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OOPsyou do have a slightly more difficult problem. Borrow a tame turkey
and put it in a cage maybe? You can click her whenever she stops and faces
them...essentially John Lyons' spook in place lessons.
At 07:30 PM 1/13/2001 +, you
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Yessireeclicker training works. The other day we took our two problem
wormers (not the Fjords...they smack their lips over the nasty white paste)
out for a quickie course in loving worming tubes. We were in a
hurryreally needed
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Well,,,I may have just found a way to expand my addiction to purchasing tack
to health care products. A few of you know that I spent my Christmas
vacation putting my Mom in assisted living. One of the small benefits of
this was a disability
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You might be surprised what your vet has learned from reading articles only.
Vet school (or medical school, for that matter) does not necessarily provide
hands on training for all procedures. My former father-in-law was an
orthopedic surgeon
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I WOULD forget to cut the old message on a post directed in reply to the
list owner's spouse! Sorry.
Gail Russell
Forestville CA
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my messages to you keep bouncing back. Need the info to make the plege,
your pay pal account, how to set one up...etc.
BTW, the pledge drive has hit its goal due to several very generous
pledges. However, I'm waiting for a few more
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If left untouched, does his tail twistsorta like the old fashioned rag
curls? At 11:13 AM 12/7/2000 -0600, you wrote:
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All this talk about tails has me puzzled. I can always
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and is selling him for less than a thousand. Anyone out there have ANY
experience with Clydes??? Apart for their majestic look, and of course the
bud commercials I know nothing about temprament etc. Any info would be
appreciated.
My
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Cheryl, This is what you sent when Luisa died. It was very much
appreciated. I saved all the messages...with the intent of replying to
allbut life goes on and is crazy. My office floor is completely
littered, and the desk between one
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At 07:49 PM 11/15/2000 GMT, you wrote:
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Yes, I
have had my share of runaways, and no, I will not run them out on purpose
(i.e. encourage them to keep on going 'til they tire).
I
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I agree. However Jack's method of going with Rafael's flow seems to work
well. Rafael settles down right away when Jack talks to him in a calm yet
firm manner. Also, what Jack calls a gallop is really a fast trot/canter. Now
when we first
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Hey Gail ! Did you go to the Turlock Draft Horse sale and auction last
weekend ? Couldnt get there this year myself. Still shaking my head over
the year we sat next to you, as you quietly bid on your Drafter
guyWhoodini
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Just wanted to say how valuable photos of riding can be. Several pictures
were taken of myself Tommes in Turlock, and I noticed something... I'm
always looking down!
A good rider I know always looks like her eyes have a death grip
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There's snow on the mountain tops and you can feel it in the air, think it
makes them extra hungry even though they're in great shape.. in fact some
shapes are too great =)) Hope you have a mild winter
The second it gets cold around here
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Fjord Tough
How about the Ford Company - I know this is a bad time for them - well, maybe
they are in need of some good public advertising. - ..The Ford Fjord
Nationals...someone say that three times!
Gail Russell
Forestville CA
[EMAIL
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Here are the cannon bone measurements of some of the Dutch stallions (sorry
no weights), taken from het fjordenpaard magazine (1 inch = 2.54 cm):
The average seems to be around 19.5 cm (7 3/4 inches).
Lori Albrough
Moorefield Ontario
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Hi all,
Someone sent me some suggestions for a little extra tour while in
Cincinnati OH auditing the evaluation training. Unfortunately, I appear to
have accidentally deleted it from my computer. If the sender still has it
on her (his
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Well, I have reserved my auditing spot at the Evaluation Training Seminar
in Cincinatti for the Nov 11-12 weekend. Now have to make hotel
reservations and air flight reservations. Soanyone want to share a
room? Any sights (Fjord
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I've kept pigs in with a single electric wire (needs to be hot though)
strung low to the ground. You have to watch for grounding out...in snow it
becomes more difficultbut they will not go through it. Used to keep
cows, young bulls
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Is it possible to put a little..uh...social pressure (gentle, of course)
on those who have not sent in their pictures? :) It would certainly make a
much better record book if we could have them in the book.
