Re: Saddles - Wintec

2012-07-10 Thread divingduoandcorgis
This message is from: divingduoandcor...@comcast.net I can relate to going thru a few saddles to get to the right one...including an endurance saddle that was too narrow and a western saddle that fit my horse well but I had trouble riding  in!  It has been a year for me too. I started with

RE: Saddles

2012-07-10 Thread S Sexton
This message is from: S Sexton I've got a Wintec Dressage and a Wintec AP, one with CAIR, one flocked. Both have changeable gullet. My problem is that I am on the XW gullet and it is not wide enough but I tried a Wintec Wide AP saddle and it was still tight on 1X but 2X would have dropped the sa

Re: Skogheims Viljar - white duns, etc

2012-07-10 Thread Jo Wilgus
This message is from: "Jo Wilgus" kathy kramer has a grey that looks purple to me. he is a funny horse. he loves to lick jim sverson-kerrs head. jo - Original Message - From: To: Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 1:22 PM Subject: Re: Skogheims Viljar - white duns, etc This message i

RE: Dun color

2012-07-10 Thread Curtis
This message is from: "Curtis" Jo Wilgus wrote: back 4000 or so years ago when the breed was recognized were there other dun colors? are the colors a man-made color? i am curious , not knowledgable about this. The history of the Fjord horse and the colors is very complicated and most of it is

fjords and colors

2012-07-10 Thread Debby
This message is from: "Debby" I really like the grays. Have never seen a yellow or red except pictures, but the grays are neat, just the "panda" bear look to their eyes. I'd only had the one and he was a bit much horse for me, but I thought he was beautiful and put together very nice. Per

Re: Dun color

2012-07-10 Thread jernest
This message is from: jern...@mosquitonet.com There was a time in Fjordhorse history when the White duns were popular and breeders were breeding white dun to white dun only to find that that sometimes produced a Kvit, or an all white albino with pink skin and blue eyes. As a result the White or

Re: Skogheims Viljar - white duns, etc

2012-07-10 Thread jernest
This message is from: jern...@mosquitonet.com And then there is my mare Anvil's Adel: Registered in canada as a white dun, she is very white with no real stripe in her mane, but she does have scattered BLACK hairs in her mane and tail! So is she a yellow dun? or a white dun with a few scatter

Re: Skogheims Viljar - white duns, etc

2012-07-10 Thread Lori Albrough
This message is from: Lori Albrough On 7/10/12 10:05 AM, Olivia Farm, Inc. wrote: This message is from: "Olivia Farm, Inc." For anyone interested and who doesn't know already, the White Dun color is caused by the cremello gene. On one of our trips to Norway we saw a stallion who was registe

Re: Saddles

2012-07-10 Thread S K
This message is from: S K Hi Stephenie!  I like your reply, not confusing at all !!!  That's Exactly what I'm going to dotake my time and hunt around...I'd like to bring Andy down to the tack shop but it's an hours ride and can't go without his baby brother...I have never tried to trailer th

Re: Skogheims Viljar - white duns, etc

2012-07-10 Thread Olivia Farm, Inc.
This message is from: "Olivia Farm, Inc." Hello,   For anyone interested and who doesn't know already, the White Dun color is caused by the cremello gene.  All this does is lighten the coat color in Fjords.  Unlike grey duns and red duns where you need a pair of genes to get the resulting color,