Re: trail riding

2001-05-16 Thread truman matz
This message is from: "truman matz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >This message is from: Bonnie Liermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We walked into a >swarm of mosquitoes. Really thick. The horse started shaking, biting, >swishing, etc. I was covered and every exposed part of me was bit. My >arms were covered a

Re: whips

2001-05-16 Thread GailDorine
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 5/16/01 1:43:37 PM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Gunnar who stands and watches always flinches when the whips are > used as he had been abused. > > Ida does this, too, but she has never been abused. She went fr

Re: great gelding

2001-05-16 Thread GailDorine
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 5/16/01 1:43:37 PM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Nothing beats a "great gelding". > Except a great mare (vbg). Gail & Riba & Ida

Re: turkey basters

2001-05-16 Thread Jean Gayle
This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Great idea Denise re the spray bottle. just hope my antsy big Trakehner doesn't freak out re the spray. What a woose he is. Jean Walters Gayle Aberdeen, WA [Authoress of "The Colonel's Daughter" Occupied Germany 1946 TO 1949 ] http://use

Truck choices

2001-05-16 Thread MNoonan931
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You guys are awful on your timing!! My husband is currently in Spokane Truck hunting, Now I want a Dodge Cummins Diesel. WAHHH Sold the gas hog Suburban yesterday, and looking for a diesel pickup. Found one older GMC with a 6.2 in it, thats immacula

Re: brand

2001-05-16 Thread Northhorse
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 5/16/01 7:06:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > if you don't have a brand, do they brand them at the inspection station. > quinn has a microchip. do all the stations have scanners? what happens > if you refuse to

Re: turkey basters

2001-05-16 Thread Denise Delgado
This message is from: "Denise Delgado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> jean, for quinn i use a spray bottle of mineral oil. it works great. he usually drops when i groom him, so a quick spritz is all it takes. his private part is smegma free and slick as a whistle whatever that means!! denise - Or

Re: evaluations

2001-05-16 Thread Denise Delgado
This message is from: "Denise Delgado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> listers, i am not into showing. i just LOVE riding and playing with my horses. what do we have to do "special" for this evaluation in turlock? what does the horse have to do? do we have to dress in fancy "show clothes"? what does the

Re: brand

2001-05-16 Thread Denise Delgado
This message is from: "Denise Delgado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> if you don't have a brand, do they brand them at the inspection station. quinn has a microchip. do all the stations have scanners? what happens if you refuse to brand? do they throw you in jail? denise, just wondering...

Re: choice of trucks

2001-05-16 Thread Denise Delgado
This message is from: "Denise Delgado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> listers, we are dodge truck owners and fans now. we used to own a ford but one day it just died out in front of the house. could'nt budge it. the transmission and something else bit the dust. this dodge we have now just keeps on going.

Maine Fjord Club Demo

2001-05-16 Thread Gumbisue
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi there, The Maine Fjord Club participated in a Horse Fair on May 6. We held a raffle and earned some money for our club. We raffled off a mailbox that Patty Haggstrom painted with a Fjord Head. It was gorgeous, other raffle items were some Fjord sil

Geldings

2001-05-16 Thread Cynthia Madden
This message is from: Cynthia Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I, for one, do not believe that because a horse is gelded he is necessarily inferior to one who is not. I bought Tank for his build and potential and had him gelded because I do not want a stallion. I am not a breeder and do not intend to be

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2001-05-16 Thread DLFjords
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Found this site and wanted to share it with you. Tillie http://www.homestead.com/comanchemoon/medical.html Dun Lookin' Fjords Bud, Tillie & Amy Evers Redmond, OR http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ridge/8589

The Record Book

2001-05-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This message is from: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Judy, Your comments are good. Please remember the photographs for this publication were collected by the committee from the owners of the fjords. Many of the photographs were not taken at the time of the evaluation. (One reason why N

Rose Parade, etc.

