous times, phoned once more to "discuss" the situation she let slip the first name of the women who had in all innocence bought Leidjo and the three mares off Nyla. Again Lisa and Laura (who Orville dubbed Thelma and Louise) dug even deeper and found me a name, an address and more importantly a phone number. I phoned and she confirmed she had bought Leidjo and the three mares off Nyla. Through various, nefarious, negotiations we finally worked out a deal between Nyla, the lady who now had Leidjo and ourselves. End of July I meet Orville in Pinedale, Wyoming with my truck when he was ready for days off and with the new aluminum stock trailer he had bought from a dealer in Pinedale, we set off for Wisconsin. With only two weeks off it was a mad trip to Green Bay to sort things out with Nyla and to go pick up Leidjo, Stina, Lyna and Elie. It was a shock to see the three mares where heavy in foal and looked ready to drop any time soon. Leidjo had had an accident last fall with a mower, that was left in the pasture and had badly scarred hind hooves. Other than the scars on Leidjo all four Fjords looked well cared for. We loaded up Leidjo, the three mares and a grey son of Leidjo's that we bought and headed home. It worked out that both Lisa and Laura could be nearby and helped us celebrate the return of Leidjo and the mares. Our first good stop was at Roger and Diane Whitney's where we unloaded and cleaned out the trailer. The mares and gelding where doing well but Leidjo was having a hard time with a stifle injury that we did not notice when we picked them up. Heading home once again we had no problems until we got to the Canadian Border at Osoyoos when two ladies without much to do decided I was misrepresenting the gelding and proceeded to search my truck, all my paperwork, my purse, interrogations in the back room and three hours later finally let us leave to drive the one hour home and unload the horses. Both mares had the opportunity to foal in the pasture below the house where most of their past foals had been born. Stina had a beautiful white dun filly August 25th and Elie had her brown dun filly on Sept. 26th. Lyna is due sometime in early 2006. They are now moved into their new paddocks and have settled in nicely. Leidjo will be available for breeding in the 2006 season and possibly it will be at Pederson's. Again many thanks to Thelma and Louise as it couldn't have been possible with out you. Love you both. Hugs Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses PO Box 39 Rock Creek, BC Canada V0H 1Y0 250-446-2502 "Disposition, Conformation, Versatility Since 1973" http://mypage.direct.ca/a/aunrau/
Any one live near I 90 in the Buffalo, Wyoming area?
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello Fjord List, Is there anyone on the list who lives near I 90 in Buffalo or Sheridan, Wyoming? If so could you please email me privately. Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses PO Box 39 Rock Creek, BC Canada V0H 1Y0 250-446-2502 "Disposition, Conformation, Versatility Since 1973" http://mypage.direct.ca/a/aunrau/
Re:Anvil's Acres Breeding Criteria
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Of my other Fjords, both are of Anvil's breeding (but not all that closely related), and I believe neither of them is close behind. It would be interesting to hear Anita's take on this, but I have the impression that it was one of the Unrau's major criteria when they shopped for horses in Norway. Yes, Gail, Conformation was a priority when in Norway looking for a stallion and later the mares, Leidjo and Orrjo. Our first goal in our breeding program was disposition in our mares and even more important in our stallions. In 1981 when we were in Norway looking for a new stallion we were paying 21 1/2% on our borrowed money and we were determined to get the best we could for our lifetime investment. I still have the pictures of all the stallions we looked at that spring. Gjest was one of the many stallions Jon Hegdal took us to see. We continued looking for quite a few more days and did eventually have Jon show us a stallion we felt would compliment our mares at home. It was much, much harder to find the quality we wanted than we ever thought. We were so naive that we thought we could go to Norway and have multiple choices of stallions to choose from. Instead we found our original mares where top quality and it was hard to find a stallion to complement them. Rudaren was our first and only choice to bring home. Jon had to do some mean negotiating to make Rudy available to us. He finally came home to Canada. We did consider also bringing the stallion Norulv home for the Rudaren daughters but changed our minds when we went back in the fall. The only other stallion that made our maybe list was Myrstien, but Orville dropped him to third place because of conformation not quite suitable even though he had an incredible disposition which continues on in Holland today. Norulv's full brother Nordal is also well known in Holland. Our main objective in Conformation when we were in Norway was to improve the hindquarters, legs, gaskin, etc on the Fjord as a breed. Most of the Fjords had great front ends and very weak in the hindend. I think even today the Rudy offspring stand out with their inside muscling, length of hip, size of joints and staying sound but best of all DISPOSITION. Close behind can lead to many different difficulties in a using horse. If the hind leg is not straight, but leans to the inside, this puts excessive pressures on the outside of the hocks and can lead to unsoundness. Also brushing of the hind legs when moving can happen. Ask Orville about Strausser's interference problems. He is the Hanoverian gelding we took to Ebbs, Austria in 1998 for the World Championships. Strausser has permanent calluses on all four fetlocks, however less on the hind than the front. We always laughed and said he was so fast in the hazard's because he had a leg already in whatever direction we wanted to go. Anita Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses PO Box 39 Rock Creek, BC Canada 250-446-2502 "Disposition, Conformation, Versatility Since 1973" http://mypage.direct.ca/a/aunrau/
Geldings for sale
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Anvil's Acres has three gelding for sale. Anvil's Jarald and Anvil's Ibn are brown dun, full brothers, nine and eight years old. Jarry has been driven in a pair, three abreast doing field work, four in hand on the wheel or as a leader. He has been rode a few times but most of his time has been spent driving. Jarry is shy for a Fjord and not one to be in your pocket all the time. He prefers to have you come to him and does not like to join the crowd. Ibn has spent as much time riding as driving. He has been used single on the work cart doing chores such as feeding and hauling hay, used as a pair and three abreast working in the field. Ibn is forward and alert and used out on trail rides in the hills. Both geldings stand quietly in the crossties, standing stalls, to hook and unhook. They are used to being hosed off after working, electric clippers, being shod and feet trimmed, etc. The price for the pair is $8500.00 US. Anvil's Mektig is a four year old brown dun gelding that Orville had started his groundwork to prepare him for riding this spring and now does not have time to do much more work with him. He is used to electric clippers, stands on the high line, cross ties, standing stall, easy to catch and always coming over to see what you are doing and wants to do something with you. Mek has distinctive dark brown eye markings that show his inquistive nature. He is ready for someone to start riding and driving. Price is $3500.00 US We are currently looking for a ride for a Fjord to go east if anyone is traveling from the northwest to the east coast. Let us know if there is room for at least one horse. Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses PO Box 39 Rock Creek, BC Canada 250-446-2502 "Disposition, Conformation, Versatility Since 1973" http://mypage.direct.ca/a/aunrau/
Leidjo-Anvil's Stina daughter for sale
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I received a phone call from Cara Greger in Montana and she has Anvil's Rebekka and her filly Flikka for sale. Rebekka is a full sister to Jean Ernest's Anvil's Adel and the white dun gelding, Anvil's Rethel, that was shown at Blue Earth this summer. Rebekka is registered with the CFHA #1005 as well as the NFHR # AA-E-2326-M. Rebekka was born April 17, 1991 and one of the few brown dun foals Stina had. Rebekka worked almost every day on the movie set of "The 13th Warrior". Flikka is registered with the NFHR # AA-O-2327-M and born March 30, 2001. She is trained to ride and was used for lessons for children. For more information contact: Cara Greger Phone number 406-580-4349 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here is a broodmare for someone wanting the Leidjo, Rudaren and Stella bloodlines. Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses PO Box 39 Rock Creek, BC Canada 250-446-2502 "Disposition, Conformation, Versatility Since 1973" http://mypage.direct.ca/a/aunrau/
Re: Anvil's Acres
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Gail, I was going to answer your message in private but got thinking that others may be interested in an update as well. We still have 18 Fjords here at Anvil's Acres with the last three Anvil's Acres foals coming end of May-beginning of June. Unless we get the three mares sold before then. Orville is finding it hard to work away from home then when he comes home trying to get caught up on all the daily maintenance and training much less trying to compete at CDE's or shows. Our son, Corey, is now working for the same company as Orville. He finally got out of the unreliable forest industry a year ago and really enjoying being a "mud man". Jason, our middle child, came home last fall and has made it possible for me to leave home once in awhile by doing our chores for us. He has spent the last few years as a diving Instructor in the Cayman Islands and with Royal Caribbean Cruise lines. He is in the process of a career change. Meanwhile I am taking full advantage. We just got home after two weeks travelling the Yucatan in Mexico. Our first ever vacation with out horses in 33 years. Our daughter, Kerry, or Sam as we always called her, has fulfilled her dream of moving back to Alberta. She has bought an acreage south of Calgary and her and her horses are working at a 40,000 head feedlot. She really enjoys her job as a pen rider and enjoys working cattle. She supplements her income with outside horses in for training. So far we have been that income. She has one of our horses in training at all times. She sells her trained horses or will do some horsetrading for green ones and puts a few months in the feedlot on them and resells them. She specializes in all around family horses that ride western, english, jump, drive, etc. As to Anvil's Regin, he is now living in California. Jaimie Braaton moved from Yakima to California last year. She is doing some breeding with Regin with her own mares. We do have a three year old son of Regin's here that is very dark. The darkest foal we have ever raised. He also is going to mature quite large like his parents. We will not be breeding him to the mares this year and are debating whether to geld him and use him with his sister as our new driving pair. The where abouts of Leidjo at this time is unknown. We sold him to Nyla Naniot in Greenbay, Wisc. She had financial difficulties and did not finish paying for him. We have the bottom half of our property for sale and land is selling quite fast in our area. Best weather in Canada. We are continuing our downsizing of all our horses as we will be living without improvements on the top parcel. Chores must be a lot easier for the next winter. We have four geldings left to sell and 12 mares and fillies. Orville would like to compete more at Combined Driving and plans on competing at at least one more World Championship. Strausser, the Hanoverian that took us to Ebbs, Austria, will probably stay here as well as Bubba, that we made alternate with the Canadian team for the ill fated Gladstone World Championships. It was great to get caught up on your and Jim"s and your Mother's lives. I am still waiting for us to have time to stop in and see Luisa's son. We haven't been able to get to California for a number of years. Since Orville started working. Let us know when you will be visiting BC and we will try and meet you somewhere. Have a great summer. Anita Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses PO Box 39 Rock Creek, BC Canada 250-446-2502 "Disposition, Conformation, Versatility Since 1973" http://mypage.direct.ca/a/aunrau/
Anvil's Lorens
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thank You, Monica, for your praise of Anvil's Lorens and in a few words describing what our breeding program has been about. Out of the three mares left that we have been breeding, two of the mares are full sisters to Lorens, Anvil's Weilew and Anvil's Lisbet. We have really enjoyed working with the Anvil's Lyna and Leidjo offspring. The next generation is again continuing the big heart, wanting to please attitude, and athletic ability that this cross of bloodlines has produced. We look forward to hearing more about Lorens in the future. Anita Unrau http://mypage.direct.ca/a/aunrau/ This message is from: "Monica Spencer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My neighbour across the street has a Fjord stallion bred by the Unraus, Anvil's Lorens. She bought him sight unseen out of a pasture in Alberta because she just had a feeling about him (and because his photos showed him to be in pretty poor condition and she wanted to get him out of there). He was halterbroke and the Unraus had given him some good manners during his first year of life, but he'd never been ridden and he hadn't been handled in a few years. At the time I thought she was a bit nuts. But as it turns out I've never seen a stallion (and few geldings) with such a sweet, cooperative nature. He is kind hearted, completely gentle, absolutely bombproof. She can ride him anywhere and he'll try anything she asks. He has plenty of energy, strength and stamina but is tractable and willing and easy to handle.
