This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And if you do miss the turn off and go into Montana on HWY 200, don't fret,
there is a very nice highway just into Montana, HWY 56 I believe, that will
bring you north to HWY 2, just between Troy and Libby, it used to be a very
nice
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I guess another angle would be, your mare is 11 years old and not getting
any younger, it may good for her to have a foal now that she is still
prime and strong if you were thinking of having one some day anyhow. Plus
it sounds like
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
She probably has not been wormed routinely, might want to feed her a week or
so before worming though so she has a little more energy, could be worms
robbing her of weight if a large infestation, but probably lack of feed was
the major
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Amy: with this height foals, how tall have the horses been ending up,
4-5 year olds? Mark
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 10:01 AM
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm not a expert on this, but it seems that a lot of our babies are
around 39 inches at birth, plus/minus a inch. Their parents are
14.1/14.2 ish, and most of ours grow up to be that same height.
How tall are the mare and stallion
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Have you tried to train either before or after they have grazed for their
2-3 hours. Our horses we feed hay in morning, then around 3 pm we let them
out for 2 hours to graze. Seems like all their minds are on from about 11
to 3 pm
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Our Stallion does this, the other 7 horses don't. Usually after he rolls or
gets up from laying down. Probably notice him doing it a few times a week.
May sit there maybe 30 seconds, sometimes more or less. Might be his
character
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A few years back I had a mare with thrush, so muddy and rainy here in
Wisconsin. Anyhow, all I did was clean out the hoof, cut out the bad
areas as much as possible so there arn't any hidden flaps in the frog
area, then spray
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Everybody. Just a update on this years foals, the mares of which are in
Montana, because we are in process of moving out there.
Last night my mother in law said she went out at 10pm to check on Jordan,
because she could tell
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A year or so ago someone sent a couple messages on video cameras.
I am looking for a inexpensive model, I have seen them on the internet,
but don't know which ones are any good.
I would like a model that has a small camera I could
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
They sell for 4.99-5.99 new, so don't pay to much on Ebay. Usually at
farm/ranch supply stores like Big-R, Farm and Fleet, Fleet Farm, and some
craft stores like Ben Franklin or Michaels. If they have the Schleich brand
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I agree with you Brigid. I got a new, fancy hoof knife this year as for some
reason I couldn't get mine sharp enough, thought it was my sharpening
techniques. When my knife was new attending the college course on hoof
trimming, it cut
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well about a year ago I mentioned foals with contracted tendons/ knuckled
over, etc.. problem we had with one of our mares. Several ideas came in as
a few others had seen or had foals with the same issue. I saw the exact same
condition
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anybody ever see their horse get fluid type sacks behind the front elbows of
their horse, both sides, about 4 inches tall extending from the arm pit rear
ward about a foot. Both sides. It is soft and fluid filled, puffy sort
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reminds me of an American TV interviewer, interviewing a Olympic swimmer
from Russia, the year the Dream Team was in the Olympics. The interviewer
asked the favored Russian Swimmer who their favorite athelete was. Thinking
they would
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Breyer has a Brown Dun,, a couple years ago they also had a Grey Dun. I
bought my wife both as christmas/birthday type occasions. I think between
$18-$25 depending on what vendor you buy from. The big regional horse shows
usually have
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I know someone that had to lower the back of their pickup. Factory axle
blocks gave a 4 inch lift, they had to go to a 2 inch lift block in the
rear because their 5th wheel had a similar problem, with very little
clearance
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I could believe their might not be many ticks in certain areas of N
Minnesota. They seem to be heavy in certain areas, and maybe 5 miles
away, there aren't any,, don't know the why of that one. Our cabin in
Gordon Wisconsin had heavy
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wondering if tadpoles would feed on the larvae?
Mark
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 8:38 PM
To: fjordhorse@angus.mystery.com
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A while back I thought someone sent a message on what hoof angles should be
on the Fjord.
I thought the front someone said between 52-54 degrees, not sure. The rear,
?
If anyone has some good numbers for front and rear could
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Not sure what you mean by a 4x4 causing the trailer to put more pressure
on the rear axles, Most Goose neck stems are adjustable in height, so
you can raise or lower the front of the trailer, depending how high your
truck is. Usually
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pulls at a persons heart strings, If I were any closer I would offer
some free hay.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gina Larson
Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 1:35 PM
To: fjordhorse
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Eileen: We had a similar problem. A couple suggestions we did. The
first is we got a Wintec girth, the one we got is sorta soft rubbery
type. Second, one of our instructors was using a rubber saddle pad they
made
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think what everyone is trying to get at,,, is to teach your horse to stand
quietly there is some training that is going to be necessary. If you read
into these posts, what they are saying is that one training method that
really works
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I beleive that means, where you see one, you will see the other. What one
does, the other also does. They chum around together all the time. You
won't see one without the other. This sort of thing.
Mark
-Original Message
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
She is a female, so naturally, must go to a man. I only bought 1 ticket,
that's all it will take. And of course the 4-H will get some much needed
funding.