2001-05-16 Thread Becky Vorpagel
This message is from: Becky Vorpagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi! I wanted to let everyone know that Hansel, a wonderful gelding out of our mare "Quad L's Misty" is going to be in the Portland Rose Parade this year. Although he is only six, Hansel has already been in a number of parades, but never one

Re: trail riding

2001-05-16 Thread Mike May
This message is from: Mike May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 12:29 PM 5/16/2001 -0800, you wrote: This message is from: Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jean in sunny Fairbanks, Alaska, where the first mosquitos, the big slow bombers, are out but not the little nasties. Oh yeah I remember them bugge

Re: Turkey basters

2001-05-16 Thread coyote
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonnie wrote: > ...I asked for help with my gelding's excessive smegma. > ...the mineral oil/turkey baster method ... really worked Jean Gayle crowed: > Hooray for turkey basters and mineral oil To be honest, sheath cleaning is not something I've f

Re: trail riding

2001-05-16 Thread Jean Ernest
This message is from: Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gosh, Bonnie! It sounds like Interior Alaska, the land of the BIG mosquito (and the swarms of little nasty ones!) I use some of the 95% Deet repellents on my clothes, and a bit on my skin, and have used a variety of fly sprays on the horses,

Fjordhesten Book

2001-05-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This message is from: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello Everyone, I brought back some copies of Fjordhesten - Menneskevennen written by Arve M. Bakken, Jon Hegdal and Helge Sunde, from Norway. (Heavy luggage) Anyway, I am offering them for sale. They are $55.00 which will include book

Re: Bridles Slipping & Evaluation of Geldingsf

2001-05-16 Thread Jean Ernest
This message is from: Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The colts are the ones who >get the "bad rap" for being gelded, as if there is something wrong with >them. If a stallion can't produce wonderful geldings, he shouldn't maybe be >a stallion. The young stallion I told you about is now a most won

Re: trail riding

2001-05-16 Thread Diane Turcotte
This message is from: Diane Turcotte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We bought those screen shirts for us and flymasks (absorbine) for the horse, that can go on over the bridle to help combat our awful deerflys. At 03:26 PM 5/16/01 -0400, you wrote: This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message d

Re: trail riding

2001-05-16 Thread Northhorse
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 5/16/01 12:19:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > THAT is what trail riding is like in Wi in the summer. Usually not that > bad, but very buggy. I hate it. We had bug spray on too. Does anyone > else have it lik

trail riding

2001-05-16 Thread Bonnie Liermann
This message is from: Bonnie Liermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi list; I just returned from the most awful ride. I just got a new bit and was anxious to try it out on my 5 yr old Paint. It was too muddy in the paddock and he was slipping and sliding all over. We got alot of rain last night. I wen

Re: New member

2001-05-16 Thread Northhorse
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 5/16/01 8:50:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Thanks to Lisa Pederson, we pick her brain every time we see her, we now > know to train as a single first and then start on the pairs. You chose a good brain to p

Re: Score sheets

2001-05-16 Thread Mike May, Registrar NFHR
This message is from: "Mike May, Registrar NFHR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 12:13 PM 5/16/2001 -0500, you wrote: This message is from: "truman matz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >No they are not posted on the web or any other place. I have the copies of >them & the owners are given the originals at the Eva

Re: Score sheets, geldings and evaluations

2001-05-16 Thread Starfire Farm, LLC
This message is from: "Starfire Farm, LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Catherine Lassesen writes: > >Yes, there are numbers involved and rewards. But it is the comments on the > >score sheets that are important. I encourage everyone to go and have their > >stock evaluated. Educate yourself. > ***

Re: Bridles Slipping & Evaluation of Geldingsf

2001-05-16 Thread SUSAN L GIARGIARI
This message is from: "SUSAN L GIARGIARI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello List! Finally getting some misting here in NH and hoping it will turn to rain later! On the slipping of bridles, I have had that happen with biothane bridles. Hilmar learned that he could give a little shake with his head and of

Re: Score sheets

2001-05-16 Thread truman matz
This message is from: "truman matz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >No they are not posted on the web or any other place. I have the copies of >them & the owners are given the originals at the Evaluation. > >Mike *** Thanks for the info. Just one

Re: Score sheets

2001-05-16 Thread Mike May, Registrar NFHR
This message is from: "Mike May, Registrar NFHR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 11:17 AM 5/16/2001 -0500, you wrote: This message is from: "truman matz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I said all that to ask this question,... is there anywhere on the web, (or anyplace), that one can view the score sheets on specif

Re: Score sheets

2001-05-16 Thread truman matz
This message is from: "truman matz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Catherine Lassesen writes: >Yes, there are numbers involved and rewards. But it is the comments on the >score sheets that are important. I encourage everyone to go and have their >stock evaluated. Educate yourself.