Anvil's Acres
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks Pat, Jean and all the people who emailed us privately for your kind words about our Anvil's Acres breeding program. Thirty one years sounds like a long time but it has gone so fast it seems like yesterday it was 1981 and we were importing Rudaren and the mares from Norway. Then back in 1985 for Leidjo and Orrjo. The Rudaren daughters bred to Leidjo were a source of great pride in our program. We are slowly winding down our breeding program. Anvil's Morgen, a Modellen son and Rei Halsnaes grandson, was sold last month to Solveig Watanabe. We have a two year old son of Regin's that is showing a lot of potential. Looks almost identical to his sire having Regin's size, color and most of all his gentleman's disposition. We had planned on quitting the breeding program but every time we look at Riderlig think maybe we will stay breeding just a little longer. Combined Driving is still beckoning and Orville wants to do at least one more World Championship. As we learnt the last time this involves a lot of time and money. Anyone interested in some trained geldings, bred mares or young stock give us a call. Anita and Orville Unrau P O Box 39 Rock Creek, B. C. 250-446-2502 "Disposition, Conformation,Versatility since 1973" http://mypage.direct.ca/a/aunrau/
Lincoln Creek CDE
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Just wanted to let everyone know how well the Fjords were represented at the Lincoln Creek CDE on the weekend. Lincoln Creek is a Combined Training site with a wonderful water hazard that Lynn and Pat Mahonney with the help of Mickey Lofgren let us Combined Drivers have a fun time with our driving event. China Larabe was entered in the Preliminary Single Pony division with her brown dun mare, Juni. She had a second place in Dressage, went clean in cones and combined with a good marathon, China finished up the show with a first place win for Single Pony Preliminary Division. "Fjords Rule" as they said when we pulled in. Margaret McLaughlin was also there with her Fjord mare in the Prelim Single Pony Division. She did very well with a clean cones round to put her in third place after Dressage and Cones. Orville and I took KeJaCo's Judit and KeJaCo's Herger, a full brother and sister pair that we competed last year at Bird's Hill CDE and High Country in Calgary in the Prelim Division. We decided to get serious this year and entered in the Intermediate pair pony division. We were the only Intermediate Pair Pony so I will give our results overall Intermediate. Herger is really coming along with his lengthen trot and getting some collection and Judit is working on hers. We did the Intermediate Dressage test #3, which is a different test with the halt and back on the diagonal. With a score of 52.89 we were in second place after dressage. Orville had one ball down in cones and no time penalties in real tough cones course. Cones moved us into first place overall Intermediate. The marathon was a challenge with sucker gates in every hazard. The F gate was across most of the hazard in several hazards and only one small way to go or you had to go all around the outside to get to every gate. Orville worked on driving smooth and other than hazard 5, which was Interdediate only, this strategy did work very well as we won the marathon of seven hazards with A to F gates in every hazard. Very tight technical hazards with devious Nancy Van Deen as course designer, making a tough course to negotiate and no room for mistakes with out a course correction. We did our 10 minute walk in 9 min and 34 seconds. The walk section was not an easy walk as heavy going and long grass in places as well as the blackberry's grabbing once in a while. We had a great time and a chance to visit our driving friends that we have missed over the last few years we didn't get to compete. Sure feels good to be back competing. Now to get to work practicing for the High Country CDE in Calgary the Labor Day weekend. Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses "Disposition, Conformation, Versatility since 1973" Rock Creek, B.C. V0H 1Y0 250-446-2502 http://mypage.direct.ca/a/aunrau [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fjords for Sale
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The week of June 20th we will be in the midwest delivering Fjords to their new owners. We still have room for another one if you are interested in buying something now. For Sale is Anvil's Matteus, two year old brown dun gelding, out of Anvil's Weilew and Anvil's Morgen priced at $3,500.00 US. KeJaCo's Jansy, two year old 13.3 hh, brown dun filly, out of Anvil's Juli and Anvil's Morgen is the sire. Jansy stands quietly in cross ties, tie stall or the high line. Very personable and comes when called. Priced at $4,000.00 US. KeJaCo's Herger, seven year old, 14.1 hh, brown dun gelding. Full brother to above filly. Drove single, pair, three abreast, four in hand and rode on trail rides in the mountains. Used on some farm equipment and as a hook horse for training the young ones. Competed as a pair in CDE's and won overall preliminary Division.. Priced at $7,000.00 US KeJaCo's Josefa, five year old, 14.3 hh brown dun filly. Full sister to Jansy and Herger. Has been drove pair on carriage, sleighs and three abreast on the harrows. Stands quietly in tie stalls, cross ties, high line and to hook and unhook. Price is $12,000.00 US For more information and pictures about these Fjords or others we have for sale please phone or email. Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses PO Box 39 Rock Creek, BC, Canada V0H 1Y0 250-446-2502 http://mypage.direct.ca/a/aunrau/ "Disposition, Conformation, Versatility since 1973"
Fjords for Sale:$2500.00 US each
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Weanling colt, brown dun, born May 28, 2003. Sire is Anvil's Morgen and Dam is Anvil's Lisbet, daughter of Leidjo, Granddaughter of Rudaren. Weanling colt, dark brown dun, born about 1pm on May 28, 2003. Sire is Anvil's Morgen and Dam is Anvil's Juli, daughter of Leidjo, Granddaughter of Rudaren. This beautiful dark brown colt is a full brother to the pair we drove and competed with great success this past summer. Yearling gelding, brown dun, born April 10, 2002. Sire is Anvil's Morgen and Dam is Anvil's Lisbet. Yearling gelding, brown dun, born May 7, 2002. Sire is Anvil's Morgen and Dam is Anvil's Weilew. Both mares are full sisters and this pair of yearlings are closely matched for the person looking for a well matched, general purpose pair of Fjord geldings. Excellent temperament, willing and a joy to work with. Suitable for Combined Driving, Pleasure riding or driving. For more information and pictures email or phone us with your questions. Anita Unrau -- Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses PO Box 39 Rock Creek, BC, Canada V0H 1Y0 250-446-2502 http://mypage.direct.ca/a/aunrau/ "Disposition, Conformation, Versatility since 1973"
Fjords for sale $3500.00 US each
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brown dun yearling filly for sale. Sire is Anvil's Morgen-Modellen & Rei Halsnaes breeding. Dam is Anvil's Juli- Leidjo, Rudaren bloodlines. Born May 16, 2002. Easy to catch, personable and fun to be around. Wonderful disposition, excellent conformation and suitable for a brood mare prospect. Full sister to pair we competed and won Reserve Inter provincial Championship at Birds Hill CDE in July. B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba represented for the Interprovincials. Brown dun two year old gelding for sale. Sire is Anvil's Morgen and Dam is Anvil's Weilew. Born April 11, 2001. Quiet, easy to catch, spent summer turned out on the mountain learning how to be balanced and agile in rough terrain. Ready to start training for riding or driving. Stands quietly in cross ties or tie stalls. Enjoys being in the barn and worked with. Also have several single and pair harness for sale at various prices. Anita Unrau -- Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses PO Box 39 Rock Creek, BC, Canada V0H 1Y0 250-446-2502 http://mypage.direct.ca/a/aunrau/ "Disposition, Conformation, Versatility since 1973"
For sale well matched pair of Geldings $3500.00 US Each
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Seven year old, 14.1 h.h. brown dun gelding for sale. Born April 24, 1996. Anvil's Morgen is the sire and dam is Anvil's Rebekka. Drives single, pair, four in hand on the lead or wheel. Stands quietly to hook and unhook, in cross ties, standing tie stall. Used to do chores, discing, harrowing, etc. $3,500.00 US Six year old, 14.1 h.h. brown dun gelding for sale. Foaled April 30, 1997. Full brother to above gelding and currently being driven together to do the feeding and other farm chores. Drives single, pair and ridden on trails. Stands quietly for hooking and unhooking, loading hay, cross ties, standing stalls, etc. $3,500.00 US. Both geldings have excellent work ethics and enjoy having a job to do. Also have their draft harness for sale, complete with bridles, lines, etc for $500. For more information and pictures email or phone. Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses PO Box 39 Rock Creek, BC, Canada V0H 1Y0 250-446-2502 http://mypage.direct.ca/a/aunrau/ "Disposition, Conformation, Versatility since 1973"
Fjord Geldings for sale. $2500.00 apiece
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi All, Just wanted to let everyone know we have three geldings for sale at $2500.00 US each. Anvil's Mektig: 2001 dark brown dun gelding sired by Anvil's Morgen out of Anvil's Weilew. General purpose type. Very dark brown markings on face and around eyes. Excellent riding or driving prospect. KeJaCo's Hakon: 2001 dark brown dun gelding sired by Anvil's Regin out of KeJaCo's Halga. General purpose with a dark face. Will make an wonderful all around horse. KeJaCo's Jakob: 2000 light brown dun gelding sired by Anvil's Morgen out of Juli. Little more leggy than the others. Has a showy presence about him that catchs your eye. Super driving or riding prospect. The right age for someone to start working with. All three spent the summer running out on the mountain where they learnt how to handle themselves on rough terrain. Winter time now they are in paddocks and with shedding season now started I am out there during the day trying to keep up with all that hair. The geldings have been taught to stand quietly in standing stalls and cross ties. For more information on each one we can be reached at 250-446-2502 or email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for pictures. Anita Unrau Rock Creek, B.C. -- Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses http://mypage.direct.ca/a/aunrau/ "Disposition, Conformation, Versatility since 1973"
Re:Fuzzy coats
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I do think it IS bloodlines and Adel may have inherited some of her coat > characteristics from Line, but I wonder what Leidjo looks like in the winter? > > Jean in Fairbanks, Alaska. Geese and cranes starting to fly south. Hi Jean, Leidjo did have a short fuzzy coat in the winter. Didn't matter how cold it got in Alberta or here in B.C. never did grew long. Most of his offspring have the same type of winter coat. We have had one mare shedding since the end of July and now most are shedding and getting a heavier coat. Our experience has been that feed has a bigger factor than weather or bloodlines as to the length of coat. We have bought horses with very long winter coats and once here start to have short fuzzy winter coats. We feed irrigated orchard grass/alfalfa hay year round to horses kept at the house and usually feed barley/oats to the young stock , working horses or anyone on the thinner side. The horses we call the outside horses are the ones running out on 600 acre and they get a minimal amount of hay in the winter and if anyone starts to lose weight we move them closer to home and they go on a heavier feeding program. We are just starting to bring yearlings in now as the grass is almost gone with the dry weather we are having. The two year olds will probably come in next. I can't think of a single horse on the place that has a long winter coat. Fjord or non Fjord. Anita Unrau
Re: Anvil's Rethel's Dressage
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks Brigid and Jean for your comments. Jean why don't you see if other people would be interested in Sam going up to Alaska and doing a clinic on starting a young horse. She starts them on the ground and when rode for the first time usually can do walk, trot, canter transitions up and down, canter departs on the correct lead, leg yield, turn on the forehand, turn on the haunches, started neck reining if needed, as well as some other commands I can't recall at the moment. Too bad I don't live closer, I would have Sam work with my Anvil's Adel, another of the Stina/Leidjo daughters. And of course they all go back to Stella and her mom Line, both white duns. Can you tell I am proud or what? I know Adel could do great things , but I don't have the expertise to teach her, nor is there a good trainer available here. Jean in Fairbanks, Alaska, sunny but the fall colors are sure showing! > UPDATE: I had a few facts wrong when I posted Saturday night. Sam was riding four Tests on Sunday. Saturday was a schooling show and Sunday the main show with bigger classes and tougher competition. It poured rain during all four of her tests. I did manage to get some pics though. Will get Jason to put on our web page when he gets home for a holiday the 17th. Here are their scores: Walk Trot Test A a score of 67.23 for four place Walk Trot Test A a score of 67.78 for third place Walk Trot Test B a score of 67.50 for a third place Walk Trot Test B a score of 69.00 for a second place Now Sam is definitely hooked on ridden Dressage. She is entering Rethel in another show a couple of hours the other direction in the next level. This will give her time to tune up his lead changes and improve on his weak points at the show. I sure enjoyed listening to the comments by the spectators. Worth getting up early and feeding in the dark and driving to see the tests being ridden. Almost all the other horses at the show were either TB or Warmbloods. Rethel definitely stood out. Anita Unrau Rock Creek, B.C.
