"Laurie's choice"

2009-09-25 Thread JadeBear
This message is from: jadeb...@aol.com "Laurie's choice" are definitely the operative words here. Everyone is entitled to their personal opinions but NO ONE is entitled to set themselves up as the Acme Judgement Company. Only the person who has to make one of these difficult decisions can kno

Re: Happy free trip to Norway

2009-09-25 Thread Melinda Schumacher
This message is from: Melinda Schumacher Wow! That is so cool! (except for your CA weather!). Melinda in cool comfortable Pittsburgh On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Bonnie MacCurdy < bonniemaccu...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > This message is from: Bonnie MacCurdy > > Hi List! It has been a lo

RE: Here's my (sort of) happy topic ...poultry

2009-09-25 Thread Karen McCarthy
This message is from: Karen McCarthy Yikes, this brings back only fond memories of the Guinea hens we had. We had 6, and they excelled at scavenging bugs, etc They were a bit loud at times, but we put up with it. The funniest thing though was they really liked to hang out under my stallion Sven

Part 2

2009-09-25 Thread Pedfjords
This message is from: pedfjo...@aol.com After a few days here at home taking care of the new batch of corgi pups and riding more at 3-Peaks, Laura and I took off for my friends summer place on the mountian. They run a sheep herd of around 300 ewes, who lamb in March around 800 lambs. The

RE: Here's my happy topic for the day

2009-09-25 Thread Perry
This message is from: "Perry" I've grown turkeys as pastured poultry for the last few years. Like chickens they do an excellent job on the manure pile and have made a HUGE difference in my fly population. For additional entertainment the turkeys closely supervise my poop scooping. They run righ

Happy Topic

2009-09-25 Thread morrisshadowmt
This message is from: morrisshado...@aol.com Hello Corrine Yes we have a bunch of chickens as well. They do a good job on manure! They all got names (the kids at my summer camps named them all) . we have a Gloria (she lays double yokers) a Tina, 2 matching roosters little cochen banti

Re: Rainbows and Unicorns

2009-09-25 Thread Sarah Clarke
This message is from: Sarah Clarke Lisa, I read your post thouroughly and did not find the unicorn information I was looking for!     Just last week I was in up state new york visiting seldom seen relatives and I thought I would entice my cousins 5 year old grandaughter by telling her she could c

Re: Here's my happy topic for the day

2009-09-25 Thread Jo Wilgus
This message is from: "Jo Wilgus" That is a wonderful story. I wish we could have chickens but the coyotes like them. There are folks up here who have chickens but they corral them each night. Richard and I are the poop pickers here 2x a day. I think I heard chickens eat snails too. Tortoise

Re: I hoped I hadn't forgotten any Gjest sons, but I did

2009-09-25 Thread Beaver Dam Farm
This message is from: "Beaver Dam Farm" Hello Everybody from Carol Rivoire at Beaver Dam Farm in Nova Scotia - When I wrote Gjest's obituary, there was a paragraph towards the end where I mentioned sons of Gjest who are breeding stallions and making significant contributions of their own. -- I

Here's my happy topic for the day

2009-09-25 Thread Corinne Logan
This message is from: Corinne Logan Last month we had to medicate some of our hens as a couple had the runs and we wanted to take care of all of them at once. So while we wouldn't eat those eggs, I thought, why not save them and see if the new roo is doing his job. Sure enough, after 20 days in t

Colorado Fjords

2009-09-25 Thread Nancy Newport
This message is from: Nancy Newport Hi Becky Sue, Where are you located in Colorado? We do have a newly formed (last year) regional Fjord club as Lisa mentioned and we would love to have you participate. Our Fjord Fun Day at Starfire Farm in Berthoud is a blast with something for everyone and gre

Re; Stumpers story

2009-09-25 Thread Sue Harrison
This message is from: "Sue Harrison" Hi Linda... in defense of Jen... no one is guaranteed a certain number of days or years on this earth...only God knows that. I hang on to my animals too long sometimes...but then again who knows whether it will be 1 year or 10 before the inevitable happens.

Re: my choice with charlie

2009-09-25 Thread CrystalZak
This message is from: crystal...@aol.com In a message dated 9/24/09 10:17:39 PM, owner-fjordhorse-dig...@angus.mystery.com writes: > Correct me if I'm wrong - but Laurie/Oz - wasn't there a situation where > you > had to move? and you were "contemplating" the decision of saving the agony > of

Happier topic

2009-09-25 Thread igs4me tds.net
This message is from: "igs4me tds.net" OK folks on a happier note, did anyone else see the terrific photo on the cover of the Sept/October issue of Driving Digest?If you didn't see it yet, the caption says it is junior drive Maggie Sullivan who won the Intermediate Single Pony class at the Bromon

List of Fjordie saddles

2009-09-25 Thread mypumpkin
This message is from: "Also I am consolidating a list of fjord approved :) saddles based on > riders recommendations that I'll post herelater. Anyone else want to > add their favorite western English or endurance saddle choices for > fjordies. " I am ready to buy a saddle for my jumbo wide b