I was very surprised to read
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At 05:53 AM 9/27/2000 -0600, you wrote:
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At 09:33 PM 09/26/2000 -0300, you wrote:
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On
the subject of tying, has anyone ever snapped a halter
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At 06:42 PM 9/26/2000 -0800, you wrote:
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Check out the CD-L archives for easyboots. A lot of the drivers use them
http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/Archives/cd-l.html
Marsha Jo Hannah has
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Well, I meant my matchmaking attempt to go privately, but maybe the public
broadcast will yield a number of interesting proposals.
Right now, trying to clear off my desk. Valley vet sent me pictures of the
Side Step stirrup. Incredibly
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Hi Everyone-
Well, we're not virgins anymore... myself, partner Jack, ... I
drove the 120 miles to Turlock from Half Moon Bay, CA,
Hi Brigid,
I met you last year at Turlock. Did not go this year.
Hey
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.
But now he's really shedding, his face and legs particularly, and I'll be
darned if he doesn't look half red and half grey. His nose is very grey,
and his legs from top to bottom are definitly grey with extravagant black
stripes, but his
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I may have that book used, if you have not bought it yet. I need to clean
closets!At 06:58 PM 9/19/2000 -0400, you wrote:
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Hi,
Thanks to everyone for your comments on how to pick a safe
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So, mortality insurance is a lousy deal if the horse doesn't die on the
first round It would be interesting to know how often this happens.
Must be a similar danger with founder. When I get some time I may look into
it, but the cons
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At 10:49 AM 9/12/2000 -0700, you wrote:
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Gail, once a horse has a history of colic, no matter how light,most
insurance companies will not insure.
But can they yank it if you buy it before
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thank goodness for the tendose liquid wormer for horses from
the vet or the cost would be terrible.
What is that?
Gail Russell
Forestville CA
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/steve wrote: It's just a matter of figuring out what's causing
the pain and treating it accordingly (which isn't always easy).
Got home and looked up colic and digestive tract anatomy in my Veterinary
Notes for Horses. This book is probably
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At 01:05 PM 9/7/2000 -0500, you wrote:
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I get the idea that rolling is
NOT the cause of a twist, that it is a hyperactivity of the bowel itself
that causes it to twist
This is why parasite control
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Hi Steve,
Thanks for the response. I understand that you are trying to keep me from
imparting misinformation to the list...and appreciate that. I know that I
don't have a good grasp of how all this works, but I sure would like to
understand
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I am writing this to try to save some less-experienced Fjord owners like me
the horror I just went through. I just finished talking to a friend of
mine who hauls horses all the time. She led me to the belief that I could
have prevented
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Thanks Steve,
It helps to hear that there was probably nothing to be done. I was beating
myself up for not remembering the story about Chip Lamb's horse that
colicked and died...possibly because no one understood how bad it was due
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HOrse just died after valiant effort on her part. VEt does horses, but
just not very good.
Well, it looks like maybe there was nothing anyone could have done. We
autopsied her. Turns out her colon was displaced, just past stomach. Vet
says
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HOrse just died after valiant effort on her part. VEt does horses, but just
not very good. We might have saved her had we tubed her when he came at
first (and told us she did not need it).
Thank goodness she is no longer suffering. Vet
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Whatever you do, don't open them! Throw them away NOW!
It's funny but I think we have boxes from when we moved here that still aren't
unpacked!
Mark
Gail Russell
Forestville CA
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I could go on and on about this - but will offer only two thoughts for now.
1) Distinguish between treats - in the handing out candy to the begging
little darlings sense, and wage pay treats that are used in clicker
training. One
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Jim just called me out to look at his QH. His right eye is swollen, but
with NO discharge and no evidence of injury at all. The lid - top and (I
believe) bottom is swollen, and the eye is sort of partially closed. He
looks sleepy in that eye
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If it is boredom, try clicker training.
I've recently discovered that clicker training works much better if I
deliberately train away the mugging behavior. When I do that, I get
incredible willingness and softness. My stallion (after VERY
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Also did anyone ever hear tell of hooking the
snap in a side halter ring as opposed to under the chin? This method was
mentioned to me by an Appaloosa breeder friend of mine. I am used to
ordinary horses that lack the busy brain activities
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Well, time for my question: my gelding Cider has a pretty short and
silly-looking forelock. On the other hand, he has a thick mane and a
lovely tail. Does anyone know a trick to make the forelock grow longer?
