Re: fjordhorse-digest V99 #135

This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I heard some people being rigid, but nobody being particularly mean. Even the horses challenge for lead position, and they have great dispositions. Me, I'm never rigid, just right. :)

Re: in response

This message is from: Starfire Farm, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve McIlree wrote: Sometimes it might be difficult to see the importance of refraining from picking ones nose or passing gas in public, but neither is considered proper in the established etiquette.

Re: Teeth and jumping

This message is from: Starfire Farm, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Speaking of jumping and height, how high is that fence? We had an interesting experience here, before our new 5 foot fence was installed. Our paddocks were separated by a low electric fence tape, approximately 3 1/2 feet high. This tape

Re: fjordhorse-digest V99 #124

This message is from: Steven A White [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 23 Jul 1999 07:59:17 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] QUESTION: This has me baffled a good week ago, I opened up some more pasture, after the hay was taken off it, to my 2

Re: supplements

This message is from: Steven A White [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are a few pelleted supplements that provide good vitamin/mineral supplementation without adding energy. I currently use TDI 10 for our fjords. Cynthia Madden also has her horses on a diet with it and I believe is pleased with it.

Re: The no erease issue

This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jean gayle) I don't think you are an outsider Patty and you sound like a good head to me. Jean This message is from: PSB [EMAIL PROTECTED] It amazes me at how many people on this digest take offense to opinions and comments on such simple matters as

Re: Juniper Misha

This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jean gayle) Careful with that in utero clicker training Pam the fetus might be sleeping or something else. Might be surprising when you click the first time after it is born!!! That is very sweet about Moonriver, it did imprint. Jean This message is

Re: moving day : )

This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 8/1/99 10:23:43 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hooray to you Brigid on your and your two's new adventure. Know that feeling when something very precious is in the trailer. Jean Thanks, Jean! Tommes Rafael

Re: new owner of red fjord in Wisconsin

This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Congratulations Sheri! Nothing in the world like a fjord (though I have met an app or two who I have really liked). Like your barn name. Must be a handsome boy! Have fun! Pamela

new owner of red fjord in Wisconsin

This message is from: Harold Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm so happy to part of a new group of horse people. I have owned appalossa horses for some time. My daughter is going away to college in Findlay Ohio so all appys are up for sale. I bought a fjord horse what I always wanted for pleasure

The no erease issue

This message is from: PSB [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi I'm on the outside looking in on this digest. I probably qualify as a wanna be fjord owner (as of present I own a Fjaint and Fquarter horse) but train on the most awesome Fjord stallion (in my VERY humble opinion), Dusty. I would like to address

Juniper Misha

This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ah, a lighter note. Thinking about the cross of Juniper Misha, I can't imagine wanting to crossbreed out. When you have perfection! Anyway, just wanted to talk about early training. It started with this: After seeing Anne ride Misha, who is lighter

Re: breeding 3 yr old fillies

This message is from: Nathan Lapp [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is an interesting discussion. Last year we bought a three-year-old mare with foal at side, meaning she was bred at two. We were entirely new to Fjords but Julia Will told us that was too young (the breeding hadn't taken place at her farm)

Re: breeding 3 yr old fillies

This message is from: Mark and Lisa K. McGinley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey Joel, Since I'm one of the ones that bred a mare to a Big Gray (Actually I think he's 14 / 2 hh) I feel I have to respond to your post. The mare in question is 6 years old and we chose a gray for his quality not his color.

Re: sheath cleaning and clicker training

This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ann, Linda I loved meeting you at the show. I felt so sorry for all of you and the horses having to endure that heat and humidity. Too bad the show couldn't be scheduled for a month in the fall. I'll bet you were as ecstatic as we were when the

Replying to Messages

This message is from: Carolyn Dumong [EMAIL PROTECTED] At the risk of sounding Stupid...for us newcomers..how exactly do we respond to a message without including little or none of the original message? This just does not come easy to some of us who are new to this internet stuff! Especially

Re: LIGHTEN UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This message is from: B. Hendricks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, here's my two-cents. I totally agree that no crossbreeding should ever be allowed into the Fjord breed! This breed roots back into the ancient Northern dun stock that put so much tough in other European and British breeds. Yes, there

Re: Re[2]: in response

This message is from: Jean Gayle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well Steve, you give very strong arguments or examples. Phew It is more the over reaction that I am responding to and perhaps that comes from too much knowledge of human behavior. In other words perhaps I am being to analytical. I thought

Re: line breeding

This message is from: Jean Gayle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wow Brian thats pretty tricky!! I was looking for the Y of it all. Jean Jean Gayle Aberdeen, WA [Authoress of The Colonel's Daughter Occupied Germany 1946 TO 1949 ] http://www.techline.com/~jgayle -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

line breeding

This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Line breeding is generally not desireable because it eventually can result in decreased hardiness or vitality of a breed, and it can tend to magnify undesireable genetic characteristics. The hardiness or vigor can be bred right out of animals with repeated

Re: breeding 3 yr old mares

This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is no physical reason that three-year-old mares can not be bred. They have usually attained 95% of their mature size and have often been having heat periods since around the age of 1-1/2 years. We have no evidence that it hurts or stunts them in any

jumping fences

This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Teressa, If they can see over it, some time or another they'll try to jump it. : ) Brian Jacobsen

using whole message in reply

This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Even though Joel may be the only one brave or brash enough to constantly harp about it, many of us appreciate when people include little or none of the message they were replying to. It just saves time and scrolling for us, and usually, including the

Re[2]: in response

This message is from: Steve McIlree [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jean-- Sunday, August 01, 1999, you wrote: I still can not understand why people become so incensed over someone's failure to erase old messages. It is almost as though it is done deliberately? If you will note I have been a very good

Re: breeding 3 yr old fillies

This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 8/1/99 10:19:11 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is one of those Arsenio Hall hm things. Adults spend a great deal of time trying to get the grey out. Now some seem to want grey horses. Hmmm.