Mark Skeels
This message is from: Carol J. Makosky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Janne
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do these saddles come in different width tree's ?
If so I would make sure ebay states the width or send a email and find
out.
Mark Skeels
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tamara
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK, Going to try this again, maybe I won't get jumped on this time.
We decided to worm the horses again today, got some of the wormer that is
ivermectin, plus it has another drug that also kills tape worm, as we have
heard from
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
See, Al Gore was right, Global Warming is causing all this cold.
Mark Skeels
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jean Ernest
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 1:04 PM
To: fjordhorse
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Not sure what email you are using, but Outlook has a deleted items box
you can click on and re-open deleted items until you delete the deleted
items mail box. You can even go in there and pull them back into your
main mailbox from
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This message is from: sandra church [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Someone (my vet?) mentioned they thought the compacted hay was sprayed
with something to give it a nice green appearance.
Sandra:
If it is what they use around here it is a mold
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Joel, you ought to be drwan quartered as you say it, for driving around
hilly country, or any country for that matter, with out making sure your
brakes are working;-D
Anyhow, my Fjords look like most, maybe a little on the heavy
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We have used it 3 times, 2 on mares and 1 on a foal, the foal wasn't
gaining weight, The mares wern't looking as energetic and sort of run
down, if that makes sense. The foal was growing up, but his ribs were
showing, and we couldn't
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And just because it's Sunday a little wisdom.
No harvest will come unless the seeds are planted. Planting seeds takes
time, money and effort. But in it's season, the harvest will come, and
return even up to 100 fold.
Mark Skeels
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm sorry,I don't usually talk up much, but as far as I'm concerned any
Judge that made a remark like that should be immediately, automatically,
disqualified from the event and a new non-biased Judge should be found,
ASAP, hold the show
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jean: Is this a wireless transmitter to your house and each of the
monitors, or do you have a coax cable connecting all the monitors to the
transmitter?
Mark
-Original Message-
From: Jean Gayle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gail: Just reading your message about your fuzzy picture. It is my
beleif that your camera might be just fine, but if you have $200 worth
of coax between your camera and your monitor, you must have a extremely
long coaxial run
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Told you Fjord's were better on hills than Dodge's
This Fjord does more than Sunday Drive's
I think my transmission is low on fluid
Are we there yet
How much farther
The Fjord mares are up ahead on the right
Think were being tailed
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fjord's are everywhere these days
Was that a Fjord we just passed
Watch out for that chuck hole
Was that gee or haw
Sorry, my tail pipe has a leak
Remember, you wanted Style, Fjord
I thought Fjord's were powerstrokes
This Fjord
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think you better shoot it as soon as possible or you may see some very
expensive vet bills on your horses. Especially if they have been using
your hay for a biffy. It is a disease called Equine Protozoal
Myelonencephalitis (EPM
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Monica, we have a mare that we recently had a problem with, in the end
trying to get her to eat again we had to feed her bran mash, but she too
wouldn't eat this unless we put in about equal amounts of sweet feed
with the ration, so I
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I guess all I would have to say is be sure the local paper doesn't harm
relationship between theese people and the slaughter house or paint the
slaughter house to be the bad guys, so they would shy away from
contacting us in the future
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In Wisconsin I have seen a lot of Standard Bred horses used by the Amish
with their buggy's, don't know about their work horses for plowing etc.
Mark Skeels
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't know
much about fit, but Dave on this list makes excellent harness.
Dave, per this message, who are you and do you have pictures on the web
anywhere of your harness work? Also do you have a Fjord to fit to so I
know I am
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My question is, how much of this additive is dangerous. Is one bite bad,
or is it bad over the long term?
Feeding every day for a couple years your horse will start to see
symptoms of eating this additive, or immediately?
It may
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi everyone, Have a question on a horse cart. I am trying to find one
for my wife for Christmas. I looked at a couple today, the only problem
I saw was the shaft poles were 22 and 24 inches wide through the last
couple feet of the poles
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I would count on 5 gallons plus or minus a couple gallons depending on
how much dry matter they eat.
Try to keep the water above 40 degrees, they will drink colder water but
I think they don't like to
as much.
Mark Skeels
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Original Message-
From: Arthur Rivoire [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 12:40 PM
To: fjordhorse@angus.mystery.com
Subject: Re: twenty-one questions-
This message is from: Arthur Rivoire [EMAIL
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just a reminder, it's time once again to check the floor of your horse
trailer.
I just got done replacing mine as it was rotton. Last summer I was
taking a horse to get trained and the horse went thru the floor, thank
goodness
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think the conversion is slightly off. If it is 5'1 then it would be
15.1 hands. If it is 162 cm then it is actually about 5'4 inches tall
which would be 16 hands which is very tall indeed. We do have some in
the states around 15.1
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Don't know if I am an expert, tell you my experience. We tried hand
breeding with our stallion when he was a 3 year old I think.
Unfortunately we tried the mare that won't have nothing to do with him.