You might try eliminating
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Thanks Karen, for the explanation. Perhaps you can clarify further:
And what are your seat bones doing during all this? The one time I got a
really good turn on the *forehand* was when I reached down with my inside
leg - put my weight down
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Is anyone else missing the new Herald? I think I renewed my membership on
time last spring. I know the Spring Herald was late in getting to me, but
it seems that this has been a couple weeks now. It is actually fairly
important sometimes
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Do you have pipe panels that she is reaching through to get grass? Or fence
boards she is reaching through. They usually reach through with their heads
tilted the same way every time. Mine all have grey pipe panel goo on one
side
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Since I am one of the procrastinators, I thought it would be helpful to give
listers a quick route to the Order Form. Use the URL that follows, then
look at the lower right hand corner of the page (just above the articles on
AI) and open
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At 04:26 PM 6/11/2000 -0800, you wrote:
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jane don't you have Romulus? This baby out of Bree, which is owned by my
pal, is by Romulus and is a dandy, real pretty head etc. i have a jpg of
him
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She felt it was valid and valuable but that
too much shouldn't be done too soon. She has seen an increase in mares
rejecting their foals as imprinting has become more common. She said that
the first hour or two is extremely important
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Another thing that Fjords do which
is 'mule-like' is LEAN on you/try to push you around
with their shoulder. If you use commonly accepted
'mule methods' to conteract this, it works like a
charm. I know, I've tried it.
And what would
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Then
they were in a herd so that the next time they were approached they were
one year old. ALL of them were equally timid. They just simply forget if
the contact is not frequent.
Timid? Is there such a thing as a timid Fjord foal? Odin
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I understand what you mean by the the reach at front not being all of
it. Gunthar has tremendous reach - I believe it is his shoulder
conformation that allows him to get the point of his knee a LONG way
forward. But this does not mean he
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Eike, thank you for addressing this topic, which is near and dear to my
heart. A couple other comments - which I hope will elicit comment/argument. :)
At 11:22 PM 5/13/2000 +0200, you wrote:
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I know what you mean, Jean. I am partial to the more athletic Fjords, so
have gotten used to the look of Fjords with a little less substance - but,
as my partner put it, one of those stallions looked like a snake. We
weren't sure whether
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At 04:47 PM 5/10/2000 -0400, you wrote:
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Kviten is listed in the Norwegian Studbook as being Ulsblakk. I have not
seen the term kvit used to describe color in Norway.
Is it possible
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I posted a while back about my now-yearling colt who I thought was grey, but
he did not match the descriptions I have always had of grey babies - in that
his back stripe is definitely a sort of rosy brown and his leg markings are
the same. I
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What about aiming toward a kind of benched Fjord show where exhibitors
would be encouraged to post pedigrees on their stalls (possibly obtained
from the show office via an onsite computer and printer)?
Also, posting of the names of other
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Hi Kathy,
Ragnar is not coming - and I am frantically looking for the address of the
Days Inn I'm supposed to go to - I think I threw away (or filed very
carefully - too carefully) the directions and address because I was going to
Pearsons
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Am I ever red! Sorry. Thought Jean's post to me was private when I replied!
Gail Russell
Forestville CA
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I did get some nice footage for the video we're
putting together to send out to prospective brides.
Bye, Peg Knutsen http://www.eburg.com/~kffjord/
OK here. I never intended to own a video camera. Never wanted videos of my
children
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Are you using pellet bedding - or woodstove pellets? Is there a difference?