Re: Tight better than off

2001-05-16 Thread Mary Thurman
This message is from: Mary Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Jean Gayle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This message is from: "Jean Gayle" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Tell me, are the driving bridles for large horses as > hard a leather as the > minis' bridles? Jean, Not the driving bridles I've had.

turkey basters

2001-05-16 Thread Jean Gayle
This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hooray for turkey basters and mineral oil. I am glad it works for you. I still have trouble with the baster bulb popping off after the mineral oil gets to it. Plus my big horse must remember his surgery because I really have to sneak up on h

Re: choice of trucks

2001-05-16 Thread Ruth Bushnell
This message is from: "Ruth Bushnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >This message is from: " Dave McWethy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I know that occasionally the question comes up of which truck to get. I got >this clip from a Dodge Cummins List that likes to wonder about this stuff.

Re: head shaking, poorly made harness ?

2001-05-16 Thread Jean Gayle
This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You are right Lisa. These ladies are using overchecks and they are required, I think, in the shows. I know these babies would do better with out them but also what you say about cheap leather may be correct but they say they pay big bucks.

New member

2001-05-16 Thread Pat Wilson
This message is from: Pat Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi: My name is Pat Wilson and my husband OE and I have been priviledged to own Fjords for about three years. We originally bought an 18 month old filly from Cliff Pritzkow in Tooele, UT. We went back a month later and bought her half brother.

Re: choice of trucks

2001-05-16 Thread Northhorse
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nice post. We'll be up for a new truck in the next year or so. The one we bought was okay for what we did with it in NM. But now that we're trailering horses, to clinics, to lessons, to trainers, and now up to a stallion for breeding, we need a truck w

Re: brand

2001-05-16 Thread Northhorse
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 5/16/01 7:46:17 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I've never heard of brand inspections before the recent discussions.Is this > http://www.law.utexas.edu/dawson/brands/brand.htm";>BRAND LAWS <--- Here's the link

RE: Interesting Weekend / Headstalls

2001-05-16 Thread DLFjords
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mary wrote: One note: a single ear headstall is meant for use with a 'finished' bit - one with a curb mouth of some kind and a shank on it - NOT for use with a snaffle bit. For a snaffle bit you just have to find a 'browband' style headstall that fits/wil

choice of trucks

2001-05-16 Thread Dave McWethy
This message is from: " Dave McWethy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I know that occasionally the question comes up of which truck to get. I got this clip from a Dodge Cummins List that likes to wonder about this stuff. It doesn't bring into question the new GM Duramax diesel made by Isuzu, which may be a g

brand

2001-05-16 Thread Ellen Davidson
This message is from: "Ellen Davidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I've never heard of brand inspections before the recent discussions.Is this a western thing or do I need to be concerned on the east coast. Regarding the bridle thing,my driving bridle pops off very easily.I'm new at driving and keep askin

smegma update

2001-05-16 Thread Bonnie Liermann
This message is from: Bonnie Liermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi everybody: A while back I asked for help with my gelding's excessive smegma. Just wanted to let you know I used the mineral oil/turkey baster method and it really worked. I've used it twice in the past several months and he doesn't see

Re: gelding evaluations

2001-05-16 Thread Northhorse
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 5/16/01 6:33:18 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Don't assume a horse is gelded because he is inferior. Horses are gelded to > become using horses. Using horses are the ones out there consistently > performing in sp

Re: gelding evaluations

2001-05-16 Thread Lori Albrough
This message is from: Lori Albrough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Joel said "hey, there's a reason they've been gelded"... Don't assume a horse is gelded because he is inferior. Horses are gelded to become using horses. Using horses are the ones out there consistently performing in sport, in pleasure, in

Nevada State Line

2001-05-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This message is from: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lisa - The only time I was asked about a horse was at the Nevada/California line going into California. They actually had me unload the horse to look at her. (She was blanketed and I had to remove the blank on her so they could see her

Roseburg, OR Brand Inspector

2001-05-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This message is from: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Marsha Jo - The brand Inspector for the Roseburg Area is Sheryl Arp 1-541-825-3550. Catherine Lassesen

Gelding a horse

2001-05-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This message is from: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Joel, (and everyone else - hello) Yes there are reasons to castrate ... Namely there are too many studs out there. A gelding does not mean it is inferior. Form to Function ... learn about what your horse can and cannot do. A horse c