Fjord wins Dressage classes
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Many of you know our daughter Sam (Kerry). She rode two BasicWalk/Trot Dressage tests today with our white dun gelding Anvil's Rethel. The Kelowna Riding Club's Summer Dressage Competition is Sam's first time showing at a ridden Dressage show. She has been doing eventing and some combined driving over the last few years. It was Rethel's first time in a box stall, at a show and in a ridden dressage ring. To top it off they were the first go at 8:00 am this morning with her first test and received a 63.89 for first place. The second place was in the fifties. Her second test she got a 65 and again the second place horse was in the fifties. A lady watching came up after her test and said how nice it was and to work on her accuracy at the halt at X. This lady was coaching a several of her own students yet took the time to give Sam some encourgement and a point to grow on. Tomorrow she rides six tests and hopefully will continue with Rethel as relaxed and round as he was today. Sam makes her living training horses and giving lessons and clinics. Rethel gets put to use in whatever capacity he is needed in around here, whether a lesson horse or for some friend or relative to ride up the mountain. We do not have a ridden dressage ring set up so when Sam couldn't take her TB mare to the show, rather than loose her entry fee she decided early in the week to take Rethel. She did all her dressage tune ups while riding fence, looking for horses or out in the driving dressage ring. If Sam keeps this ridden dressage up we will have to make her a 20x40 ring. It really is true that the kids never do really move out they just get more expensive tastes. Her own place is across the river but most of her horses and tack are still here. Rethel is for sale if anyone is interested in a trained gelding. Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Rock Creek, B.C.
Re:Modellen offspring for sale.
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> With all the talk on the Digest about Modellen offspring I thought I would mention that we have a son for sale. Anvil's Morgen is a 1988 Brown Dun Fjord Stallion standing 14.3 h.h. Sired by the imported white stallion Modellen, N# 1919, and out of the imported brown dun mare Lena, N# 13961, who is a daughter of the gray stallion, Fjord Viking. Modellen offers pure Norwegian Bloodlines as well as disposition, size and athletic ability to your breeding program. Morgen has been ridden English, Western and driven single. We have used him for some hand breeding but mostly pasture breeding. He is quiet, comes when called and gentle with the mares and foals. We have sons and daughters of Morgen's that have matured at 15 h.h. Morgen passes on his big brown eyes to all his sons and daughters. For more information and pictures email or phone. Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Rock Creek, B.C. 250-446-2502 Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses http://mypage.direct.ca/a/aunrau/ "Disposition, Conformation, Versatility since 1973"
GELDINGS FOR SALE
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > FOR SALE: Yearling brown dun general purpose type gelding. Sire is > Anvil's > Regin and Dam is KeJaCo's Halga. A Anvil's Morgen daughter, Leidjo Granddaughter. This young gelding enjoys being with people, is easy to catch, stands quietly in standing stall and cross ties. Athletic, balanced conformation, and currently turned out on mountainside with the other young ones so he can learn how to handle himself in all types of terrain. Price: $1500.00 US FULL BROTHERS FOR SALE: Two year old brown dun gelding. Sire is Anvil's Morgen and Dam is a Leidjo daughter, Rudaren Granddaughter. Good sound conformation with an excellent wither for a great riding prospect. Should mature 14.1-14.2 hh. Used to standing stall and cross ties. Quiet and ready to start training. Also turned out on mountain at present time. Price: $2500.00 US. Five year old brown dun gelding with dark leg markings. Always one of the first ones to come and see you. Full brother to two year old. Has been driven as a pair and on the lead as well as on the wheel of the four in hand. Stands quietly to hook and unhook. Has excellent work ethics and most of all enjoys being with you and learning new things. He is supple and forward while still gentle and well mannered. Has an exceptional good wither to hold a saddle. Price: $5000.00 US. For more information contact by email or phone 250-446-2502. Anita Unrau Rock Creek, B.C. -- Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses http://mypage.direct.ca/a/aunrau/ "Disposition, Conformation, Versatility since 1973"
Fjords for Sale
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello everyone > > Just a quick note to say that Orville will be home the end of the month and we > > will be making a trip south to Nevada, Arizona and California to deliver > horses. > > Here are a few of the Fjords we have for sale. If you are interested in one > of > these or something taller, younger, etc. please contact us. > For Sale: > Anvil's Viktoria > Sire: Anvil's Morgen. Dam: Queen > This 14.1hh, three year old filly is well started under saddle both in the > arena and out on the trail. Viktoria does walk, trot, canter transitions, > turn on the forhand, turn on the haunches, leg yields, canter departs and > canters in a 20 m > circle both ways. > Viktoria enjoys going up the mountain for trail rides, either by herself or > with a group. > She has been driven single on a two wheeled cart and stands quietly to hook > and unhook. > She will make an excellent broodmare and pleasure driving/riding horse or if > you want to be > competitive a Combined Driving prospect. > Price is $6,000.00. > > Anvil's Herger > Sire: Anvil's Morgen. Dam: Anvil's Juli > Four year old, Brown dun, l4.1 hh gelding that rides and drives. We drove > Herger with Rethel last > winter for our sleigh rides. Herger enjoys going out and doing something > with you, whether > riding up the mountain or driving single or pair. Herger is a draft type > Fjord . > Price is $6,000.00. > > Anvil's Rethel > Sire: Leidjo. Dam: Anvil's Stina > Rare white dun gelding. This four year old stands l4.1hh and has personality > plus. Gentle and kind but athletic enough > to go upper level CDE if you have Pony Championship dreams in mind. Ret has > had extensive arena work > under saddle as well as lots of miles on the trail. He does leg yields, > canter departs, canter 20 metre circles, > turn on the forhand and haunches. > Has been drove single as well as pair and Orville used Ret > last winter to train the other colts he started driving to drive in the > pair. Rethel is the type of Fjord for that > special someone looking for a companion as well as a pleasure and competitive > horse. > Price is $7,000.00 > Anvil's Rebe Sire: Anvil's Regin Dam: Anvil's Rebekka Tall, slim, brown dun yearling filly. Enjoys being with people. Easy to catch whether in a paddock or out on the mountain side. Stands quietly in standing stall and cross ties. Handled since birth. Price: $3,000.00 > -- > Anvil's Acres > Norwegian Fjord Horses > Box 39 > Rock Creek, B.C. > VOH 1Y0 > > http://mypage.direct.ca/a/aunrau/ > "Disposition, Conformation, Versatility since 1973"
For Sale:yearling colt-white & grey bloodlines
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> FOR SALE: Anvil's Lense- brown dun colt, born May 5, 2000. Sire is Leidjo, Norwegian Stamb.nr. 1945. Leidjo's sire is Bjorkar 1871 and his dam is the gray dun mare Gramoy 14176 and her sire is the gray stallion, Jolstra-Graen 1780 and his sire was the gray stallion Gramann 1730 and dam Graa 13455 also a gray dun. Lense's dam is Anvil's Lyna. Sire is Rudaren, Norwegian Stamb. nr. 1853. Sire: Freidig 1723 and Dam: Solvi 13215. Solvi also has gray dun bloodlines in her pedigree. Lyna's Dam is the white dun mare Line, Norwegian Stambk. nr. 13475, owned by Mary Thurman. Lyna is a half sister to Faksi, the gullsblakk mare in Norway that much has been written about on the Fjord Digest. Lense is 54" tall at 14 months and has a good length of hip, excellent withers and balanced conformation.. Lense's short, kind head shows his gentle nature and he is a true gentleman. Easy to catch , stands quietly and just wants to please. This colt will make a stallion prospect for the breeder looking for athletic ability, movement, but most importantly wanting outstanding disposition in a breed noted for disposition. Contact me if wanting pictures of Lense and his sire and dam or more information. Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses Rock Creek, B.C. 250-446-2502 "Disposition, Conformation, Versatility since 1973"
Fjords for sale
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Orville is making a quick trip to Nevada and California next week. If anyone is interested in some of our Fjords we have for sale and would like delivery soon let me know and I can send more information. For Sale: 1996 gelding 14.3hh brown dun rides and drives single and pair. $6,500.00 1997 gelding 14.1hh brown dun rides and drives single and pair. $6,500.00 1997 gelding l4.1hh white dun rides and drives single and pair. $7,000.00 2000 gelding $3,000.00 1998 filly brown dun just started riding training $6,000.00 1999 filly brown dun 14.2 $8,000.00 2000 filly dark brown dun $3,000.00 Also have bred mares for sale to foal 2002 Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses Rock Creek, B.C. "Disposition, Conformation, Versatility since 1973"
Carts for sale
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Orville is spending time between driving colts, making a number of two wheeled carts that will be ready to go in the next couple of weeks. The carts are the similar to the one we had at the International Fjord show in Libby for those of you that tried to buy that one. The cart is a two wheel, torsion suspension, all steel, easy entry type, training or cross country vehicle. The wheels are 1 1/2" by 32". Price is $1200.00 US. Orville will be leaving at the end of January for Santa Maria, California and will be taking some carts with him to sell while there. He will also have the following Norwegian Fjords for sale while in Santa Maria: Anvil's Regjer Sire: Anvil's Regin-Dam: Mari. Coming five year old, l4.3h brown dun gelding that has been used for trail riding in the mountains as well as driving single and pair. Reg is a forward moving, uphill built horse with lots of potential for Dressage and CDE's. Reg is quiet and gentle to handle with excellent ground manners. Stands quietly to mount or hook and unhook. Price is $6500.00US KeJaCo's Olga Sire:Liedjo-Dam: Anvil's Levende. Coming four year old, 13.3h brown dun filly. Bred to Anvil's Morgen and will foal spring 2001. Olga has been trained to ride as well as drive single and pair. Olga does excellent walk, trot and canter transitions, up and down, canter departs on the correct lead, counter canter, turn on the haunches, turn on the forhand and leg yield. Driven in the pair she walks 1 Km consistently in 9 min 45 sec. Olga has been shown by our daughter in English Pleasure classes as well as Western classes at the International Fjord show in Libby, MT where she won numerous ribbons. Orville drove her in three pair classes and they won the Obstacle Driving , second place in the Log Skid and a third in the Pleasure Driving. You can tell where Orville's priorities lie. Price: $8,000 US Email privately for pictures and information about the carts or the Fjords. Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses Anita and Orville Unrau "Disposition, Conformation, Versatility" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 250-446-2502