At 05:40 PM 4/22/2000 -0700, you wrote:
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Patty and everyone else,
I just made the switch to pellet bedding
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Hmm - At one time I knew the vet situation on Salt Spring Island - where the
Voorheove's were trying to use frozen semen. Cattle insemination was done
by a friend of mine - not the vet. The vet there has to be a complete jack
of all trades
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Hey CAtherine/all,
Is frozen semen that big a boon? The reading I've done on the Net and
stories from Fjord people essentially describe it as a sort of cruel joke -
that the ugly truth is that (and I exaggerate here) no mare has ever
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OOPs - did this after a LONG day in the sun. Trying to get it out by the
close of business. Well, - maybe it will net me a roommate - of either
gender. :)
Gail Russell
Forestville CA
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Clicker List Web Site : http
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Hi Kathleen,
I *think* I need to make a reservation for a single. Don't mind sharing a
room with a female - or male either for that matter as long as there are two
beds- I'm too old to care at this point. Only glitch is I ma still awaiting
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At 08:59 AM 3/23/2000 PST, you wrote:
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Debby:
BUT , how may TB are NOT good horses in terms of temperment or have bad bone
and otherwise would be a suitable horse to compete
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Hi Catherine,
Sad and good news about Markmann. Looking forward to having to contain a
young horse for two months doesn't sound like fun for anyone, him or you.
But maybe he'll be OK.
Should we be sending him stall toys? Somehow, I feel
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A small drip irrigation dripper(s) near the ground rod would help. Try
looking at the electrobraid installation manual (online). Seems to me they
have alternative grounding suggestions - including using more than one rod.
You can ground
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Promised I'd post again for the list. It is cut off at the end due to a bit
of a disaster in my computer. Can't find the last sentence or so. I
suppose it is in the archives.
While I am at it, Karen, how heavy should the whole apparatus
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I wondered about the sharp edges in a round pen. Though of buying the foam
pipe insulation to wrap around them. Couldn't the side of the post take the
skin right off the cannon bones?
At 06:02 PM 3/19/2000 -0700, you wrote:
This message
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See below - taken from http://members.aol.com/brayhaven/bj2.htm, stating
that some Fjords have 65 chromosomes and why that might be so.
You've all heard that mules can't reproduce because they're not all there.
Or maybe you've
heard
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Sleepy's saddle is very
comfortable for me; Rom's saddle doesn't quite fit my husband right.
Maybe your husband doesn't like it.
Gail Russell
Forestville CA
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This would have been the forget to paste the address in method. Sorry again.
Gail Russell
Forestville CA
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Clicker List Web Site : http://clickryder.cjb.net
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Remind me, if we manage to see you, to ask you to show Amy the Norwegian
Saddle. I think it might make a good endurance saddle for wide backed arabs.
She runs a used tack shop - with some new, and might be interested in seeing it.
Gail Russell
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Karen and I keep returning messages that we believe have been sent
privately, then find they were sent from the list accidentally. Ah, well.
There are a multitude of ways to goof and send things to the list
inadvertently. I've tried almost
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I'm trying to envision. Sort of like grabbing the upper jaw, with fingers
pointing UP - on the upper lip/muzzle, and the pad part of the thumb on the
roof of the mouth?
At 07:04 PM 3/8/2000 -0800, you wrote:
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do. A little goes a long way
Karen knows a zillion percent more than me. But watching the finals in team
penning in Albuquerque, the good ones don't do it that way. It's a lot
more cerebral than physical sometimes -- thinking ahead
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Hi Karen,
Have been to two team penning competitions. One, the times were pretty fast
(at the Sonoma Fairgrounds) things were fast and wild. At the Lakeview
Oregon Rodeo (real cow country) the times seemed slow but winners were
usually
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I can just see the free for all when Gunthar and I out go out to catch the
quarterback so we can use his (her?) thigh to stretch a bosal to fit
Gunthar's schnozola. :)
At 10:10 PM 3/6/00 PST, you wrote:
This message is from: Karen McCarthy
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At 06:53 PM 3/3/00 -0800, you wrote:
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Karen,'
Consider two of your clinic spaces GONE! Jim and I are coming. We will
d
Oops. I really, really did try to send this privately. Copied
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Karen,'
Consider two of your clinic spaces GONE! Jim and I are coming. We will
drive on Thursday - be there until Tuesday, if I remember correctly. Ok, I
hope. Matt was going to send me a JPEG of his flyer so I could circumvent
AOL's
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Hi all - and particularly Karen McCarthy,
I decided I need to get a bosal made for Gunthar - maybe more than one
(different thicknesses). His nose is too big for the tack shop versions. I
tried the number I got from Karen (off the list) some
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Hi all,
Amy and I are taking a horse trailer from Sonoma County to Myrtle Creek
Oregon on the 12th of March. Three horse, slant load, gooseneck - nice
ride. Empty on the way up.