He got kicked a couple times
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I guess I am of the school, you know, the one where there arn't any
stupid questions. I guess I am all confused about these colors and genes
and all that stuff. There was probably something about it in biology but
that was a long way's
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One of the mares has swollen eyes, then the swelling goes down, then may
come back. A couple people around here said their horses do the same
thing and it is due to flies, one puts on a fly hood that helps.
Just wondering what anyone
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry, I sent the previous message before I got the info in must
have a club clicker.. ;-)
I keep on hearing about club foot, what exactly is it?
I wonder because of my gelding that had contracted tendeons. Just an
update on him
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are they worth the money?
Which kind is the best? Is it even possible to ride properly while
wearing
one?
Carol 'n Patrick
Carol, I would like to reply to your question of a support belt. I have
yearly safety training
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Seems to me if anybody in the health and human services, or whatever
department, were half as concerned as they say they are about this
disease, and the suffering it can cause to animals, they would make the
vaccination affordable
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I found a good web site with a section just on horses and west nile.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/qa.htm
-Original Message-
From: Skeels, Mark A (MED)
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 7:40 PM
To: fjordhorse
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
See quite a bit of talk about West Nile. Need to know some answers.
Looked at internet. In humans it seems like it can be fairly common in
infected areas with a small chance of death. Usually fever with some
other symptoms.
What
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Today my wife looked out and our stallion LEO was scratching/rubbing his
entire underside, neck, shoulders on a very large bull thistle. Had a
trunk on it the size of a baseball bat. He finally broke it off at about
3.5 feet
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dagrun: Excuse my ignorance, could you explain in your message why it is
very rare for the stallion Fjoelestaen to be awarded 1st price at
Nordfjordeid? What is Nordfjordeid?
Thanks: Mark Skeels
This message is from: Dagrun Aarsten
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Steve: The vet did 2 injections, day 1 and 2 but didn't do a 3rd day.
I think the problem with the injections not working were 2 fold. The
first being the foal was in splints, which were restricting him from
straightening out his
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all: Just a little update. We had a filly foal Saturday morning June
1st. This foal was born straight and healthy, praise the Lord.
So it may prove to disprove the nutrition idea, however the nutrition
was different the last 4 weeks
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It got past my company's wall. Received it fine.
Mark Skeels
-Original Message-
From: Ursula Jensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 10:01 PM
To: fjordlist
Subject: Competitor Conduct
This message
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I agree with the good information.
Question about baby size. I remember the first three foals from this
mare we measured, always thought they were so tall, but they were each
39 inches. Talked to another fjord breeder at the time, his
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gail: This has not been my experience. My experience is after about a
week or two the colts are running around on their own with no problems.
No special shoes or trimming nesicary. When born they can't stand on
their toes, their feet
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Birth report: I'm not sure if its a brown or grey. At first I thought it
was grey, but this afternoon in the sun I saw some hints of light brown
hair on its fore head and top of back. Very white otherwise, no stripes
and black in main
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In case you would like to see the picture spoken of here, I have a link
to all major newspapers you can go to.
http://ajrnewslink.org/statnews.html this is the home page saved in
favorites, then select NEWS LINK, which will bring up
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You may have to be,, I went to the site and got right in, but I am a
member. A stud breeding from California is up for auction. Too far from
here though.
Mark Skeels
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think it may be one of the stages of thrush. Thrush also has a black
pasty stage. The smell is part of it. I usually carve it out with a hoof
knife and spray lysol or a thrush spray on it. I think it is mostly due
to the horses being
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One thing to note on this message, remember that the gelding can still
be fertile for a couple months after he is gelded; just in case you have
mares around you should still keep them separate for quite a while.
Mark Skeels
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Our vet said that the earlier the better; however, you probably need to
be sure both testicals have dropped, sometimes this can take over 6
months. Our last one seemed to drop and go back up, when the vet showed
up it was up
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks for the reply, I agree, my horses like to chew on each other's
necks and if I leave halters on
they get all chewed up by the other horses and of course, they use the
halter as a tug rope. I find halters
laying around in the mud
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just another possibly stupid beginners question about horses ears. It
seems like the gnats would go way down inside the horses ears, is there
ever any problem with ear disorders/infections etc from these getting in
the horses ears
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, I beleive it is SWAT, I couldn't remember the name, it is pretty
messy. Thanks, I will try to find Gnat Away.
Mark
-Original Message-
From: Karen McCarthy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 10:30 PM
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK, we have some little flies that like to hide in the horses ears, my
wife squishes them out, we put some pink salve on the ears last year,
they cluster in there. What type of flies are they and how do you keep
them out of the ears
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Caitlin: I'm a novice at this sort of thing so my advice is not
necessarily 100% fact.
I'll tell you what has done it for 1 of my horses, we started training
him...his fat has turned into a horse that looks to be in real fine
shape
This message is from: Skeels, Mark A (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mary and all,,,here's a book about my hay experience:
I have had the same experience as you here in Wisconsin. Expecially
with the first cutting, I usually have to leave the hay out on the field
a couple weeks, otherwise
78 matches
Mail list logo