Travel info
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Help We need advice about traveling from Salt Lake City to Kansas City between Sunday and Tuesday. Looked at the weather forecast and wondering if we should take I 80 across to I 29 and south. Or I 80 to I 25 and down to I 70 or stay on I 15 to Provo and take the short cut Hwy. 6 and just stay on I 70 all the way across. What is the biggest difference between I 80 and I 70 as far as hauling a trailer. We have traveled across on I 80 in the winter, with blowing snow in Wyoming before and only been as far as Grand Junction on I 70 further south. We are unfamiliar with the mountain passes, road conditions, etc on I 70 Would appreciate any advice and help from the locals or those who have traveled these two interstates and know the passes, etc. You can email us privately at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Anita Unrau
For Sale: Fillies, geldings
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Just wanted to let everyone know we are leaving to deliver horses to North Carolina and Florida this month. If you are a discriminating buyer looking to purchase a top quality Fjord for riding, driving, breeding or that special companion email us for pictures, pedigrees and more information. We will be taking some of the following along with us for training and sale while in Florida. If any of these are of interest to you we can stop in if you are near our route from British Columbia to Florida. (covers most of the US doesn't it) Anvil's Viktoria-sire:Anvil's Morgen - dam:Queen 1998 brown dun filly. Beautiful filly with black legs, excellent disposition and half sister to Anvil's Regin. Top quality broodmare prospect and bred for performance. Price $6,000.00US Anvil's Rebe-sire:Anvil's Regin - dam:Anvil's Rebekka 2000 brown dun filly with lots of black markings. Personality plus with that special pizzazz like her sire. Price $4,000.00US Anvil's Lede-sire:Leidjo - dam:Anvil's Stina 2000 brown dun colt. This colt and his three quarter brother are the last Leidjo/Rudaren stallion prospects Anvil's Acres will have for sale. This colt has shown outstanding qualities since the moment he was born. Size, personality plus, conformation all in one makes Lede of the best of the best that Anvil's Acres has produced in the last 27 years. Price $8,000.00US Anvil's Regjer-sire:Anvil's Regin - dam:Mari 1996 14.3h brown dun gelding. Drives single or pair. Under saddle does walk, trot, canter transitions, leg yields, canter departs on correct lead. Excellent Pony Club prospect. Price $6500.00US Anvil's Herger-sire:Anvil's Morgen - dam:Anvil's Juli 1997 l4.1h brown dun gelding. Started riding and currently doing ground work for driving. Price $5500.00US Anvil's Rethel-sire:Leidjo - dam:Anvil's Stina 1997 14.1h white dun gelding. Last white dun we have and full brother to Anvil's Eddekoppe that successfully competed Intermediate level CDE. World Championship Pony prospect. Drives single and started riding. Price $6,000.00US Anvil's Magi Fjell-sire:Anvil's Morgen - dam:Anvil's Foehn 1996 15h brown dun mare bred to Anvil's Regin. This special mare is one of two mares we have left for sale. Price $15,000.00 Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses "Disposition, Conformation, Versatility"
Libby
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi everyone, As usual trying to get caught up with all the reading on the digest. I would like to thank all the committee members and volunteers who made Libby what it is today. We had not been there since 1992 when Steven Spengler brought his Mexican trainer with him to Libby and he did some tricks between classes with Steven's Stallion. Was wonderful to see so many people and their horses all turned out nicely and the big classes made competing much more fun. Want to thank Cynthia for her kind words on our fillies at Libby. " and I fell in love with Anita and Orville Unrau's fillies.(I am buying lottery tickets!!) . Lisa and I will have duke it out for them if their aren't sold to someone else before either of us finds some cash! " The two fillies did a wonderful job. Sam entered most of the western and English riding classes as well as some of the single driving classes and log skid. Orville did three classes with the pair. He won the obstacles and second in the log skid and I think a second in pair pleasure driving. Things got very hectic with so many changes from harness to english, etc. that I lost track of what most of the ribbons were for. Will have to wait for results to fill them in. Carol Rivoire made some comments from the Fjord digest #243 that I wanted to comment on. I just got a new Imac computer and being computer illiterate I am finding it hard to figure out how to do everything. So please bear with me as I struggle through pasting her comments on "Thanks Ursula for the interesting posting on Libby. Congratulations to you and Brian for some great driving. Wish I'd been there this year. You mentioned the driving competition getting fierce at Libby. Well I guess. . . with an FEI driver like Orville Unrau. Were there any levels other than Novice and Open at Libby? Somehow it doesn't seem fair for Training or Preliminary Level drivers competing against World-Class drivers. Orville Unrau has competed in a World Championship, hasn't he? What do you think? On the other hand, it must have been fun to have him back at Libby, and to have the opportunity to compete against him. " Carol, I really wonder how you can make comments about the horse coming first in all considerations of training and husbandry then imply by your above comments that because Orville drove our Hannoverian gelding in a World Championship that every horse born on our property is now born at an advanced level. This would be wonderful indeed as life would be much easier not having to train to get to that level. This was the first time in 8 years that we had been to a Fjord show because we enjoy the thrill of Combined driving to Pleasure driving. We got home from delivering horses to Minn. and Wisc. and being spectators at the Blue Earth show late Friday night July 28th. Unpacked and cleaned the trailer up Saturday and on Sunday after vistors left Sam saddled up her TB gelding and chased horses down the mountain to home. We went through all the Fjords we own and decided that two three year old fillies that Sam (Kerry) had put 30 days on one and 60 days riding on another would make a matched pair and with a mouth already on them would maybe be ready for Libby. On Monday, July 31 Orville started ground driving them single, Tuesday, Aug 1, hooked them each to a tire and had them drag it, and so on until ready to hook up as a pair later in the week. It was after Sept. first when he drove them single for the first time as all their driving had been as a pair until this time. Sam kept riding Olga and got her ready for the Western and English riding classes she decided to enter. This pair of fillies after getting preg tested in May and turned out on the mountain all summer were very fit. They had barely a month of driving training and had never left home before. Orville did do well in the three classes he entered and Orville's driving ability certainly helped but to say he should only drive Advanced level with such green horses??? Carol, I was very surprised by your comments. Some people have been competing the same horses in the same classes at Libby for years, is this any different? If anyone is interested in buying either of these beautiful fillies email me privately for pictures and pedigrees. I contacted Fred Pack to let him know which pictures he posted were the filles and Sam. Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses "Diposition, Conformation, Versatility" ~
Thank You missed
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In my earlier posting I forgot to thank Beth Beymer for her kind words about our fillies as well. She did a excellent job and definitely deserved the Versatility award. Well done. Sandy did all the videoing for the show. That was another awesome job as you don't see anything of the show when concentrating on doing a good job. Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses
Anvil's Acres Fjords
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We would like to Congratulate the following people on their purchases from Anvil's Acres. KeJaCo's Lag to Rock'n W Ranch, Patty and David Wouters, De pere, Wi. This four year old gelding will help Dave fulfill a dream to take up the wonderful sport of driving. Brian Thompson, Williamsburg, IA on the purchase of our four in hand Norwegian Harness. Helping to fulfill our dream of continuing our oldest breeding program the Naniot Family, Green Acres Stable, Green Bay, WI on their purchase of our imported Stallion, Leidjo, and the three Rudaren daughters, Anvil's Stina, Anvil's Lyna and Triangle E's Elskling. The parting is eased when you know your hard work will continue on for many more years to come. Once we had all the horses delivered we were able to take in the two days at the Blue Earth show and renew old aquaintances as well as meet new people. Really enjoyed seeing so many Fjords and noticed that several greys were Leidjo grandsons and daughters. His grey genes keep on coming through. We are putting another trip together to deliver more horses to the midwest in about 7-8 weeks. Also got our Libby packet in the mail so now for the big decision on which ones we will be taking there. Sam is going to play "Man from Snowy River" and bring Fjords home this afternoon so will decide which geldings or mares we should work to get ready for the driving classes. Sam will enter some of the riding classes on their KeJaCo's Fjords. This time will be lots of work not like Blue Earth where we got to watch everyone else and help when needed. Look forward to seeing everyone at Libby. Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres
Blue Earth
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Orville and I would also like to add our Thank You's to the Volunteers that put on the Blue Earth Fjord Show. It has been quite a few years since we had attended the show and we were impressed with the growth in the number of Fjords there, as well as the quality of showmanship. >From harness, carriages, turnout, riding, driving, the barns, the Fjords were professionally exibited. Roger and Diane Whitney started many years ago with a small piece of the local fair to what Blue Earth Fjord Horse Show is today. Thank you to everyone for all the hours that go into making possible such a huge success. Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses
Blue Earth
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Just a quick note to thank everyone that wished us well on our course change. We will be leaving early Friday morning to deliver horses to the midwest and plan on spending time at the Fjord show in Blue Earth. We will be bringing our set of Norwegian Harness with us to Blue Earth to sell. Orville adapted the four single sets to fit the four in hand of Fjords that we competed in parades and pleasure shows. It has been kept in an airtight box in the house and is in excellent condition. We are asking $2500. If someone is interested contact us by email or at the show. I will also be bringing new, hot of the presses-printing as I type this- color sales list of the mares and fillies we still have for sale. We have had problems with the phone messages as well as my computer crashing so if you did call or email for sales list and didn't hear back from us please contact us again. For those who will be at Blue Earth and have any questions about some of our Fjords that we have for sale or want to see pictures please come talk to us. Look forward to seeing all our old friends and meeting new ones. Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Nowegian Fjord Horses "Disposition, Conformation, Versatility"
