Update on Montana Fires

2000-08-10 Thread MNoonan931
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Everyone, we are all still fine, (cough cough) here in the Bitterroot Valley, the fire is about 20 miles from us, on the opposite side of the valley. The smoke is down right awful, the visibility at times is less than a 1/4 mile, Cant even see the ba

Re: Scratches

2000-08-10 Thread Jean Ernest
This message is from: Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jean, If it only occurs on his white pastern maybe it is a reaction to sun...You have had some sunny days lately, havn't you? Has he been out in clover, with the dew on it? Just some thoughts. Jean in still rainy Fairbanks, Alaska, (the Fair

Re: Scratches

2000-08-10 Thread Jean Gayle
This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Betsy thanks for the encouragement. Now I wonder if this is scratches as you and Karen are talking wet and mud and we are dry and clay. I use rubber mats in the stalls on top of screenings, crushed rock residue. The other horses have never

Re: Scratches

2000-08-10 Thread Jean Gayle
This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Karen, maybe this is not "scratches"? Here it is dry and sometimes sunny. No mud, altho that is how he first got the fungal mess years ago. They left him standing in pastern deep slime. This has the appearance of gravel and is weepy. Vet s

Re: Scratches

2000-08-10 Thread Karen McCarthy
This message is from: "Karen McCarthy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Patryjak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> freeze and thaw, freeze and thaw, constant mud. Old barn, new stalls, >old clay stall floors. In January both horses developed terrible >scratches on all four (8) pasterns.Awfull to treat

Scratches

2000-08-10 Thread Patryjak
This message is from: "Patryjak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jean...sorry to hear about your Corgi...we have mutts, but have friends with Corgi's...always at the horseshows with them, very friendly, very cute. Won't weigh in on the puppy...you'll do what's best for you and any canine companion you find..

archive?

2000-08-10 Thread P.R. Mitchell
Hi, I have recently joined the fjord list. Does the list have an archive or is there some way I can see previous posts? Thanks!

Re: fungus, fires, dogs and chickens

2000-08-10 Thread Jean Ernest
This message is from: Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have friends in Hamilton and Victor, Montana with horses (Arabs, not Fjords) and I have been tracking the Blodgett fire on the Web as it is right in their back yard. I don't think they will get burnt out as both of their homes are in open ar

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #212

2000-08-10 Thread carol j makosky
This message is from: carol j makosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Swedish Vallhunds are related to the Corgi from back in the Viking days. The > story goes that the Vikings either brought the Vallhund to British Isles and > created

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #212

2000-08-10 Thread Bushnell's
This message is from: "Bushnell's" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 06:43 PM 08/10/2000 -0700, you wrote: >This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >What is the breed Vallhund used for? Herders? > I did see one obscure website where it did portray them as herding dogs and it also made them

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #212

2000-08-10 Thread Jean Gayle
This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> What is the breed Vallhund used for? Herders? Jean Gayle Aberdeen, WA [Authoress of "The Colonel's Daughter" Occupied Germany 1946 TO 1949 ] http://www.techline.com/~jgayle Barnes & Noble Book Stores

Re: Chicken little

2000-08-10 Thread Reinbowend
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is also a tremendous need to rescue equines of every shape and size. Most areas in this country have regional horse rescue shelters. I have never seen any reason to be ashamed of buying a purebred dog as I was a breeder of Siberian Huskies for 22 ye

Re: Scratches (Herd guarding, Corgies and Vallhunds)

2000-08-10 Thread Jean Gayle
This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> So what is a Swedish Valhund? Jean Gayle Aberdeen, WA [Authoress of "The Colonel's Daughter" Occupied Germany 1946 TO 1949 ] http://www.techline.com/~jgayle Barnes & Noble Book Stores

Re: Chicken little

2000-08-10 Thread GailDorine
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] As someone who has been connected with fox terrier rescue, etc., I have to agree with Mike and Jean, it's hard work to find homes for dogs, even purebreds. But I would think a Corgie whose only fault was eating chickens could find a chickenless home.

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #212

2000-08-10 Thread Reinbowend
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Swedish Vallhunds are related to the Corgi from back in the Viking days. The story goes that the Vikings either brought the Vallhund to British Isles and created the Corgi or they took the Corgi to make the Vallhund..Both stories appease breeders and

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2000 #212

2000-08-10 Thread Pat
This message is from: Pat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > have been itching for a Swedish Vallhund. I keep > checking the websites and have registered as a rescue home, but no luck > so far. > Beth - Alan and Lois Merrill (who had the other "S" girls at Blue Earth) have a Vallhund. Cute as a button. Thei

Re: fungus, fires, dogs and chickens

2000-08-10 Thread Bushnell's
This message is from: "Bushnell's" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Ruthie, how are you and others from out west doing with the horrendous >fires? I hope all are OK and people and animals safe. There's no problem up here in the extreme northwestern corner of Montana to date, keeping our fingers crossed

Re: fungus, fires, dogs and chickens

2000-08-10 Thread Bushnell's
This message is from: "Bushnell's" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I just had a call from the rescue people and Bertie has a home with three children which should >keep him busy and happy. That's good news Jean! T H R E E children!! The son of a gun deserved that, didn't he = Ruthie

Re: fungus, fires, dogs and chickens

2000-08-10 Thread Jean Gayle
This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jane, I do have a fenced pen for the chickens but right now the "killer" drake is in it. My two ducks have ducklings so they have the freedom and the drake is banished for awhile. He will kill any babies and they are all his!! At least your

Re: Scratches (Herd guarding, Corgies and Vallhunds)

2000-08-10 Thread Bushnell's
This message is from: "Bushnell's" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 01:07 PM 08/10/2000 -0700, you wrote: >This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >So what is a Swedish Valhund? > I guess they're comparable to a Corgi in some way.. rode around on Viking ships back when.. (Reinbowend first

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2000-08-10 Thread kngould
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fungus, fires, dogs and chickens

2000-08-10 Thread Don & Jane Brackett
This message is from: Don & Jane Brackett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thank you all for all the "treatment recipes". A wealth of knowledge here. I keep printing info like this off for future reference. Ruthie, how are you and others from out west doing with the horrendous fires? I hope all are OK and

Re: Scratches (Herd guarding, Corgies and Vallhunds)

2000-08-10 Thread Bushnell's
This message is from: "Bushnell's" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Ruthie, I also, have been itching for a Swedish Vallhund. I keep >checking the websites and have registered as a rescue home, but no luck >so far. >Our stallion displayed some "guarding" behavior a couple of months ago >when a ball

Re:Racy Old mare

2000-08-10 Thread Mary Thurman
This message is from: Mary Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >From: "Sue Harrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "it would be easy to tell if she cycled in heat > and we have not noticed > anything..." On the other hand, we have a 29 year old Fjord mare who only 'cycles' in the spring - usually

Re: Scratches (Herd guarding, Corgies and Vallhunds)

2000-08-10 Thread Starfire Farm, LLC
This message is from: "Starfire Farm, LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jean - sorry to hear that you had to give up on your Corgie rescue. Thanks for the whole story. Knew there was more to it. I was given a rescue Cardigan Corgie last year, who ended up being a perfect companion for my father. We broug

Re: Re:Old mare

2000-08-10 Thread Laurie Pittman
This message is from: "Laurie Pittman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >If I were you I would be filing a Stallion Breeding Report on him just in > >case. > > > Mike, what would be the point of filing a breeding report on a x-bred? > Would it only be beneficial as far as establishing a sire should she want