Re: Frozen manure piles

1999-01-07 Thread jean gayle
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jean gayle) I don't know where I have more fun than on this channel! The idea of turning the paddock into a golf course is really brilliant. I wonder if there might not be a bit of a reverberation as the head of the club connects with a solidly frozen

Re: Congrats...

1999-01-07 Thread jean gayle
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jean gayle) Thanks alot Ingrid, will be so nice to get back in the saddle again and have some semblance of conditioning, my own of course.. Jean. This message is from: Ingrid Ivic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Jean, This fellow has a personality that

Round pen work + other stuff

1999-01-07 Thread Nancy Lehnert
This message is from: Nancy Lehnert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Misha (glad to hear from you!) and others for your thoughts on the round ring. We also have had great success using both a 30' and a 60' round ring made from tall metal panels with rounded corners. We teach voice commands but

Frozen manure piles

1999-01-07 Thread Frederick J. (Fred) Pack
This message is from: Frederick J. (Fred) Pack [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regarding frozen manure piles: For those of you who are golfers, it is a great time. A nine iron whisks those apples out of the area in no time and you get to practice for free VBG Regards to all, Fred and Lois Pack Pack's Peak

Congrats...

1999-01-07 Thread Ingrid Ivic
This message is from: Ingrid Ivic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Jean, This fellow has a personality that lights up the barn and manners to boot so what is a small defect at his age and mine. Jean Gayle Congratulations on the new horse. Have fun! :o) Ingrid

Re: Wholeflingers, according to Jean Gayle

1999-01-07 Thread jean gayle
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jean gayle) Peg, I should have added that a Halflinger is one who half heartedly throws things. Whereas the wholeflinger really lets fly! Do you ever get to olympia? Jean of Aberdeen Jean Gayle --- A Subscriber at Techline

Re: toeing in

1999-01-07 Thread jean gayle
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jean gayle) You are a gem Jean of Alaska and thanks for you words of wisdom. Jean of the 101 of rain country. T Jean Gayle --- A Subscriber at Techline

Re: toeing in

1999-01-07 Thread Jean Ernest
This message is from: Jean Ernest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jean in Washington: Beauty is as beauty does! So what if he toes in , if he can do what you want and stay sound? You're not going to breed him, or try to win halter classes. And personality and temperment are probably the most important

Re: Six-inch bits and custom saddles

1999-01-07 Thread Heyvaert
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Heh Jean! I had to laugh at your comment on the frozen manure piles! Yesterday, we tried a new tactic. Instead of chipping away with our shovels and filling the manure buckets 1/2 up with snow, Doug got the tractor out with the bucket on the front. It

Re: toeing in

1999-01-07 Thread jean gayle
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jean gayle) Thanks Jean of Alaska, this horse that i am buying toes in in all four but goes quite well over jumps etc. He has not had proper care of the feet recently so I think we can improve some of this with proper trimming, slowly. It is amazing how

cold

1999-01-07 Thread SSlotness
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It sounds like Lisa Pederson in CA is getting her revenge for the 100+ temps she had in the summer. Now we're the ones (up north) who can't work with our horses due to the weather! I had the pleasure of filling the trough today, after dark, and then trying

Re: Back from vacation

1999-01-07 Thread jean gayle
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jean gayle) Great story Carol, an offspring to be really proud of and welcome back. Jean Gayle Jean Gayle --- A Subscriber at Techline

Re: fjordhorse-digest V98 #303

1999-01-07 Thread Mary Ellen Thomas
This message is from: Mary Ellen Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message is from Mel Thomas (Alias Mary Ellen Thomas) To: Peg Knutsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] All right, all right, all right!!! Everyone knows whether your horse takes you to Gayle's or you take your horse to Gayle's, You BOTH Get

Re: toeing in

1999-01-07 Thread Jean Ernest
This message is from: Jean Ernest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jean, Toeing in is a conformational defect and some Fjords do, and consequently do paddle. I think it would be more common with the drafty wide chested fjords. My friends here in Fairbanks have one who toes in slightly. None of mine do. My

Thanks, Jeans

1999-01-07 Thread Jon A. Ofjord
This message is from: Jon A. Ofjord [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Jeans (Gayle Ernest) You gals made my day. I actually got out and did a little work around the barn. You know, sticking to what I know. There were many piles the gang had left laying around. Cut a few manes. It was actually quite

Re: Back from vacation

1999-01-07 Thread Arthur Rivoire
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arthur Rivoire) Hi Everybody from Carol Rivoire at Beaver Dam Farm in Nova Scotia - In case anybody was wondering, No, I didn't go away mad. We were just on vacation in the States for the holidays. We had a wonderful time. We drove down through New