Anvil's Acres Farewell
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We have just finished another long drive home from the east coast. We were away from home competing at Combine Drives for four months this spring, three months last year and seven months in l998. During the 2700 mile trip home through ten states, we had quality time to talk about what direction we want to take with our life. After much debating, soul searching and sadness we have decided to end the 27 year breeding program that we have had at Anvil's Acres. As a result of this momentous decision we have for sale three mature breeding stallions and their carefully selected band of mares. These elite mares were selected for their genetic compatibility to each stalliion as well as the Disposition and Conformation necassary to qualify as a Anvil's Acres Broodmare. This breeding program over three decades, embodies our slogan of 'DISPOSITION, CONFORMATION, VERSATILITY' To complement our Canadian bloodlines, we imported Rudaren and 17 mares from Norway, in 1981 and spring of 82. These original Canadian and Norwegian mares are the nucleus of our breeding herd. Soon it was back to Norway in 1985 to find a stallion that we felt would enhance the excellent quality of the Rudy daughters. After two long cold weeks we finally found Leidjo in the northern part of Norway and he is now offered for sale with our last three remaining Rudaren dughters. This combination of Leidjo/Rudaren daughters, have produced some of our most outstanding Fjords for conformation and athletic ability. Leidjo is by the stallion Bjorkar 1871 and out of the grey mare Gramoy 14176 who is a daughter of the well known 1st pr. and 1 avk pr. broodmare Runa 12516. We were fortunate to have seen her in person. Over the years we selected a number of Leidjo daughters to bred to Anvil's Morgen and these have been producing tall, long legged offspring like their sire. Morgen at l4.3hh has more leg and is the modern type of Fjord. His sire is the imported stallion Modellan 1919, who is the son of the reknown Rei Halsnaes from Denmark that was imported into Norway for a few years for breeding, and out of one of our imported mares Lena 13961, whose sire was the gray stallion, Fjord Viking 1732. Like his impeccable bloodlines Morgen is well mannered in hand, riding or driving. We have used him for pasture breeding as well as hand breeding. The hardest decision of all was in deciding to sell Anvil's Regin. This son of Rudaren as a two year old won the stallion class at Libby and then hauled all the way across the country to the Woodstock, VT Fjord show the next weekend where he again won his stallion class. We competed him succesfully at Combined Driving at the Prelim level, pair and single, from Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. At 15hh, Regin stood out where ever he went for his presence, athletic ability but most of all for his gentlemanly demeanor. Most of our mares were the Rudaren daughters/granddaughters so we where limited to the number of mares on hand to bred to Regin. The Morgen daughters are just now getting to be old enough to bred to Regin. Each one of the above stallions, have from five to ten females that could be sold with them for a complete breeding package. We have mares and fillies from draft, general purpose, to the modern type for sale as well as three 2000 colts that are stallion quality. Two are Leidjo son's and the third is a Regin son. We have five three and four year old geldings in various stages of riding and driving training left to sell and one weanling that will make an excellent gelding. If you have always wanted an Anvil Acres Fjord and put off getting one, this is your last chance to do so from the original source. Or if you have contemplated trying out for the 2003 World Pony Championships now is an excellent chance to put together that single, pair or four in hand from genetics bred for athletic ability. Our Fjords are all superior breeding quality and have lived up to our breeding goals of raising quality Fjords that have good work ethics, enjoy doing whatever task you ask of them, have a conformation that will keep them sound well into old age and be athletic enough to go into any equine discipline. If you would like a copy of our sales list, pedigrees, pictures or more information on individual personalities please phone us at 250-446-2502 or email us [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anita and Orville Unrau Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses Box 39 Rock Creek, B.C. VOH 1Y0 "DISPOSITION, CONFORMATION, VERSATILTY'
Re Anvil's Unior, Line and telepathy
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Susan, Yes, Anvil's Unior is N. American bred but both parents were from Norway. His sire is Rudaren that we imported in 1981 and his dam Ruby, was one of the mares that Jon Hegdal picked to fill the last load of mares we importred. We did not see her until she arrived in Canada. She is a big body older type mare. I believe she is still in Ontario breeding but not sure. Mary, I have to agree with you that I have never seen another head as elegant as Line's. All three Ola Gik daughters we imported had nice heads but Line's is still tops. We have two granddaughters of Line's that have her more refined face but not quite the same. Really enjoying all the comments about what people do with their Fjords and especially the telepathy. I have used it for years to sort horses and get them where I want them to be. The year we competed Anvil's Eddekoppe (Eddy) at the Calgary CDE during a particulary hard hazard Eddy ducked into the wrong gate and we had to back up and do the right one that was next to it. After the marathon was all done and Orville had time to think about what Eddie had done he realized that he thought about turning in that gate as soon as we finished the one we were headed for. Eddie picked up that thought so turned as Orville had pictured. Telepathy is powerful. Just got a phone call and our old gelding Harvey just had to be put down. He would have been 31 years old this year. He got cast in his stall last night and they found him this morning and got him up and walking around but was too late and had to put him down. George is calling for him. They have been together for about 25 years. Sam was doing a dressage show at the coast a couple of weeks ago and stopped in at the Pacific Riding for the Disabled stable to see how they were doing and said that Harvey looked different. George looked well and just the same. Always hard too hear the end has come. Anita Unrau Anvil's 'Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses
Price of Fjords
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brian, I agree with your comments about producing good quality, well-trained, versatile horses and we will never lack for buyers. However what you did not say is that the said buyers are usually not willing to pay the price of the well-trained horse. Our daughter spent four years training a Fjord gelding she owned. She did three years in 4-H with him with the first year as a green western, second year English and third year driving. She spent a lot of money going to clinics and almost every day winter and summer working and training her Fjord. She always says Lukas taught her more than any other horse. He was not an easy horse to work with at first as he was an untrained five year old and opinionated and she was a 15 yrear old starting her first horse by herself. We finally sold him this past June after trying to sell him for three years as a well trained gelding. We sold many others what we call well started for half to two thirds his price but no one wanted to pay the higher price for the well trained horse. Sam had won numerous awards with Showmanship, Western pleasure, English Pleasure but due to our other commitments did not get to any three day events, dressage or driving shows with Lukas. Sometimes after Sam had finished putting out the hay piles for all the horses in Lukas's paddock she would hop on him and ask for a canter depart on the correct lead away from his hay pile then do a quick reining pattern or a lower level dressage test then ride him back to the other horses jump off and let him go back to eating. She also was able to do this with her Arab that she trained. This would be done with no halter, bridle or saddle and the horse may not have been worked for some time as she was working on other horses the last few years. This is what a well schooled horse is about. (young girls having a safe and fun spur of the moment time) Sam's 4-H instructor also taught her to show at halter and set her horse up with no lead shank and only using body language. She never did it at a show but used this as an exercise she had to do before the show to make sure the horses were ready. That is how Sam won her Grandchampion Showmanship. Takes a lot of hard work and time that is worth something. Sam is now in the process of selling one of her TB geldings for three times the price she asked for KeJaCo's Lukas and Murphy does not have as much training as Lukas but he can jump higher and easier since he is 16.2hh and Lukas is 14.1hh. Most of Sam's training is based on what she learnt from using the method taught by Roy Yates who she was able to do a semester with in Colorado last year and has done numerous clinics with over the years. I for one do not think the Fjord prices are expensive. When we first started out we made many sacrifices to get to where we are today and prices have not changed much in 20 years. We are also one of the few breeding farms that make their living totally from the Fjords In 1981 when we decided to go to Norway and import we morgaged our farm when interest rates where at an all time high and in three years paid in interest what our farm had originally cost us. We knew many other people that also made changes in their lives so they could fulfil that dream of owing a Fjord. Sometimes it was the wife who went and got a job or someone got a second job or they had to sell something to pay for the Fjord they bought from us. The Fjord today is very affordable for the average person and for the below average income there is always someone willing to help out the serious buyer. I fimly believe in the old saying "where there is a will there is a way". Since writing the above comments I got a phone call from an old customer who wants to get another Fjord and was looking around. He said that friends had bought a gelding for their handicapp daughter for $1800 and he turned out perfect for their daughter. He also made an offer on a couple of mares that were for sale for $2500 and knew of another mare that he had not seen yet that was not registered for $2000. He did not plan on buying from us but wanted to compare prices. The Fjord is affordable to everyone and the right Fjord will find you. Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjords Box 39 Rock Creek, B.C. VOH 1Y0 "Disposition, Conformation, Versatility" PS Thanks Meredith for the etiquette reminder.
