New Website

2009-02-19 Thread Erin Yanish
This message is from: Erin Yanish Greetings all,I am one of the more quiet member of the list. Once in awhile I add a post, Just an FYI: Our family found some old documents from 1909. Apparently our farm was named and registered officially with the state of MN as Silver Leaf Farm.This has

Re: pulling shoes

2008-12-13 Thread Erin Yanish
This message is from: Erin Yanish ' My feeling on shoes is only if needed.  We only put shoes on our fjords if we are driving them on tar frequently.  Our experience was that our fjords were pretty durable on most any surface except tar and cement.  This is when we drive and ride our fjord

Re:Hay Cubes?

2008-01-22 Thread Erin Yanish
This message is from: Erin Yanish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A caution on hay cubes: Many people do not know this but I have heard that they will just throw a whole hay bale (twine and all, quality bale or not) in and chop it up and then make the cube. Then it is in limbo for some time bef

Re: quiet fjords

2008-01-03 Thread Erin Yanish
This message is from: Erin Yanish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> That was great Laurie!!! Thank you for the humor today Erin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] i have found oz to be a pretty quiet boy, though he will give a low nicker when hay approaches, or

Re: Senate Bill 311

2007-12-03 Thread Erin Yanish
This message is from: Erin Yanish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thank you for all the feed back. I was looking for view points. When I receive information on different topics I like to do research on them before making any decisions. Again I thank you for the feed back! Erin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Senate Bill 311

2007-11-29 Thread Erin Yanish
This message is from: Erin Yanish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I received this from another horse organization I belong to. Thought I would share with the list to get some view points. The point they present is that owners may sell horses unaware of the buyer's intent with the animal and

Re: New website

2007-05-24 Thread Erin Yanish
This message is from: Erin Yanish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Your website is great!!! I love the "news columns" idea. Very cute and informative!! Erin and the herd in central Minnesota, where it is wet and windy...very windy lately!! (But what a blessing for the horses...the g

Re: eyes on Fjords

2007-05-16 Thread Erin Yanish
This message is from: Erin Yanish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I know it does refer to "pig eyes"on the NFHR Website (follow the link below and click on NFHR Breed Standard Document. It is on page 5 Figure 1B) http://www.nfhr.com/newsinfo.html#Documents Yes some do

Re: vaccines

2007-05-14 Thread Erin Yanish
This message is from: Erin Yanish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Laurie, You are a sweet thing! (So is Oz!) Just my thoughts... Whatever works for you...works for you. I believe people get too caught up in the medical politics. Personally, my family uses remedies and homeopathy

Re: a survey

2007-05-10 Thread Erin Yanish
This message is from: Erin Yanish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We often get visitors from all over. Most are friends of friends who really want to see horses and so they come over for an afternoon and check them out. We drive our fjords, so we usually hook them up and after a quarter mile dow

Updated Website

2007-05-07 Thread Erin Yanish
This message is from: Erin Yanish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Greetings everyone! I have updated Vista Ridge Farms website! I have more pictures and navigation friendly pages!! I am just excited to share!!! www.vistaridgefarms.com Have a great week!! Erin Vista Ridge

Fjords For Sale

2007-04-23 Thread Erin Yanish
This message is from: Erin Yanish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The following link is to our farm. My mother is the owner of the fjords. Because of her job commitments she is having to downsize. She currently owns 7 fjords with two more on the way. There is just no time to work with th

RE: Barefoot trimming

2007-02-26 Thread Erin Yanish
This message is from: Erin Yanish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My husband does trimming and hot shoeing. Hot shoeing does not 'accommodate a flat iron horseshoe'. When my husband is shoeing a horse he is constantly measuring the hoof and fitting the shoe to the natural hoof. By fitt

Re: Aggressive in Field

2007-02-16 Thread Erin Yanish
This message is from: Erin Yanish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Horses are funny sometimes. We had a gelding (Mo) that would match his pasture buddies. If he was with the weanlings he was playful and gentle. When he was with the stallion he would bully right back. When we had a horse that might

Interesting recovery

2007-02-07 Thread Erin Yanish
This message is from: Erin Yanish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Just thought I would share an interesting story: In November, one of our fjord fillies (under 1 year) had a little congestion while she was breathing. Then her legs filled with fluid. We had the vet out immediatel

Re: Please don't lump Fjords in categories -- What every Fjord is.

2007-01-24 Thread Erin Yanish
This message is from: Erin Yanish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >This will be so fun!!! Lets see how big we can make this list. Only one rule >no >negatives > > >1. Their love of food > >2. Very large puppy dog eyes with big baty eyelashes > >3. Love treats > >4

Re: Parade Advice

2006-11-30 Thread Erin Yanish
This message is from: Erin Yanish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am not sure what kind of floats will be in the parade. One problem we had with one of our sweet appy mares was the bass drum. That thing would start up and she would not stop backing. She would keep going until she dented in

Re: Winona - stallions and numbers per pictures and more

2006-10-30 Thread Erin Yanish
This message is from: Erin Yanish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> One of the greastest memories I will have of the Winona show - is this: Nathan, Pat Wolfe's nephew was sitting on Prydarson and I was right next to him - sitting on Hostar waiting to go into the English Pleasure class - side by s

Re: Massimo saddle

2006-09-29 Thread Erin Yanish
This message is from: Erin Yanish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike and Sandy, I have not heard of that brand. The saddles we use are the Orthoflex. We absolutely love them! The same saddle will adjust iteself to any type of horse. We are able to fit the saddle on our wide withered fjo

Re: To Keep shod, or to remove!

2006-09-28 Thread Erin Yanish
This message is from: Erin Yanish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tish, My husband is a farrier here in MN. (In fact he is going to be the emergency farrier at the 25th anniversary.) He is keeping our horses shod that have been wearing them. Someone mentioned previously that they may have

Re: How you fell in love with fjords!

2006-09-12 Thread Erin Yanish
This message is from: Erin Yanish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My mother had Fjords for a while and I always enjoyed them. But truly this winter was when I fell head over heels for them. This last winter I was going through a very rough pregnancy. I was miserable 99% of the time. One

Re: Book Update (Fjords, Farms and Friends)

2006-02-16 Thread Erin Yanish
This message is from: Erin Yanish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dear Ron and Sherrie, I am just wondering if you recieved a page from Vista Ridge Farms? I tried sending it off numerous times, but we were having computer issues and I was wondering if you recieved it via e-mail? I will try s