Re: Let's hear it for staghorn sumac!

2000-01-02 Thread Cheryl Beillard
This message is from: "Cheryl Beillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have and do enjoy the splendid effect of sumac when it colours the hills red in the fall and value it as a food source for deer and birds. Normally I refuse to allow any "trimming" .. but in this case, we are trying to recover an old p

Re: Acorns & other stuff...

2000-01-02 Thread Jean Gayle
This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Regarding miniature goats. When I visited my niece in Montana in the fall she had just acquired a miniature doe. It had been at a petting zoo and was ill and my niece must rescue the world. She had it trained to use a tub, she was raising i

Re: Happy New Year

2000-01-02 Thread Jean Gayle
This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hilarious Steve. Is this what you have to look at when messages come in HTML format? Happy New year to you and yours/ Jean Jean Gayle Aberdeen, WA [Authoress of "The Colonel's Daughter" Occupied Germany 1946 TO 1949 ] http://www.techline

Re: pine trees and pigmy goats

2000-01-02 Thread Denise Delgado
This message is from: "Denise Delgado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dear ingrid, another thought on pygmies. they love to climb, more than any other goats. you have to make sure they have something to play on and can't get out over the fence. denise - Original Message - From: "Ingrid Ivic" <[EM

Re: pine trees and pigmy goats

2000-01-02 Thread Denise Delgado
This message is from: "Denise Delgado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dear ingrid, i keep my two nubian goats out with my two fjords. they started out in a large dog-sized two story home-built doghouse hand me down shelter. the first day, my fjords insisted on nosing around, trying to get at the hay insid

Re: pine trees and pigmy goats

2000-01-02 Thread Heithingi
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Ingrid, everyone, We have two goats, a Nubian and a Fainting goat. The Nubian is the biggest brat we have ever seen as he can get into everything one can imagine. The up side is he is like a dog, greeting everyone who comes over, trying to jump on t

RE: What size "bale a day"?

2000-01-02 Thread Evers
This message is from: Evers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The hay we are feeding is a nice Orchard grass in two string bales that go about 60 - 65 lbs per bale. So I guess that means the horses are getting approximately 10 lbs each, twice a day. They are not wasting any ( ie. no hay trampled into the dirt

Re: pine trees and pigmy goats

2000-01-02 Thread GAIL RUSSELL
This message is from: GAIL RUSSELL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You may have over-estimated the interest goats have in weeds that your horses don't like. What are you hoping they will eat?Goats do like woody plants (your newly planted young fruit trees, for example) but I would guess the Fjords will

pine trees and pigmy goats

2000-01-02 Thread Ingrid Ivic
This message is from: Ingrid Ivic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > They aren't really eating a lot of pine, they just > take a bite every now and then, but I guess all my pine trees will > eventually be bare below five feet or so. But I've kept the pregnant mares > out of that field, just in case pine needle

Romulus

2000-01-02 Thread Dave McWethy
This message is from: " Dave McWethy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I see my name mentioned next to Romulus. Brian is training him to drive. I admired him and watched Brian ground drive him. He is a little demanding, but not a bad guy, very smart, and very nice to look at. I think it is a good move to h

Visit

2000-01-02 Thread Dave McWethy
This message is from: " Dave McWethy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Now I've got my feet back on the ground,I wanted to tell the list I had a chance to visit Brian and Ursula Jensen at their farm over Christmas. I went with my family to Seattle and Whistler BC, and had a day I could drive over the hills (b

Re: fjordhorse-digest V100 #2

2000-01-02 Thread GailDorine
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 1/2/00 11:05:10 AM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << ticket purchasers can't be trusted (for foal care); >> This sure makes sense to me since "anybody" can buy a ticket and I wouldn't trust just "anybody" with my ho

Re: Acorns & other stuff...

2000-01-02 Thread Denise Delgado
This message is from: "Denise Delgado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> yes, i have seen mine eating acorns too. we have native california, white oak, blue oak, live oaks and black oaks. no problem for them. the eat the grass and the acorns in one mouthful. crunch, crunch. denise, central sierra nevadas.

Re: Acorns & other stuff...

2000-01-02 Thread Denise Delgado
This message is from: "Denise Delgado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dear lori, mine do the same thing. they don't eat a lot of the needles, just a mouthful or two, but their breath smells like a christmas tree! no ill effects. denise - Original Message - From: "Lori Albrough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fjordhorse-digest V100 #2

2000-01-02 Thread DBLDAYFARM
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 01/02/2000 11:04:47 AM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > For those of you that have received your Winter issue of the Fjord Herald I thought I had renewed my subscription, but seen no winter issue yet. How do I find

Re: Libby 2000 Raffle

2000-01-02 Thread Bushnell's
This message is from: "Bushnell's" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 10:28 AM 01/01/2000 -0800, you wrote: >This message is from: "Ron & Sherrie Dayton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Hi List, > >This is in response to Ruthie Bushnell's questions about raffling off a >Fjord colt. There were several reasons that we

New List Info

2000-01-02 Thread Steve McIlree
This message is from: Steve McIlree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I've had several people ask me about the digest on the new list. Why doesn't it come as regularly as it did from the old server? Here is the answer for all. The digest comes out slightly differently from the new server than it did

market

2000-01-02 Thread saskia schoofs
This message is from: "saskia schoofs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi all, this morning I went to the market in my village. There is a small animal-section, with some horses, cows, etc. As it is January the 2nd, there were only 4 horses, but... one of them was a Fjord! He looked young, I think 18 months

test

2000-01-02 Thread Arthur Rivoire
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arthur Rivoire) Happy New Year from all of us at Beaver Dam Farm in warm Nova Scotia - Carol and Arthur Rivoire & all the crew Carol and Arthur Rivoire Beaver Dam Farm Fjords II R.R. 7 Pomquet Antigonish County Nova Scotia B2G 2L4 902 386 2304 http://ww

Breeding Articles

2000-01-02 Thread Mike May
This message is from: Mike May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For those of you that have received your Winter issue of the Fjord Herald and are looking for the Articles on the nfhr.com web site that Dr Brian Jacobsen referred to in his Article they are now posted on the web site. Here is a link to them: