Re: Another GREAT Blue Earth planned new members
This message is from: Pat Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Everyone, First of all thank you to all of you whom sent in your entries to the Blue Earth Show early, and for the good response we've received from adding - dividing and tweaking the classes. We DO listen to you and try to come up with a show for everyone. Thank you. The trophies for this years show are finished and they are very special. Created by the company HorseGift.com they allowed me to draw a full color Fjord head which is baked on European style Steins (very Norwegian) and for the Championships and Reserves we have Jewelry (cherry wood) boxes with a tile on the top and the same baked picture. The Oregon Fjord Club (thank you very much) is donating a cooler to the High Point Youth and just recently I learned new members to the MWFHC and NFHR, Steve and Jill Chesler, from Elizabeth, IL are donating three 3-season jackets with logo's. Custom made by Dawn Schlickman. Steve and Jill are very new members - last year they contacted me regarding buying two Fjords to enjoy on their property here in Jo Daviess County. Although Jill has some horse experience, Steve a semi retired Lawyer from Chicago did not. I wanted to make sure they had the true take care of you type of Fjord and found both of them through Tyler and Dawn Schlickman. Two very very solid mares, Mother and daughter that Tyler trained and used for his Carriage business and actually took in the Thanksgiving Day parade in Chicago. THANK YOU Tyler for selling them.good horses like them are hard to find for sale. By the way both mares are Anvil's prefix bloodlines...thank you Orville and Anita Unrau - bottom side goes back to Anvil's Torgjorn (Rich Nancy Hotovy's great (deceased) stallion by Rudaren - and top side goes to Anvil's Steinfinn with Orrjo LOVE those Steinfinn's! Love the Anvil prefix. And of course the Fair Acre's prefix - Roger and Diane Whitney kept breeding good to good and came up with stallions like Fair Acre's Ole (Patti Jo Walter owns) and Fair Acres's Sven II (That Tyler Dawn own). So...back to the people.. Jill and Steve got to meet some of the Fjord folks at the Midwest Horse Fair and was so happy to become a member are generously donating these coats. Jill will be attending the Blue Earth show. It always amazes me the kind of people the Fjord horse draws. I've said this 100 times, our membership is varied, talented in so many different ways, warm, kind, giving and in all honesty, in all of the years I've been involved with horses - (going on 37 years - oh my!...getting old there, now) the friends I've made through the Fjord world are simply THE BEST. Thank you see you all July 24th, 25th 26th in Blue Earth! Pat Holland, MWFHC Show Chairman
Re: new members
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 2/3/2003 4:03:23 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After checking on the internet, some people say not to pick the scabs because the hair will grow back white. Any suggestions? I grew up in an area where rain rot was pretty much a normal occurrence every spring, and I can remember vigorously scrubbing off the clumps/scabs with a rubber curry comb. Right down to bare skin. None of our horses ever had their back turn white. Amy Amy Evers Dun Lookin' Fjords Redmond, OR Fjord [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new members (rainrot)
This message is from: Monica Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jo Anbro said: She was recently diagnosed with rainrot. ... some people say not to pick the scabs because the hair will grow back white. After living on the Wet Coast of BC for 20 years, I've seen a lot of rainrot but I've never seen the hairs grow back in white. Everyone scrubs the scabs off before washing with Betadine. Monica in Nelson, BC
Re: new members
This message is from: Jean Gayle [EMAIL PROTECTED] My horses get rain rot every winter because they get so wet and muddy you can not keep them groomed. I begin as the weather turns warmer to comb and rub the areas as much as the horse will allow until eventually shedding and combing cure the problem. Never had a change in hair color . Sometimes heat is felt in the area and the horse may be quite sensitive so just letting shedding take care of the rot seems to work just fine. Jean Jean Walters Gayle Aberdeen, WA Author:The Colonel's Daughter $20 PO Box 104 Montesano, WA 98563
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This message is from: jo Anbro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, my husband,Don and I bought a two year old this summer from Julie Will. Julie was wonderful to work with and we were so sorry to not get to know better this wonderful person. We are keeping OH Velicia at a great farm with other Fjords. She was recently diagnosed with rainrot. The vet was not concerned but said we should pick her scabs before putting the Betadine on, and make sure she gets plenty of sunlight. That's rather difficult in Binghamton, NY. After checking on the internet, some people say not to pick the scabs because the hair will grow back white. Any suggestions? We are building a barn on our property and would also like to know if anyone has installed a Groundmaster flooring. We are having a large run in and box stall. Veli's mother, 26 year old Vanja, will be her companion horse while we borrow her. Does anyone have information on her past? Thank you so much for any help! Jo and Don Anbro- Binghamton NY ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