Re: breeding 3 yr old fillies

This message is from: Jean Ernest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh come on, Joel, be serious! :) Hey, I didn't even want to begin riding my new filly until she was four this year, and I won't do much of that until she is five. She has shown a LOT of growth and maturity in her attitudes since last year, but

Re: Congratulations on Norman!

This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alex, Thanks so much. I think I've already failed the spoiling him too badly bit!!! I can't help it!!! Yes, I live just north of Indianapolis. Anytime you'd like to stop by just let me know!!! Take care and have a good day!!! Tracy :o)

breeding 3 yr old fillies

This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I noticed a decided lack of responses to breeding 3 yr old fillies. Are we getting too close to the pocketbook here? I thought all of us were so concerned about this breed. Guess the green, or whatever the color of money in your neck of the world is, has

Re: moving day : )

This message is from: Jean Gayle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hooray to you Brigid on your and your two's new adventure. Know that feeling when something very precious is in the trailer. Jean Jean Gayle Aberdeen, WA [Authoress of The Colonel's Daughter Occupied Germany 1946 TO 1949 ]

Re: Finally!!!!!!

This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ExactlyBrigid, I don't think I've been this excited in a long time and thank you Denise for the congrats too!! Tracy :o)

Re: in response

This message is from: Jean Gayle [EMAIL PROTECTED] I guess Cheryl since you did not sign your name to the complaint you sent me some months ago, and I was not referring to it, I still can not understand why people become so incensed over someone's failure to erase old messages. It is almost as

Re: Gelding guys-why not girls?

This message is from: Jean Gayle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alex I am sure you know re AI that some breeders still do not know that certain plastic pipettes can kill the semen? Jean Gayle Aberdeen, WA [Authoress of The Colonel's Daughter Occupied Germany 1946 TO 1949 ] http://www.techline.com/~jgayle

Re: (no subject)

This message is from: Jean Gayle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hooray Jan, and yet I would not want to stifle others opinions, and remember this kind of writing media seems to evoke stronger responses then are actually meant. Bold letters can be assumed as strong words. Jean Jean Gayle Aberdeen, WA

Re: LIGHTEN UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 8/1/99 8:50:15 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LIGHTEN UP carol is entitled to her opinions and this forum is a perfect place to voice them. True. But are we not allowed to voice our opinions also?

in response

This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jean gayle, i too, am very busy and would prefer NOT to take the time to download the digest because of repeat clutter(my computer is very slow). new people to the digest are an exception.however,people who have been on the list have no excuse for being

filly or mare?

This message is from: carl and sarah nagel [EMAIL PROTECTED] i think a filly is a filly until age three, at age four she becomes a mare. same for a colt - a stud colt til three, then a stallion at four. anyone else know? Sarah Nagel in Idaho with June and Sonny :-) and at what point is she a

Re: Gray Greats

This message is from: Denise Delgado [EMAIL PROTECTED] dear ruthie, i hear fillies, colts and foals are supposed to be called by their adult tittles at age four years. maybe someone else can verify. i looked it up in a few of my horse books. denise - Original Message - From:

LIGHTEN UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This message is from: Denise Delgado [EMAIL PROTECTED] dear jan, HERE! HERE! THREE CHEERS FOR YOU!! i totally agree. i think people would not respond the way they do, if they were face to face. come on peopleLIGHTEN UP carol is entitled to her opinions and this forum is a

A Little Restraint in in Order!

This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is from Alex Wind, Shawsville, VA. Sometimes it is the things we are able to restrain ourselves from saying, rather than the things we say that truly rate us as humans of mediocre or higher caste. Didn't your Mom teach you, If you can't think

Re: Gray Greats

This message is from: Bushnell's [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 11:14 PM 7/31/99 -0500, you wrote: This message is from: Mark and Lisa K. McGinley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bushnell's wrote: Gray Nick unless I am mistaken. I saw him at Bo-Fjords and he was beautiful all right. We were thrilled to hear of his

Congratulations on Norman!

This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is from Alex Wind, in Shawsville VA. I know how exhilarating the first flush of becoming a Fjord owner can be. Tracy, where do you live in Indiana? Near Indianapolis? I sometimes visit a friend there, and I would love to have a Fjord-Stop on

Re: Gelding guys-why not girls?

This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Teressa, The reason is that the surgery for females is much more involved than the surgery for males. The gelding procedure can be done on the farm, and the recovery is almost immediate; whereas a mare would require major hospitalization, and

Re: First Hitch

This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Teresa, for the blow by blow description of the PVC poles and how your gelding was much more composed than the humans. I get a lot out of hearing other Fjord owners' first hand reactions to these training experiences. Alex Wind

(no subject)

This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good morning, list. I must say that I've been taken aback over the last several months at how quickly people seem to take offense at other's comments, and how meanly some reply to posts. The most recent flap concerns Carol, who voiced her very

Feeding at different hours so as not to overlap work

This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is from Alex Wind, in sultry broiling VA; still cools off at night. I read somewhere (Small Farm Journal) that the oldtime teamsters got up at 4:00 AM and the first chore they did on the farm was to feed the team of drafters their breakfast, so