Ditto - on the way to the Jensen's to pick up Romulus
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Hi all,
This is definitely off topic - but thought there might be a match on the list.
I received a call from a friend of an old friend the other evening. The
call was from a San Francisco lawyer who, whenever he has a mid-life crisis
(he
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This one is a hoax. IF you enter the name of a purported virus in a search
engine, chances are you will find it on Symantec's virus site - with info as
to whether it is a virus or not. See
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data
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Hi all,
Previous post included the wrong remarks from Anita - about nice heads
coming from Ola Gik - included them in this corrected post so all info is in
one spot. Sorry.
Saw Anita's note (see below) about nice heads coming from Ola Gik
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Hi all,
Saw Anita's note (see below) about nice heads coming from Ola Gik. Thought
it might help to confirm that he was a source of nice heads to know that
Romulus has a nice head, AND Ola Gik is both his maternal and paternal great
grandsire
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His Lisa,
My goal is to 1) determine he is stallion material and then, AFTER THAT 2)
determine if his bloodlines are needed. If he is brown dun, there is
certainly an argument that his bloodlines are already well represented in
this area
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The Unrau's daughter made me aware of Roy Yates - reining horse trainer -
has a serious horsemanship school. I got some information about his western
saddles. Described as western dressage. NOt cheap - looks good. Anita -
doesn't Sam have
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Hi all,
Finally, as a public statement of my committment to the Evaluation of
Fjords, we are going to have both of our stallions evaluated; And if the
esteemed Fjord judges say that one or the other does not pass muster as a
stallion, I
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I will ask at the local tack shop. Most Aussie saddles that I've seen are
for narrower horses - though I'm told the Austrailian stock saddle company
now makes wider ones. Will ask Amy (my tack shop manager/ horse trainer
friend) if she knows
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Hi Gayle,
Tell us more about the Colo evaluator training. If there were home
breeders who wanted the same type of training (the kind who buy stallions
on impulse - that could have a big effect on the breed :)) could they go?
Would there any
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Joel,
I really enjoy having you around. Not invisible to me!
Only breeding to fjords, now accepting bookings. (Sorry, that was the
shameless commerce division's input)
Joel Harman
Gail Russell
Forestville CA
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Clicker List
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Hi Mike,
Thanks for your advice on the grey. Odin's muzzle is grey - so maybe he is
a grey.
As to his conformation, I didn't mention it, but we are looking at his
conformation. I would be tarred and feathered (gently, of course) by
various
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I am trying to figure out whether Odin is grey dun or not. He has so much
brown on him right now, that I wonder. His nose is chocolate brown/grey,
has grey eyebrow marks (little question marks), his dorsal stripe is like a
chocolate Lab
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Hi Jean,
Are you sure that you are not compromising the utility of the safety
stirrups by putting the rubber band on the inboard side? I was taught to
put the rubber band on the outside. Changes the tilt of the stirrup to put
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Sini, Thanks for this - really interesting!
According to these researchers and trainers most of the biting and
kicking happens between members who are almost equal in the hierarchy.
(For them it's often useful to quarrel as winning gives you
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Thanks for the reminder about stallion behavior Gayle. I need all the help
I can get!
I wasn't actually the Gail with the farrier-disciplined filly - that is
Gail Dorine in NM. The Gail who purchased Romulus and has him at Brian and
Ursula
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Thanks for the compliment - it was a labor of love for my Fjordy friends.
But wait! We forgot, don't drive over field - even if the pipes are deep
enough not to be crushed, the compaction of the soil causes problems:).
At 05:51 PM 2/5/2000
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I think the problem would be that you would have to put so much salt on that
it would essentially poison the surrounding areas if you relied on this over
time.
I understand the concern about chemicals - have never used them myself - but
I've
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In a previous life I was positively OBSESSED with septic tanks. In fact,
did a bit of travel in the Gulf Islands of B.C., lecturing in rural areas on
how to maintain healthy septic systems so as to forestall the need to put in
expensive sewers
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