Farmers Fair

This message is from: "Margaret Strachan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We just returned from the Perris (Riverside County) Farmers Fair with Bjuti our mare. You never heard so many 'fjord' questions or saw so many people petting a fjord (and neither did Bjuti). She went in the midway parade every night and

Re: rabies shots

This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oops to all on the list!! That last email was supposed to go to Jean Gayle. Sorry!

Re: rabies shots

This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Jean, I am hoping you are the person who was writing awhile ago about using some form of crushed rock on your farm. If not, please excuse me! Anyway, we are having a very difficult time keeping our pens, walkways, etc., from turning into mudpits. I

10 new FJORD FANS

This message is from: "Catherine Lassesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello... We had a great weekend with Students from George Fax University visiting for a retreat. They "stood on the horses" (vaulting) and trail rode. One young lady from Japan, never saw a horse in person before. She rode "Belle". She

Re: rabies shots

This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Your point is well taken Debby, re rabies shots and what would happen if a horse did not have one and was suspected of rabies. I think it was the "headless horseman" not the "headless horse." Ugh Jean Gayle Aberdeen, WA [Authoress of

Re: rabies shots

This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 10/17/99 11:32:54 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Better safe than sorry, even when we have our own place I believe I'll vaccinate for rabies. Debby in TX >> Yes. Our last vet relocated from Texas to Oregon. Told

Re: rabies shots

This message is from: GAIL RUSSELL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We have rabies here - and I'm told its occurence in local cattle and horses is not extremely rare. And the danger is that the horse will look sick, so you stick your hand into their mouth to treat/inspect - and are exposed to the saliva. I'd

Hi Steve

Hi Steve! I'd like to get back on the list after a break caused by some travelling I've done. Can you tell me what do to? Thank you in advance and all the best, Sini. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Coyotes singing

This message is from: "Knutsen Fjord Farm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi all - I'm taking a minute from painting [before the carpet guys get here] to reply to all the helpful reports on coyotes and why they sing. We have our two goldens and goat in a yard enclosed by 5-foot "no-climb" fencing. There's

rabies shots

This message is from: "Fred & Lori Osmond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi all, We have always given our horses rabies shots here in California. Like someone else said, they're not expensive and definately worth it!!! There have been 3 cases or so of bats with rabies in Calfornia in the past few weeks!!!

rabies shots

This message is from: Debby Stai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We keep our four at a military stables in Texas, and have done so in Georgia. The military vet requires yearly rabies vaccines on all dogs, cats and equines. I know of several horses that have bitten people, not their owners, and when these peo

Re: coyotes

This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Denise do not be so sure it is not bats re rabies. The child that died here was killed by a bat as they found it in her room after she died. Tells a bit about housekeeping too. Jean Gayle Aberdeen, WA [Authoress of "The Colonel's Daughter"

Re: coyotes

This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Martie I love that name Igor. In the spring when the bat babies are here, I find them clinging to the dogs fur and the dogs not the least concerned. In the beginning when I first came here, I would call the sheriff to come get them out of my

Re: Athletic Fjords - Addition to NFHR site

This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lindsay, "What do you have to say?" is a good prompt. The "unfriendly one" who went so far yesterday letting me hold his sweet head for one split second. Poor guy is losing his battle of aloofness. I can now also give him apples by hand and

Re: coyotes

This message is from: "Karen McCarthy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Denise Delgado writes: with winter coming, hairless makes more sense for the mud. I think you might have this backwards, Denise. The feathering 'round the fetlocks is designed to act rather like a downspout on a raingutter, and car

Re: Coyotes riding

This message is from: "Starfire Farm, LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Knutsen Fjord Farm wrote: > We'll be adding diamond > mesh or "no climb" to the panels for the babies and for Clark, the goat > formerly known as Prince, to stay in with Erlend. They still are in the > honeymoon phase of their rela

rabies

This message is from: Ingrid Ivic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Just wonder what the general concensus on > this list is with regards to rabies shots. > > Pamela > Hi Pamela, We vaccinate our animals for rabies...heard the same comments from a few vets in our area, that there isn't a huge call for i

Re: Introduction

This message is from: "Starfire Farm, LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Danny, Welcome to the list. There are a number of fjords out there who are accomplished jumpers! Check them out on the NFHR website at http://www.nfhr.com -- Beth Beymer & Sandy North Starfire Farm, Berthoud CO www.starfirefarm.

Re: help with trailers and travel

This message is from: "Starfire Farm, LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Laura, Sounds like you had a great time at Gladstone. Just to be there would be awesome! Sounds like you and Craig need to do the draft horse/fresian/warmblood thing and get a semieighteen wheeler, that is

Re: Life doesn't get much better than this

This message is from: "Starfire Farm, LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > About an hour's drive from our ranch, there is a state funded park on the > beach that is for horses only, nice graveled parking area large enough to > accomodate several trailers, camping sites, hitching

Re: coyotes

This message is from: "Denise Delgado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dear martie, that's an amazing story! i makes you wonder about communication between different animal species, etc. or maybe they were bats or horses in a past life and felt comfortable with one another or? we have about five bat

Re: Athletic Fjords - Addition to NFHR site

This message is from: "Lindsay&Jim Sweeney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- > From: Jean Gayle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Athletic Fjords - Addition to NFHR site > This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Mike that pic of Stovar is beautiful. all of the gangly traits and soft ey

Re: coyotes

This message is from: John and Martie Bolinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jean, We have a live-in bat in our barn. He has been with us so long my sister's kids named him Igor. He first came to us when I bought my old quarter horse (another rescue story). One night BJ came into the barn with a bat r

Re: Rabies and spiders ..

This message is from: "Cheryl Beillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's common practice to give your farm animals rabies shots in this part of eastern Candaa (at least, hobby farmers .. I suspect the local dairy/beef crew don't bother but one of our neighbours on our last farm had to shut down production