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Check
http://picasaweb.google.com/gerd2304/IGFFahrquadrille#5310895903962428402
for driving pictures. For pictures of Solbjor Borken at the stallion show
see our page http://www.haffwiesenhof.de/Hengste.html - just made an English
t
This message is from: "Eike Schoen-Petersen"
Last weekend the German Jubilee Stallion Show took place at Equitana, the
world's largest equine fair, at Essen, Germany. 40 licenced and performance
tested Fjord stallions were presented to the judges for the evaluation of
typ
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Hearing such stories I am often reminded on how we discussed and decided the
wording in the breed description for the "Handbook for Fjord Horse Judges":
(A Fjord Horse is...) ... "calm in most situations." While He
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Dear Fjord Horse friends,
as has been discussed at the FHI meeting last year the German Fjord
Association, Interessengemeinschaft Fjordpferd e.V. (IGF), is celebrating its
35th anniversary this year. During this year there are two wee
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I would like to ask Ruthie (or any one else) to substantiate the claim that
the Fjord gene pool has deviated from the "original" gene pool. In my
opinion - and I have been following that question for more than 25 years -
t
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Some of them can get quite hot! - Never mind, what I wanted to say is that
this classification does not apply to the Fjord Horse. The origin of the so
called warmbloods is a long (>= 1000 years) histor
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Cherrie,
Debbie's "black" non-Fjord producing palominos (and buckskins) would be
called a "smokey" (black plus heterozygous ccr), the double dilute /
cremello black horse would be called
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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:56:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Cherrie Nolden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Fjord coloring ?
..
I've not understood the naming conventions of some of the colors. Brown
dun,
re
This message is from: "Eike Schoen-Petersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Some more information on branding in Germany:
Look at the origin of the word "brand" and what is ist used for most times
in your language today: a brand name vs. no name product. A sign of
defined an
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Well, Beth and friends, you have boldly gone where no Fjord has gone before!
Thank you for a great show and a great promotion of the Fjord Horse. It
certainly was a highlight of our trip to the USA.
Eike Scho
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In Germany two Fjords have made it into the national endurance team in the
last 25 years. Personally we successfully started our former stallion Odin
in beginners endurance rides. Starting our own veterin
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For those of you interested in the outcome of the World Pony Driving
Championships: The team competition was won by the German team including
Thomas Koppen and his Fjord-Four-in-Hand! In the individual ranking Thom
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As (German) Fjord enthusiasts we are very proud of our member Thomas Koeppen
whom we congratulate for taking 6th place in dressage with his four-in-hand
team at the Pony World Championships in Denmark. His Fjords ar
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After marathon and dressage the four-in-hand of Fjords with Thomas Koppen
from Germany is in second place as is the overall German team. Thomas
Koppen placed first in the marathon which is a first for Fjord H
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We are happy to hear from Brian and Ursula at Trinity Fjords that our babies
all arrived safe and sound. The trip from our farm in Germany out to Lumby,
British Columbia, was a performance test in itself. First th
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Even we are home now, after having a great time in Libby, meeting up with
old and new friends and generally enjoying the horses and - for once - a
great show where we had limited responsibilities. We want to than
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Karen,
the question is, how many of these mares produce a foal per average year?
Now in Norway, Denmark and Germany there were between 300 and 400 foals
registered last year (each). Mike May can tell you how ma
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Most of us are trying by selective breeding to come as close to the breeding
goal as possible. Otherwise it wouldn´t be the Fjord breeding goal. And we
are fortunate in a way that the Fjord breed is rather unifo
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To all those interested in classic dressage and Barock Riding, which is what
Richard Hinrichs stands for: there is somebody doing just this in a
professional way with - among other breeds - Fjord Horses! Our friend
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Horse and owner often are alike. So Fjord owners by definition are
"co-operative, dependable, willing and calm in most situations" as it says
in the "Official Handbook for Fjord Horse Judges".
