Horse market

2010-05-05 Thread Tonja Acker-Richards
This message is from: Tonja Acker-Richards My sister teaches riding at a quality east coast private school with an equestrian program. She says " every day people call begging for the school to take their horses...from hunters to jumpers because they can not afford to feed them"! Sad sta

MN Horse Expo (long)

2010-05-05 Thread Kathy M. Johnson
This message is from: "Kathy M. Johnson" If the adage of "it takes a village to raise a child". I can testify that it takes a whole TEAM to do an Arena Driving Trail Demonstration. Minnesota Whips & Wheels Carriage Club and the St. Croix Horse and Carriage Club were asked to provide drivers a

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2010 #68

2010-05-05 Thread ruth bushnell
This message is from: "ruth bushnell" This message is from: reinbow...@vermontel.net The Norwegian Fjord is NOT a rare breed. (no name) I see no reason to dispute the reference, it is what it is regardless of our individual perception. A (unique) breed that began with precious few founder

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2010 #68

2010-05-05 Thread reinbowend
This message is from: reinbow...@vermontel.net This message is from: "ruth bushnell" Another drawback is that health selection is still "directional selection," the bane of every rare breed; The Norwegian Fjord is NOT a rare breed. --

Re: Evaluations

2010-05-05 Thread Mary Nelson
This message is from: Mary Nelson Thank you Phillip for clearly & objectively discussing evaluations.  As a soon to be owner of a fjord - I find evaluations are extremely helpful in educating myself on what constitutes a quality fjord & correct fjord conformation.  Obviously there are variations

Re: breeding/evaluations

2010-05-05 Thread Amy Evers
This message is from: Amy Evers This message is from: "Cheryl" y opinion, short n sweet. Freedom to do what I want with MY animal, the hoice to breed to a specific animal, education to make the right breeding hoices.. heryl in Co Yes, Cheryl that's true. And always, along with freedom (in

Re: Breeding/ Cushings origin

2010-05-05 Thread ruth bushnell
This message is from: "ruth bushnell" This message is from: Me Kint ... I think if would be great if NFHR could develop a system to record ..issues that might be genetically transferable Breeders could use this information to ... stop using these sires/dams that produce progeny that dev