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This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am thinking about them too - have notified all my horsey friends. What the heck is the name of that adoption place??? Crosssabers? Linda in MN
Re: New members
This message is from: Jean Gayle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Welcome Jeanette and Donald. hope you enjoy our group. I am preoccupied with the three fjords at the slaughter house and would take one if I was not so far away. Hope people will pitch in and save them. They must have been at an auction and no bids. Hard to imagine. Jean Jean Walters Gayle Aberdeen, WA Author:The Colonel's Daughter $20 PO Box 104 Montesano, WA 98563
Re: New members
This message is from: Mariposa Farm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Donald Jeanette Rantala wrote: We are new members to the Fjord Horse list serve. Hi Donald and Jeanette, Welcome to the list and to Fjords! We are neighbors too. Our farm is in Washburn, WI This is a great bunch of people both on the list and in the Fjord world. I've got about 6 different irons in the fire but I'd like to make it to one of the Northwoods Harness Club meetings sometime. My wife and I met with someone from your club at the Superior Horse Expo one year and the club sounds great. Once again, Welcome Mark K. McGinley NFHR Director Mariposa Farm Washburn, WI
New members
This message is from: Donald Jeanette Rantala [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are new members to the Fjord Horse list serve. Name: Don and Jeanette Rantala Location: Lake Nebagamon, Wisconsin, USA which is a small village of 900 persons at the tip of Lake Superior. Horse background: During November Ezzie, a yearly Fjord, and Flynt, a weanling Fjord, joined our three Morgans, Chico (29 years), Starfire (14 years) and Apryl (9 years) and our neighbor's 7 month old pony. We ride all of our Morgans both English and Western and primarily drive Apryl. In a few years we hope to drive and ride the Fjords as well. Grooming, scratching and leading have been our major activities with them while they become more acquainted with our place. We are members of the Northwoods Harness Club, Ltd. which is open to anyone interested in the sport of driving horses and/or horse drawn vehicles. This is a group of friendly folks that help one another learn to drive and have fun. Saturday, January 12, 2003, the 17th annual Northwoods Harness Club Sleigh and Cutter Parade will be held in Duluth, Minnesota, USA at the Lester Park Golf Course. Participants (advance registration required) and spectators are welcome. A banquet is held Saturday evening for participants and an informal drive on Sunday at the stabling facilities. If there is no snow we will use wheeled vehicles at another location (this happened for the first time in 16 years in January 2002). Monthly meetings are held in the winter (without horses), driving training sessions in the spring and 4 to 6 driving activities with horses are scheduled throughout the year. Some are for one day and some include camping for several days. We look forward to learning more about you and Fjords!! -. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donald Jeanette Rantala Lake Nebagamon, WI USA 54849home (NEW 2001): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 715-374-2432 work: both of us are retired now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
New members, new websites...
This message is from: Patryjak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brigid,Anneli and Carol, Thank you for sharing your pictures! It's always fun looking at the horses and people we are reading about...kinda like having a visual members profile! Guessing ages while looking at pics...Heh! Heh! Heh! (Boy, am I bad at that) Welcome to new members... a bunch this week, I think...I'm too old to keep track :) Did you know you could go to the NFHR site...It's more than a Registry! Find farm listings with links and a gallery of pictures and where fjords are locatedTons of good info there...and regionally defined if you read farm addresses! You can spend days there...(thanks Mike) Betsy [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://foxfirefjords.homestead.com/
Welcome new members, Mary Twelveponies
This message is from: Cynthia_Madden/OAA/UNO/[EMAIL PROTECTED] It;'s so nice to see the new faces this week. To Anne in Colorado - I know of a Fjord who may be for sale in western Nebraska. He is a ranch horse and has worked cattle. Contact me privately if you are interested. He also drives beautifully as he is owned by our driving instructor. Fjords do make excellent trail horses and I am training mine under saddle in dressage. Tank and I had a wonderful trail ride last evening. He had a little of the spring spookies as he has not been out on the trails for a few months. We saw deer and wild turkeys and maybe there was a troll under that culvert he didn't want to go over. There was definitely one waving a flag at him from a hole on the trail. Mary Twelveponies is one of my favorite horse authors. She is so simple and clear and we always lend our books to beginning horse people. I highly recommend her to anyone. It was her books and a fortuitous meeting with an Air Force wife from England that got us started in dressage as a philosophy of training many years ago. Cynthia Madden, Coordinator Office of Sponsored Programs Research University of Nebraska at Omaha
