Re: Fjord heighth
This message is from: Lori Puster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jean, A THIRD!!???. Good lord, Freyja's only 5 weeks old (4 weeks in the picture) and she's probably over half her mother's height already. That can't be right. Maybe you were thinking--weight? http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~lpuster/5-21_fre_mo_graze.jpg At 09:11 AM 5/30/00 -0700, you wrote: >This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >There is a formula somewhere, can not find it this morning as I am on my way >to pick up Gunnar "the friendly one" from Anne's. At a certain month the >foal is one third their expected height. Might be an old Chinese proverb >but it worked alarmingly well with my huge Charlie. Jean > > > > > >Jean Gayle >Aberdeen, WA >[Authoress of "The Colonel's Daughter" >Occupied Germany 1946 TO 1949 ] >http://www.techline.com/~jgayle >Barnes & Noble Book Stores > > >
Re: Fjord heighth
This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> There is a formula somewhere, can not find it this morning as I am on my way to pick up Gunnar "the friendly one" from Anne's. At a certain month the foal is one third their expected height. Might be an old Chinese proverb but it worked alarmingly well with my huge Charlie. Jean Jean Gayle Aberdeen, WA [Authoress of "The Colonel's Daughter" Occupied Germany 1946 TO 1949 ] http://www.techline.com/~jgayle Barnes & Noble Book Stores
Re: Fjord heighth
This message is from: Mary Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Bushnell's <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This message is from: "Bushnell's" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Here's food for thought, > > has anyone seen or heard of a correlation > (projection?) between the heighth > of foals as it relates to their full mature heighth? Ruthie, Seems to me I recall something about the relation between the cannon bone length in a foal and that horse's mature height. Can't remember exactly, but it had something to do with the cannon bone not growing any longer than it is when a foal is born. So: short cannon bone at birth, short mature horse - long cannon bone, tall horse. Maybe there is a formula for figuring out just how tall a horse might grow, theoretically? Of course, all this is merely speculation at best, since how tall, large, etc., a horse ultimately becomes is very dependent on nutrition, health care, disease prevention, etc., as he/she grows. >From our experience I must say that our taller foals at birth became pretty good sized horses, while the more 'compact' foals became 'compact' horses. For example, Raintree's Lars was the tallest foal recorded by the Registry at the time of his birth(1989) - he was huge all over - and he has grown up to be a big boy. I think he is around 15.1, no idea what he weighs, but with all that size he is VERY handy. Does flying lead changes and rollbacks, etc. On the other hand, Quad-L's Drey was a very compact baby, really cute. So far as I know she is a fairly short, compact mare - somewhere around 14 hands or under(Cathy?). Most of our foals fell into the middle range - the 'heavier' built ones(more bone) at birth, became heavier horses, but with good movement; while the lighter - more 'feminine', if you will - ones are lighter horses. They have all had basically the same 'upbringing' with regard to worming, immunizations, feed, and so on. We raised our youngsters on local grass hay, supplements, and either COB or what was called 'horse ration' which was COB with a complete supplement alfalfa-based pellet included, in which case we omitted the extra supplements to be sure we did not 'double up' the selenium and other things which can be toxic in too high doses. Mary = Mary Thurman Raintree Farms [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/
Re: Fjord heighth
This message is from: "Bushnell's" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I would pick a topic I apparently can't spell! I noticed the subject title this morning and thought, "that's looks strange!" ha ha Shall I run it by again and use the word TALL instead of height? Does anyone know how tall an ordinary (middle of the scale) foal is at birth? Ruthie At 01:44 PM 05/28/2000 -0600, you wrote: >This message is from: "Bushnell's" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Here's food for thought, > >has anyone seen or heard of a correlation (projection?) between the heighth >of foals as it relates to their full mature heighth? > >how do I say this? =) > >is foal heighth a true and accurate indicator of their size as an adult? > >also, what is the average heighth of a foal at birth. > >I thought it would be interesting to have a few of the long time breeders >comment on this.. haven't heard from Anita in a while, I like her posts (I >like them ALL! one has to be so careful =) > >Teal just had a colt out of A2Z Thorson, our stallion, (he's a dandy!) and >we've had five altogether this season; four fillies before him. Been too >busy to write even, more later. > >Ruthie, NW MT > > >
Fjord heighth
This message is from: "Bushnell's" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Here's food for thought, has anyone seen or heard of a correlation (projection?) between the heighth of foals as it relates to their full mature heighth? how do I say this? =) is foal heighth a true and accurate indicator of their size as an adult? also, what is the average heighth of a foal at birth. I thought it would be interesting to have a few of the long time breeders comment on this.. haven't heard from Anita in a while, I like her posts (I like them ALL! one has to be so careful =) Teal just had a colt out of A2Z Thorson, our stallion, (he's a dandy!) and we've had five altogether this season; four fillies before him. Been too busy to write even, more later. Ruthie, NW MT