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How far would you all think the average interested horse owner would travel
to an evaluation? How much does the professional film crew cost vs. an
evaluator? Isn´t the answer: more evaluators, more evaluations ra
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Hi list, for your long winter evenings check out some nice pictures of our
friend Ulrich Schmelzer´s horses in the snow of Thuringia, Germany:
http://slawik.com/de/index.php?section=news&gallery=./20060111
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Regarding the information on registration of all offspring of all matings
within the Fjord breed I would like to point out that the mother country
does not register the "blue-eyed-cream-dun" (homozy
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excerpts from Carol's mail on the topic:
>
> PLEASE UNDERSTAND that all this information is on record in Holland, and
> (I assume Norway). It's only a question of somebody asking for it.
>
>
> ANOTHER PR
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Thank you Steve for maintaining the list as it is. For all of us who may not
speak up too often but like to keep in touch with the North-American part of
the
Fjord-world it is good to have the list limited to the set topic
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Regarding the different posts about hoof + mouth disease: As of today there
have
been more than 400 farms with confirmed cases of h+m in Great Britain, at least
one case in Ireland, two in France, four in the Netherlands, never
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>Ok thanks. Is the registry in Germany a private organization or is it a
>government funded organization?
>
>Mike
Well Mike, those were the "good ole days". Not much funding now, but the
registries in
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>But do you name the horses that don't pass? Seems like these would be
>important to me if I was looking for a stallion to breed my mare to. I
>would want to know which ones to avoid. Or are they gelded or culled
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Thank you Mike, good explanation of your system, which I believe is quite like
what we have in place, in some aspects more elaborate, in other aspects (30 day
test) not, but exactly the same idea. Regarding the publication of only
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Hello,
did the topic "evaluations" get kicked off the list or is everybody just tired
of it? Anyway - I'll keep it going, if possible! Tell me how you feel and
what
you do about the publication of results of &qu
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> From: "Tamara Jane Habberley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: endurance Fjords / fjordhorse-digest V2000 #325
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> This message is from: "Tamara Jane Habberley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Hello Tamara and Nancy,
the stallion you mentioned was Boelja by Albert Fichtel. He ran many thousand
miles in competitions in Europe, including a 1000 km ride from Hamburg(Germany)
to Budapest(Hungary). There also was a Fjord in
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To give you some idea of a situation of seperate registry and association I can
tell you what things are like in Germany, where we have registries on state
level and a national association for the promotion of the breed. This
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As secretary of the German Fjord association (IGF), as a judge/evaluator and a
person involved with the evaluators training program in Germany and part of the
FHI-committee (FHI=FjordHorseInternational) that works on the
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Gail,
you made an important point. When I was little, there was no age requirement
for competitions and many horses were finished by the time they were 6 or 7
(thats warmbloods in Germany) Now they have put in restrictions and you
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> Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 14:18:49 +0200
> From: "Anneli Sundkvist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Old, LARGE Fjords!
>
> This message is from: "Anneli Sundkvist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Hi Karen, Gail, Sini and all imprinters,
since I've grown up in a horse-filled evironment and was myself "imprinted"
with
fjords 40 years ago I have had many different experiences with imprinted and
"wild"
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Hi Anneli,
I really enjoy your knowledgable comments on colour, in my country many people
are very confused about the inheritance of colour.
My problem is, my horses don't know about statistics! Almost every time
pos
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Hello breeders,
just to let you know, in Germany there haven't been any stallions with a white
marking licenced for many years, even though European Union law says the mother
studbook makes the rules.
Glad they made this rul
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Hello Jean and Jean and others brooding over this topic,
since I find it a very important part of conformation description of a horse I
would like to pick up the subject once again. I would like to point out, that
perception of
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David (I see you got home without blemishes...) and Jean,
now I believe you've struck an interesting topic. A very important
consideration when talking about a "typical" fjord horse body! I agree that a
long bac
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Hello everybody,
I've been listening in on the digest for a while now and since we want to make
an offer to a young person looking for some foreign experience maybe I should
introduce myself: My wife and I are veterinarian
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