Re: misc and trip east
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Greetings to all the new people enjoying the list and all the others as well. Like everyone else we are busy trimming manes, getting rid of ticks, etc. When inside I am trying to get caught up on the Fjord list and answer some of the questions. Mary's vet suggestion of a necklace and earrings made of horse teeth didn't appeal to me but when Orville got home from Calgary and I told him he thought it would be neat. I found a couple more teeth in the feed bunks. Enjoyed reading about the mane trimming. A few years ago we were going through Wisc. and one of our must stop places is the Fleet Farm store in Menomonie. Lots of room to park the truck and trailer and easy access off and on from the interstate. While Orville was wandering through the hardware and getting all his nuts, bolts, screws etc for the next while he came across some funny looking scissors with grey handles and a orange clip. He thought they might work okay for trimming manes. The shape lent themselves to easier handling and he found they worked wonderfull for all kinds of manes. Until I starting reading all the different emails about the Fiskars I didn't know what they were called. Sure enough when I went out to the barn to check we do own a pair a Fiskars and they are the best thing we have found for trimming Fjord manes. Brian asked about how we would introduce two mature stallions that have never been together. We we bought Orrjo and Leidjo in Norway in 1985 one of the considering factors after disposition and conformation was the fact that they had spent their yearling and two year old summers running up the mountain with the other Fjord Stallions and the Dolehest stallions. Out of 20 odd stallions of various ages we were told that Orrjo was the boss. They were turned out everyday together during the winter and we seen how they interacted with each other. After we imported them and got them home we turned them back out together with our other stallions and they thought it was normal. In our breeding program if a stallion will not get along with the other stallions in the off season we would not keep them as a stallion. Disposition is the top priority and that can not be sacrificed for other things. Because we are sorting horses around and going to be bringing the mares home to get ready for foaling we separated the stallions yesterday. They are just starting to get their hormones going and the fillies are starting to come into heat. Usually we wait a little later to separate but with Orville leaving on Thursday to go to Wisconsin I wanted everything done before he left to make chores easier for me. Our daughter is going on this trip as one of her geldings was sold and she will be doing the riding on the two that are going for sale. She also wants to see the Akal-Teke stallions in Green Bay that Nyla Naniot owns. A white dun filly is going to Nyla's as well if anyone would like to come and see her sometime. Not many white duns around. In Oct. 1981 we stopped off in England for a few days on our way to Norway to buy mares. Prior to leaving I had contacted Lady Kidd at her Maple Stud I believe it was called and arranged for us to go and see her Fjords. At that time she was the only Fjord contact we could find in England. We got a tour around her farm and had a nice lunch while there. Is her place still going? After we returned from Norway we rented a car and went south to Brighton and back. Where do you live from there Susan? A lot of talk about ticks now. The ticks around here usually start coming in January and don't quit until June. I am hand picking some off the mares when I feed and check them over. The horses at home that we are using every day get checked and picked daily. We worm with Ivermectin and that will kill any ticks that are sucking blood but not the young ticks looking for a host. Vigilance and hand picking is what we have found works the best. We used to put vaseline on the ticks and they couldn't breath so would die and dry up and fall off. That took too long so back to the hand picking. One of the good things about our living in Alberta was the tick free area but our weather here makes up for the negative. Keeping the horses out of the bush and grass does not help keep the ticks off as most of our horses are in paddocks with no grass and at least a foot of snow and they are still covered in ticks. I believe that the ticks stay on the horse year round and hatch young ones and that is what we are finding now. I don't believe that cougars are endangered around here. They are common enough and have so little fear of man that several people have seen cougars bring down deer along side the highway in broad daylight. The cougar that we trapped with the carcass of the second foal was feeding on the first foal in daylight and my son chased it off
Re: Teeth
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jean, Funny you mentioned teeth. I found a baby tooth in the feeder when I was doing chores the other morning and I was trying to remember about the teeth. Age must be showing as it has completely left my mind. We feed with big feed bunks up in the one pasture where the hay shed is and that is usually where the 3, 4 yr. olds as well as the bred mares are feed each winter. This time of the year we start finding teeth on a regular basis. I have collected a jar full of them over the years and always wondered what I could do with them. Any ideas from anyone out there? We still have lots of snow here but didn't freeze for three nights in a row then cleared off early this morning and got a little frost. Beautiful sunny day today. Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses
Re: Digital Camera
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I too have a Sony Ditital Camera. Mine is the MVC-FD71 mode. I really enjoy > using it. I had a disc I took a couple of weeks ago with Orville driving Sol > and Garry on the sleigh on a beautiful sunny day. I was putting some > advertising stuff together using the pictures off the disc when my computer > had some kind of a glitch. It screwed up my disc. Some people > emailed about the trained geldings for sale I mentioned on the list and > wanted pics of Garry. Sam and I went out this morning after chores and got > some good pictures of Garry in bridle for conformation and then riding with > the English saddle. I was back in the house and had them sent out a short > time later. Sure beats taking pictures, going to town to get > developed and then mailing them out. Now I just have to learn how to run > the computer better so I don't screw up more discs. It's interesting reading about who is the boss in the herd. Our experience is that the top horse of the pecking order does not fight. The only fighting going on is the ones who are not sure where they stand or are trying to move up. Top dog out of all the horses that run out most of the year is our 18hh Percheron mare. The only one that was ever boss over her was the white gelding Anvil's Eddekoppe that Denise Galbraith now owns. It took them two years before Easter finally admitted that Eddy was the boss. That has been the only time Easter has kicked or showed any signs of fighting.and they were legendary. 18hh vs 14.1hh. Easter eats first and she lets the ones who are at the bottom of the ladder eat with her. Orrjo was the boss of the stallions and we never did see him fight even though the other stallions would scrape trying to decide who was second in command. When we moved to Armstrong we had 11 stallions of various ages in one pasture together. During the spring and summer when Orrjo was turned out with the mares and babies he had so much self esteem that we would find him laying down with the babies baby sitting and the mares would be out of sight. Leidjo on the other hand never likes his mares to get out of sight. Leidjo and Regin are together this winter again and they like to make lots of noise. We will be moving the mares below the house where they foal out in a couple of weeks so will be separating the stallions again. When we lived in Alberta we had several experiences with twins. Twins not only screw up that breeding year but usually the following one as well. The first time we had twins was when we imported the first mares from Norway and Line that Mary Thurman now owns, foaled out a colt and a still born filly. I had seen both sides of her belly get kicked at the same time and suspected that she was having twins and got all execited and Orville said it was bad news not good. I kept the colt alive for three months before making the painful decision to listen to our vet and put him down. Later we had a mare bag up about two months early and our vet told me over the phone when I called him that she was probably having twins. Sure enough there was a petrified fetus next to the filly and the filly ended up living for some months before being put down. She would shed a hoove every few weeks and we would get some resin and build a new one for her and about the time the hoof started to grow out she would shed another. The infection finally got to much and we ended it. We found evidence several more times about twins and our vet told us that twins are more common than people think but owners aren't usually observant enough to see the signs. Our mare Tillie did have twins when we lived in Armstong. Because the mare foaled when the filly was full term both lived without medical problems. With Line's twins they foaled when the colt was full term and the filly had died inside. This is what set up the septic reaction in him. Tillie's colt stayed about two weeks behindthe filly getting teeth, etc and did grow up smaller. He did learn to eat grain, etc. faster as big sister always got what teat she wanted to have. The filly belongs to Diane Uleau in Pennsylvania and the colt went to a older lady in Northern Alberta. Tillie like Line did not get pregnant again the next year. Having twins takes a lot out of the mare and they have to get their health caught back up. The sun is shining so will go out and get some of that loose hair off the stallions. Stallions always start shedding first with the mares next then the geldings. We can usually tell who is foaling first by the shedding pattern of the mares. Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses "Disposition, Conformation, Versatility" >
Trained geldings for sale
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Just wanted to let everyone know that we are planning a trip to the midwest and then onto Dallas, TX to deliver horses and carriages we have sold. We will be taking with us a couple of geldings that are not as yet sold. We hope to be in the Green Bay, Wisc. area in about two weeks and will have these geldings available for people to look at and try out at an arena there or elsewhere along the way if that works out better for you. These four year old geldings are trained to ride and drive, single as well as pair.If someone is interested email me and I can send pictures and more info on them and set up dates for viewing. We will be making various stops along the way so if it works out and you are looking for a trained gelding let us know. We have not had any geldings since the 97 foal crop so once these three and four years are sold it will be quite awhile before we have any more trained geldings for sale. Do have a number of fillies to sell however and once the geldings are all sold will work on the mares that have been raising babies and the young fillies. It has been interesting reading about the opinions and comments of Mules and Fjords. We had a pair of mules (actually a mule and a hinny) we traded Joe and Meg Hempel out of a few years back. Our summers here can be very hot and dry. Orville was mowing oat hay and using the Fjords, switching teams every two hours. The kids and I would have the next pair ready to go and give showers and clean up the ones coming back in before they got their water, feed and rest until it was their turn again. This worked real well until it got really hot. The mules came home for water in the early afternoon on one of these hot buggy days and Orville was bringing another team in to switch. He grabbed a couple of halters from the barn and caught Polly and Belle, had them harnessed and out in the field mowing again. The Fjords were having a hard time with the deer flies biting them and Orville had been going to call it a day when the mules made the mistake of coming home. He worked the next couple of hours with the big flies chewing on the mules and they didn't even let on they knew the flies were hungary. That was when Orville realized why Mules are so prized for field work in the south with the hot, muggy, buggy days they have down there . As good as Fjords are there are occasions when a mule is better. Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses
Re: 13th Warrior
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jean, it has actually been three movies our horses were involved with. The first one was in the 70's with our original gelding George. Dan Haggerty of Grizzley Adams fame got his start in this movie. The riders couldn't handle the tigers and the tiger handlers couldn't ride very well. Dan Hagerty was one of the tiger handlers. The movie was called "When the North Winds Blow" and you occasionally see it on the late night movies. It was about some guys in Siberia trying to catch Siberian Tigers. Near the end George has a tiger on a travois and the two guys are talking and one has a bunch of flowers in his hand. They cut the scene just as George went to eat the flowers. If you know what to look for you can see the Fjord going for the food. George was the only horse there that would go up to the tigers when in the nets and let them load them up. It was the early eighties when we took Bjarne and some of the other Fjords up Cathederal Mountin for the Clan of the Cave Bear. Permission was not granted for the horses to go out on the fragile alpine so we had 10 days of relaxation with a bunch of Fjords that were in a corral with helicopters landing right next to them. People always told us that horses don't look up but I got some pics of them looking up to see what that horrible noise was. The last movie was the 13th Warrior that took two years to be released. There wereabout 60 Fjords of which we supplied 21. Ted Swendsen and Helena Klement supplied about another 20 head between them and some came from Sask. as well as several from individual people. Only during the big rides were all 125 head out at once. Usually we worked a total of 40-60 head of all horses every day. We worked for the first week in July until the middle of Sept. Orville was one of the Wendol's and many a day was 14-16 hour days starting with costume and makeup. The horses learnt to have patience and be ready to go but to relax and get some sleep in between takes. Sometimes it might be two hours between and the next time they would have to go right away. They all learnt to listen for "Rolling" "Action" and they were gone as most scenes were wide open. Then they would come back to the starting point and have to stand in line. It was a standing joke that the Wendols could not count. They would be told to line up in threes or fours and a lot of them never did get that figured out. One filly that we sold to New York would lay down between takes and her 14 yr old rider would snooze on top of her. I wish I could have got some of the waiting pics. 7 or 8 Wendols sitting around a stump with everyone on the next person's shoulder sound asleep and their reins in their hands with the horse standing with hind leg cocked also asleep. With the long hours sleep was a real rare commodiy. We also worked 6 day a week and would take the Sunday shift so we would have time to go over the horses and make sure everyone was okay. My job was staying at the tent and cleaning barn, feeding, doctoring etc. I did get to go up top a couple of nights and watch. I too wish we could take the cuttings and make another film. Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses.
Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #24
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Got a chuckle out of Misha's description of the 13th Warrior. Wouldn't say it was the worst movie I had seen but it sure could have used a story line. After two and a half months of filming some spectacular shots of the horses the six or so min. on the screen were a disappointment. We heard the Director John Tiernman and Michael Crichton had a big fight over the movie and the Director lost. He was the man with the vision of how it should be and controlled all the shooting and it was different from Mr. Crichton's. We plan on getting the video and going over the horse scenes frame by frame and see who we can identify. None of the spectacular shots were used that we could see. During filming they said they were happy if they got 4 or 5 seconds of good footage. I finally seen why. Everything was so fast my eyes had trouble adjusting to the fast pace and we were sitting near the front which was a mistake. The white Arab that Antonio rode had 16 or 17 different horses from start to finish if I remember right. The whole movie thing certainly was a eye opener but would do it again with a few changes. Out of the 22 head we took to Campbell River in 97 all are sold except for one gelding, the three broodmares that are not for sale and the only non Fjord that went. That was Strausser, our red dun Hanoverian gelding that we took to Ebbs, Austria in 98 for the World Singles Championship. His moment of movie fame was somersaulting in the moat with Mel Hyland, former World Champion Saddle Bronc rider. Mel got too close to the edge and a front foot sunk and over they went. Going exactly where you put Strausser, at whatever speed is what made Strausser so quick in the hazards. You have to respect that trust and not diminish it in any way. Mel didn't ride him again after that. The last few years have certainly been entertaining even if we haven't been home for most of it. Makes one wonder what the new millennium will bring. Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses "Disposition, Conformation, Versatility"
Re: Our Experiences
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Upon reading yesterdays list, I thought I would comment on what we > have learned over the years. We are feeding irrigated Alfalfa again this year. We get a couple of B trains from Alberta and our Fjords as well as all the other various horses do very well on it. We have found that we can feed about 9 lbs. per horse per feeding with good quality hay compared to last year using local hay and having to fed twice as much hay per feeding for maintaince. The horses that are being worked get fed more when the are in the barn during the day and everyone gets turned out at night. All the TB's and TB X's are in Paddocks and the Fjords other then the stallions are all in big pastures. The weanlings and yearling are the only one with a run in shed. All the other outside horses have trees for protection. We are very fortunate in having dry snow and very little wind. My daughter has to keep a blanket on her TB eventing horse as he uses up to much energy staying warm. We have fed Alfalfa every winter for about 20 years. Do like an orchard grass mix with it if available. This year have about 10% orchard grass in the 100# bales. Orville does not like to drive any horse unless they have shoes on. His opinion is that the horse must be paying attention to what is asked of him and not worrying about slipping, rocks, sore feet, etc. During the winter of 85-86 a man by the name of Buck Jenkins came out to do an article for the Sons of Norway magazine "Viking". He had been to several places in the east and was doing some stories on the Fjord. He wanted a bunch of pictures of Orville using the horses around the farm. Orville hooked up George and Harvey and went to go out with the sleigh and when he got to the gate that was real icy George and Harvey refused to go through. This had never happened before so Orville thought about it for a minute and turned around and went back to the barn. Unhooked and put shoes on George and Harvey. Because he was driving colts that winter he had taken off their pulling shoes with big corks and left them barefoot. They had always had shoes with borium for all the work they had done and were not about to change things now. After putting their winter shoes on, we hooked back up and they drove through the gate as though there was no ice. They taught us that it was important for them to work with secure footing. George and the three kids unloading bedding from the barn made the front cover. I checked out the webb page for the US Marine art. Again back in the early 80's we were told there are pictures at the army base in Calgary of the Canadian Army on winter manoeuvres in Norway. They would race each other to a mountain top and the first one with camp set up won. The Norwegians consistenly would win with their Fjord horses on snowshoes packing everything up the mountain. The Canadians would use Bombadiers or early snowmobiles. We were sorry to hear when the Norwegian Army quite using horses. Top Canadian CDE competitiors, David and Christi Wharton have a beautiful barn set up in Kendal, Ont. Each box stall has a trap door that opens up to the underbarn conveyor belt that dumped all the bedding and manure behind the barn into the manure spreader. It takes just a few minutes to pick each stall and dump into the trapdoor. Christi had a choice between a new kitchen or the easier barn chores. Horses do tend to come first don't they. Our experiences with meadowbrooks has not been good. Sam was about 15 when we were at a Bill Long clinic in Washington state. She used her gelding Anvil's Klipper and the two wheeled cart for her lesson and after it was done her Dad took Klipper out practising hazards. On the flat at a good trot in a hard turn the cart flipped over. The next day Cathy Shives with their gelding Anvil's Ryder did the same thing in a flat hazard on a hard turn. That is when Orville started designing four wheel carriages. He said our daughter is not going to be competing in a two wheeled vehicle. Funny how small things can make big changes. Rattled on enough. Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjords "Disposition, Conformation, Versatility"
Trying to get caught up
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Happy New Year to everyone on the Fjord List, I am trying to get caught up on four months of the Fjord Digest and enjoying all the different topics. Our nice quiet stay at home this fall disappeared as I spent 4 days a week in Vernon , which is about 2 1/2 hrs north of here and close to Brian and Ursula, helping my sisters to look after Mom. Now that she is gone and Orville has learnt to cook and do a small amount of house cleaning I can get back to our Fjord stuff. While reading the different messages and clicking on websites I came across Bud and Tillies "Dun Lookin" page and seen some of the old pictures. The picture of Harold Jacobsen with the mare Lise brought back memories. This was the same picture that Harold sent us and as a result we bought two mares and foals. Lise is one of two mares and we later sold her to Chip Lamb. Lise's daughter Else, sired by Dragtind was sold to a couple in Hawaii and was our first big export. With Lise open we trained her to drive when she was 12 or 14 years of age and used her in our six horse hitch. The picture's from Germany probably came from Rhinehold Eitenmuller. He went to school in Texas for awhile and while in N. America came and seen us. Must have been about 79 or 80. Eitenmuller's where/are Fjord breeders in then West Germany. Their stallion was Heino and they did alot of demos at Equitana, etc then. I think the sidesaddle picture must be from them as well. In March of 1981 Helena Kelement and Orville and I flew to Germany and met Rhinehold at Equitana and watched them do their demo for the event. Met a bunch of German breeders at that time but don't remember the names now. Helena bought her six fillies from Germany and we went on to Norway where Helena bought her stallion Halstien and we bought Rudaren. During that trip looking at stallions for sale we seen and took pictures of Gjest, Myrstein (who was our third choice), Norulv, (our second choice), and many others mentioned recently on the Fjord List. The Dutch Stallion Nordal is a full brother to Norulv. We seen him on the next trip to Europe to buy mares. We have never wavered on our first choice of Rudaren. He has done everything in our breeding program that we expected from him and his grand/great/ great-great grandchildern. Next spring will see the next generation being born.. The picture of Orville holding Rudaren was taken by me when we lived in Bergen, Alberta. The next picture Orville took while I held onto Rusten and was in front of our house, built by a Norwegian, in Bergen. Rusty, as we all affectionally call him, brings back lots of memories. He taught me the proper way to handle stallions when breeding and always forgave me my ignorance and mistakes. He would work for me on voice commands alone and always a perfect gentleman. Orville was working as a Mud Engineer in the Oil Patch and was gone most of the time. Still miss Rusty even though our breeding program is based on Rudaren bred to Rusty's sisters. A full brother George, who was our very first Fjord in 1973, is going to be 30 years young this year. I am going to try and get our web page done now that I am home and hope to be putting lots of our old pictures on it. Enjoyed seeing the pictures and reliving old memories of friends and Fjords. Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjords "Disposition, Conformation, Versatility" PS I to have a pet peeve about Confirmation being used for Conformation. See it all the time.
Re: White Dun Fjords
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I found the comments about white Duns made by Sarah very interesting. Not sure if anyone else other than ourselves are raising the white ones but they sure have not been hard to sell. Over the years and the two hundred plus foals we have raised since 1973 the only color we have had a hard time selling is the red duns. Have always had to drop their price down to sell them where as the white ones are always our higher priced Fjords. Another interesting thing about the color is the different body types and personalities that seem to go with each color. When we were in Norway in October 1981 buying mares we had a hard time finding mares that were of equal or better quality then what we had at home. As we could not find enough brown duns Orville finally let me get the white dun mother and daughter mares that we had come across. They had the size, conformation and most important the disposition that we were looking for in breeding mares. Line, now owned by Mary Thurman, had a filly on her when we looked at her. It was a color we had never seen before. Gold body color and white mane and tail. Looked just like a palamino. All the foals we had seen up to then had been an off white with various shades of brown or grey. Never before or since have we seen the gold color. The Norwegians told us it was a rare yellow dun. Stella now owned by Jean Ernest, was the other white dun we brought over. Both mares had brown dun sires and been bred to brown stallions. Line had white dun twins in the spring of 1982 and the filly was born dead and the colt lived for three months. Stella was open but we had bought her anyway. Before selling Rusten to Chip Lamb in the early 80's we bred both Line and Stella to Rusty and they both had brown dun foals. Bred to Rudaren, who we imported from Norway in March of 1981, Line had brown duns as well as a red dun filly with a white strip. Her birth is another interesting story. We still have a daughter of Line and Rudy called Anvil's Lyna. Stella, bred to Rudaren, had brown duns as well as a white filly that we keep and named Anvil's Stina, the mother to Jean's Anvil's Adel. Stina has been bred to Leidjo all but one year when we bred her to Orrjo and the result was a brown dun filly that was sold to California. The Leidjo babies have been white's except for Anvil's Rebekka that is one of our darkest mares. Stina has produced two different types of whites. The ones with black in the mane and tail are smaller and squarer built and the ones without the black are taller and leggier. Cameron Pedri that owns Anvil's Salamon and had him showing at the Turlock show in Sept. was here yesterday to see Sal's sire and dam and siblings. She said that Sal was registered in the US as a yellow dun instead of white dun like we had him registered in Canada. Maybe Mike May can clarify the white body color being called yellow dun. I still am confused over the proper names for the white body colors. As far as I know Modellan is the only white stallion breeding in N. America. Eric and Judy Uthiem had also brought over one or two white mares. They must have had some white foals that are out there somewhere. Sorry to ramble on for so long but I really do like the White Duns. Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjord Horses.