Re: Six-inch bits and custom saddles

1999-01-07 Thread Jean Ernest
This message is from: Jean Ernest [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've been searching in vain for a 6-inch Australian snaffle. Smuckers has them, but only up to 5 1/4. I'd appreciate any leads. This topic came up recently on the Carriage Driving List. One way is to have the bit special made by an outfit

Re: Six-inch bits and custom saddles

1999-01-07 Thread Marsha Jo Hannah
This message is from: Marsha Jo Hannah [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peg at Knutsen Fjord Farm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been searching in vain for a 6-inch Australian snaffle. Smuckers has them, but only up to 5 1/4. I'd appreciate any leads. This topic came up recently on the Carriage Driving

Re: Letter

1999-01-07 Thread Mike May, Registrar NFHR
This message is from: Mike May, Registrar NFHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 04:04 PM 1/7/99 -0500, you wrote: This message is from: Dolph Courchaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] I thought of saying something but was a little hesitant, because of a lack of knowledge of the history behind the whole thing. Brook

Six-inch bits and custom saddles

1999-01-07 Thread Knutsen Fjord Farm
This message is from: Knutsen Fjord Farm [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message is from Peg: Hi all, I've been searching in vain for a 6-inch Australian snaffle. Smuckers has them, but only up to 5 1/4. I'd appreciate any leads. Also, in response to some on the requests for saddles, I'd like to

Wholeflingers, according to Jean Gayle

1999-01-07 Thread Knutsen Fjord Farm
This message is from: Knutsen Fjord Farm [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message is from Peg: I want to thank you for your very clear explanation that a Wholeflinger is a horse resulting from breeding a Haflinger to a Fjord. There is so much to learn in this field, and I really appreciate your

Re: Letter

1999-01-07 Thread Steve McIlree
This message is from: Steve McIlree [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike-- Thursday, January 07, 1999, you wrote: Well I thought that the letter that was included with the NFHR membership renewals would have sparked a little more conversation than it did. So what do people think about it? Well, I sat

Letter

1999-01-07 Thread Dolph Courchaine
This message is from: Dolph Courchaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike May wrote; Well I thought that the letter that was included with the NFHR membership renewals would have sparked a little more conversation than it did. So what do people think about it? I thought of saying something but was a

Re: Letter

1999-01-07 Thread Mike May, Registrar NFHR
This message is from: Mike May, Registrar NFHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 11:42 AM 1/7/99 -0800, you wrote: This message is from: Marsha Jo Hannah [EMAIL PROTECTED] So what do people think about it? My first reaction was FINALLY IMHO, rejoining NFHR and NFA is many long years overdue. Yes I

thanks for the chuckle...

1999-01-07 Thread Ingrid Ivic
This message is from: Ingrid Ivic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Peg, And the other day when Pepper was tired of doing time in the smaller paddock she managed the great escape. Doug reports that while he was taking the manure cart carefully out through the gate, Pepper saw her chance and jumped over

Re: lungeing

1999-01-07 Thread Marsha Jo Hannah
This message is from: Marsha Jo Hannah [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I put up a simple round pen using fiberglas poles and 1 strand of electric tape [...] I don't have electricity to this set - up and have never had any problem keeping my mare or gelding within the boundaries

Letter

1999-01-07 Thread Mike May
This message is from: Mike May [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well I thought that the letter that was included with the NFHR membership renewals would have sparked a little more conversation than it did. So what do people think about it? Mike

Re: Letter

1999-01-07 Thread Marsha Jo Hannah
This message is from: Marsha Jo Hannah [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought that the letter that was included with the NFHR membership renewals would have sparked a little more conversation than it did. So what do people think about it? My first reaction was

Re: Cabin Fever

1999-01-07 Thread jean gayle
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jean gayle) Hey Crabby Mary, its 47 deg here in dreary Aberdeen Wa. and misting. the kind of weather all you want to do is go back to bed. To heck with the horses. Jean Gayle Jean Gayle --- A Subscriber at Techline

Re: Cabin Fever

1999-01-07 Thread Jean Ernest
This message is from: Jean Ernest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mary, It's -33 F here this morning in Fairbanks, clear and no wind, with some ice fog in town. Going to get up to -25 degrees today, Hooray! :-) but we're gaining daylight at the rate of 5 minutes per day now! Total day length of 4:22 hours

Re: Halflingers

1999-01-07 Thread Heyvaert
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peg, I got such a kick out of your message on your Fjord jumping out of the paddock. What a riot! Hope he didn't hurt himself. I, also put a ball in the paddock, but he doesn't really do anything with it. The other day we were looking at a new horse at

Talked to Norway today!

1999-01-07 Thread Catherine Lassesen
This message is from: Catherine Lassesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just got off the phone with Erhart at the FHI. Here's the news about the trip. They have saved us rooms at a hotel that will be Bed and Breakfast. The price will be known in a few days. They have also arranged for a mini bus to bus