New email address
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi to everyone, Just wanted to let you all know we have a new email address again. It is [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the fourth time our server has been bought out since we joined two years ago this coming December. We are just doing a new color flyer to mail out and the first half have the old email address but the later ones have the new email address. For the next six months the old email address will be forward mail to us. I have pictures of two mares, two fillies, two geldings and a mature stallion and a weanling stallion. We will be delivering horses to the midwest in October so started the mail outs there. If you don't receive a mailing and would like one please email me privately. We currently have a seven year old gelding for sale ( only one left from 22 head used in the 13th Warrior filming) Also have five three year old geldings for sale and like the other gelding most ride and drive. Other then these six geldings we only have three two year olds left. No yearlings or weanlings. Mares seem to be having fillies lately. If the weather continues to hold we will be doing some light fall work with the geldings in multiple hitches. With regard to Sarah's question about aluminum skinned trailers, we have a new one that was made locally ( 2 1/2 hrs from here) and we really like it. They were the only trailer manufacter that was able to do exactley what we wanted. We can double deck dressage and marathon carriage through double doors plus have five horses angled or we can put two or three across the back and fill the rest up with carriages, etc. As we never know what we will be leaving home with the trailer has to be adaptable. The aluminum skin cuts down the wieght of a steel trailer and the steel body gives you more strength than an aluminum frame. What Orville really likes is the ease of maintenance and the overall appearance. We preferred the white aluminum skin rather then the regular skin. We plan on being home now till Christmas, except for delivering horses, so will try and get caught up on emails etc. Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjords [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fjordhorse-digest V99 #113
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Brian, It is hard to find well trained geldings for sale. We just sold four mature geldings but do still have a seven year old gelding for sale as well as five three year old geldings in various stages of training. All have been started riding and two are now driving as well. I agree with you on the term "bombproof" I can guarantee my horses but I can not guarantee the new owner or the situations they put the horse in. Our horses run out on the mountain side and are use to deer, bear, coyote, elk, etc. coming out of the bush, but that does not guarantee something in the suburbs will not spook them when they have never been in that situation before. A well trained horse that has been taught how to handle all situations is hard to find and takes a lot of time to train to that point. Most people do not want to pay the extra for the "bombproofing". Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres "Disposition, Conformation, Versatility"
Re:World of Horses with John Scott
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Just thought I would let everyone know that Orville will be on TV Thursday night. It is a show called the World of Horses with John Scott and will be on the Discovery Channel at 7:30 Mountain time. This episode will be about Combined Driving and they filmed Orville at the High Country CDE in Calgary last Sept. with Bubba his new TB cross he got from Paul Milton. Paul makes informative comments on the list once in awhile. John Scott was the Head Wrangler on the Eaters of the Dead movie we were in and was the man responsible in finding all the horses for the movie. 150 more or less. 60+ were Fjords. John has his own series about horses and different aspects of the horse and their use. We don't have TV were we live as we are behind a rock bluff and TV is not important enough to get a dish. Hopefully we will get someone to tape ii and eventually see it. Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Fjords
Re: Gray Fjords
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Have been reading all the comments about gray Fjords. We have a pair of gray geldings for sale. They were both rode in the Movie "Eaters of the Dead" or "13th Warrior" as it will now be called. We are driving them now as a pair to haul hay and other chores around the ranch. They both drive single as well as pair,and go on the left or right sides. They are l4.1 HH and are both sired by our Norwgian Import stallion Leidjo. He is a brown dun as where both mares the geldings are out of. We have had a number of colts born gray over the years but never a gray filly. We never know for sure what color we will get from our offspring. The dam to one of the geldings has given us three gray colts and only one brown colt, her last that we own. She has had numerous brown fillies and never a gray filly. The two white mares we imported from Norway in '81 had given us white, red and browns. Anvil's Stina is the daughter/Granddaughter of the two mares and she also has been bred to Leidjo, a brown dun and only had two brown fillies and the rest of her foals have all been white. Her first foal Anvil's Eddekoppe, we competed Intermediate with hiim, and her foal from last year are the only ones with black in the mane and tail. All her others were all white. Stina is a daughter of Rudaren who also was brown. Yet her daughter Anvil's Rebekka is one of the darkest mares we own with lots of zebra markings. The Fjords come in different colors and breeding gray to gray does not mean you will get gray. Same as breeding brown to brown will not always get brown. Many years ago when we were first starting out in Fjords the colors were explained to us as being wild colors. The brown dun was the forerunner to modern day Bays. The red dun is the same for Sorrels/Chestnuts, etc. The white duns are todays grays. The gray duns are the blacks and grullas. The yellow dun is palamino. I can't even remember who gave us this information but I do belive it was on one of our first trips to Norway. We sold the single harness but still have for sale the Smuckers Super Deluxe pair harness as well as the four single Traditional Norwegian Harness. A number of people have asked about using it for farm work. Orville only used it for pleasure showing and parades and uses his draft harness for field work etc. Has anyone worked with this type of harness? Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Fjords
Re: Norwegian Harness for sale
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Just looked up the results of the Fairhill CDE and Vivian Creigh has done another excellent job representing the Fjord. She placed second in the Intermediate Single Horse/Pony class. Congratulations Vivian! Job well done in a large class. We had three couples here on the weekend driving who are all seriously thinking about trying out for the Canadiian team for the year 2000. We sold Orville's single Smucker Super Deluxe harness but still have the Pair Super Deluxe for sale. He has also decided to sell four Norwegian single harnesses that we used to show in. They have the collar/hame together in the Norwegian Tradition. While getting caught up on the Fjord List seen the comments about the" Eaters of the Dead" or "13th Warrior" movie. Disney paid all the bills and would be the people to contact. But Jean was correct on maybe look into it a little. The Fjords were rode by the Wendols who came out of the night to steal people to eat. They were portrayed as the "bad guys" My sister came out to the Island to see us one weekend. Her kids had a hard time seeing Orville as a bad guy. "But Uncle Orville's nice how can he be a bad guy". Makeup was not taken off until he hit the shower in the motel room. Any stop offs for Pizza, etc. were quite comical. One lady was a Viking extra and all dirty and bruised .She stopped off to buy milk before going home and the clerk patted her hand and asked if she needed her to call a women's support group for her. Incidently the horse we took to the World Championships was a dun and had worked on the movie last summer as well. We had 21 Fjords and Strausser. Orville rode a white Fjord the last month we worked and was the only white Fjord there. The last week he rode with stunts in the front lines so should be very visible. Better quit rambling. Look forward to seeing all the CDE competitors down east next spring again. Keep up the good work all of you. Anita
Harness for Sale
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Now that the CDE season is slowing down Orville has been taking inventory of his harness. He has decided to sell his Smuckers Super Deluxe pair harness with breast collars. . It will fit our l5 HH Stallion Anvil's Regin as well as our l4 HH Fjords. We used it for our presentation harness when we were driving our pair of Fjords at CDE's. Used very little and like new condition.. Maintained and cleaned on a regular basis and stored in air tight box in the house. Also has decided to sell the Single Super Deluxe Horse harness with breast collar. It will also fit our Fjords from 14 - 15 HH. This is the harness that Orville used for Dressage and Cones at the World Singles Championship in Ebbs, Austria in June. Both harness are in brass appointments. Orville is also selling his marathon carriage like the one he used in Ebbs. Two of his carriages were used at the World's. Tom Hilgenberg used one of Orville's carriages for the marathon. He also owns " pinkie" that Orville used to drive. That carriage was driven with Anvil's Regin at l5HH as well as our daughter competing with Anvil's Takla who is 13.2 HH. It is an ideal Fjord size competition vehicle. Any one interested can call 250-446-2502 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] or fax at 250-446-2525.
Re: fjordhorse-digest V98 #204
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Here is some suggestions for keeping your Fjord out of your space. When you said you would push with your elbow or arm and it didn't work well that is because a horse's natural inclination is to push back. Same as when you are trimming his feet. If you let him lean on you and try and hold him up he will push more. Take a whip/crop with you whenever you lead him and use the butt end of the whip to let him know he is in your space. He has to learn to respect your space all the time not just leading. Horses relate to each other with a pecking order. They do not invade the space of the boss horse or the horses above them unless invited to do so. You have to establish that you are higher then him in the pecking order and then he will keep out of your space until you invite him in. Once you establish this ground rule everything else in the training will come easier. You don't have to be cruel about it but forceful. Watch how they disciple each other and you will realize you can not hit as hard as a bite or kick from one of your geldings playmates. Don't tap and pick at him or he will tune you out. One good smack at the right time can work wonders. They do have thicker skin then other horses. With regard to taking a 10 year old and doing round pen work with him. It is never to late to continue the education of yourself and your horse. We go back to basics with our horses when ever they need a reminder or refresher course. Fjords do not do real well with lots of round pen or lunging work. They prefer a variety of things. If you do use the round pen/lunging training make sure you are using it to educate the horse and not do just let him run off steam. Anytime you put a halter or bridle on your Fjord he should be made to behave. If he doesn't know how then he will have to be taught what is acceptable behaviour for both of you. Now that the Combined driving season is over with out west we will be staying home and catching up on things. I finally had time to check out the NFHR home page and was surprised to see a picture of Orville discing with four of our Fjords. The middle two are George and Harvey, our first pair of Fjords. George we bought in March l973 for $57.50 at an auction sale off of a meat buyer. He had bought him for $52.50. Orville had to give $5.00 for his ticket. George is now 28 years young and him and Harvey are both at Langley, BC's Therapeutic riding centre. Harvey is 29 years young. One of the interesting things about George is he has a dew claw on the inside of his front leg. Has anyone else ever noticed this phenomenon on their Fjords? Found it interesting about the National Geographics and Fjords horses. We were thinking of getting the entire collection of CD Rom for Christmas. Is the Fjord included in it as well? Has anyone bought the CD Roms yet? Anita at Anvil's Acres
Re:Saddles and geldings for sale
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kerry, our daughter, is taking several semesters with Roy Yates, a trainer based in Grand Junction, Col. She called home last night to say she is buying a saddle Roy designed that is westernstyle but is similar to a dressage saddle in how you sit and can use your legs on the horse. This may be the ideal saddle for Meredith wanting a dressage saddle but the security of a western saddle. Kerry or Sam as we call her at home said it will fit her l6.3HH Thoroughbred or her l4.2 HH Fjord gelding that she does English, Western, Jumping and Driving with. We also have some geldings for sale. Five are trained for riding and driving single/pair and the other just riding at this time. All six were used in the movie last summer "Eaters of the Dead" that will be released hopefully this fall. The name has been changed to "The Thirteenth Warrior". Wonder what Michael Crichton thinks of his book title being changed. If anyone is interested in the geldings they can email us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres
Re: Finally Home
This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi everyone, we are finally home from our seven month odyssey. We left home Jan. 13 and finally got our horse out of quarantine in Ontario and headed home July l7. What an experience we had. We stayed in Georgia with our good friends Tom and Charlene Hilgenberg and I kept in touch with home via Tom's computer. We were able to continue selling our Fjords and Orville's carriages the same as though we were at home. What a marvelous tool the computer and internet are. We spent time with Sally Graburn in Florida and learnt alot. Sally is a marvelous teacher and has an incredible amount of knowledge. Larry Poulin is well known to Fjord owners in the east. He was kind enough to be our Canadian Coach. We spent three weeks with Larry in Maine as well as several clinics at the CDE's and in Ontarion. We also got his expertise for our 10 training days in Germany. Larry made life so much easier in Ebbs, Austria as he has been to 6 World Championships. He knew many of the drivers there as they had competed pair at other World Championships. I highly recommend Larry if he is doing a clinic in your area it is well worth taking. We are forever in his debt. The whole trip was made possible because everyone on the east coast helped all the way. David and Christie Wharton were a lot of fun and also opened up their home to us and helped make the quarantine time easier. So many people to thank. We would like to thank all our Fjord Friends who helped out and wished us well. Orville being top Canadian driver is only possible because of all the help along the way. Now it is time to get caught up on everything at home and back to driving colts, trimming manes etc. As well as driving his CDE horses Orville is driving a pair of grey geldings and two pairs of brown geldings that we plan on driving as a four once they are trained well enough. He started two singles as well, a white gelding and a brown filly. The next batch will be bred mares. We have six of them to train this fall. All the geldings and some of the mares were rode last summer for the movie "Eaters of the Dead" now changed to "The 13th Warrior" . Suppose to be coming out this fall. The last twelve months were sure excinting and different. Hope to see many of you at the different CDE's this fall. Thanks again for everyone's support. Anita and Orville Unrau Anvil's Acres Fjords.
