Support for Gail, trainers

2000-09-04 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Please accept our condolences Gail., sounds like you did your best. Colic surgery is an option but sounds like it would have been too late for your mare. It is so hard to lose one! Hope you get that needed rest! Hey Catherine I like all

Web candy

2000-09-03 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gayle: We never have had a weekend off since we got into horses, and NEVER gone anywhere off the farm together for more than two hours since we got into breeding horses. Wow, it's a case of horse owning human to be sure. Anyway, Mik

Eye candy

2000-08-30 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Come on Gayle! Quit teasing! We all want to see eye candy too! When are you going to post a photo of your Grey beauty! Misha

Stallion guards

2000-08-11 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My stallion will go after coyotes when they come into his pen but ignores the dogs. He also stands watch over the herd, if there is a problem, he arches his neck and immediately goes to check it out. He looks pretty scarey because he is

All the web

2000-08-04 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hey Mike!!! Thanks so much for the new search engine info. I like it VERY MUCH. I am tired of those millions of ads clicking through the other guys to make loading the home page a hassle and plus most of the negines hardly have ANYTHING

Fjords for sale, and fjord wanted

2000-08-02 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hey Guys: Terri Letcher from Washington State is looking for a well broke gelding for her fourteen year old daughter for pony club. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just sold mine to girl of same age. I still have for sale, four year old mare

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2000-07-29 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hey by the way, I think it is Denis Johnson who has Fjord1 on his license plate. For fencing. Well I have to say 12 guage new zealand wire is 1000% more safe than barbed wire. Many years ago I had barbed wire on my place. My app ma

Obelisk and King and Rudaren

2000-07-08 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To answer your question Carol, when you first had Oby up for sale and he was a wealing, I looked at his photo 15 times. I thought, wow, he is something!! I wanted to buy him. I liked his legs, his shoulder, hocks and substantial rear

Anneli's color palette

2000-07-07 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Anneli that was awesome. I had so much fun reading it and was not bored at all! Some of my foals born are very dark gold, and some of them are very light almost spun honey colored. I like the light ones best in color. They are

Carole's new kids

2000-07-06 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Congrats Carole. Nice to hear you got another full brother to King and Obelisk. Of the two I really took to Obelisk and think he is a dandy stallion. Oby has a certain something I really like. You have produced some good ones!!! We had

Horsie pals

2000-06-30 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks everyone for your comments on Fjord market and letting people try out horses. I told that woman, go to your local car dealer, ask to borrow a brand new car, drive it back and forth across the country, and just generally try it o

Young stock and sales

2000-06-28 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yes I think it is harder to sell young stock. In fact, it seems to me like a heck of a lot of folks have Fjords for sale this year. Maybe we just flooded the market as it stands for right now. I have been thinking about this. it seem

Hi Sarah V

2000-06-23 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sarah could you email me privately. I lost your email address. Misha [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cruizer

2000-06-22 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Oh Lauren!!! So very sorry to hear about the amazing and wonderful Cruizer, Oh man, our hearts go out to you!!! Thank god you have kept some of his wonderful kids!! The Fjord world will feel the loss of this super stallion. Well ad

New babies

2000-06-11 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to make an announcement. We have a new filly out of Quad L's Magan, Marta, born early this am. At the same time as she was foaling. Quad L's Bree, her half sister was foaling. Both mares foaled very early. Both mares and

Location

2000-06-06 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Well okay. I thought since i was always putting my web page up that people would go there to look at the horsies. Anyway, I am in Northeastern Oregon. Web page, http://www.eoni.com/~mishamez. I am not selling every horse, just want to

Fjord Liquidation

2000-06-02 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Well not totally liquidation but I am selling off half my herd at some VERY good prices---especially to Fjord breeders or Fjord homes. I have for sale, well broke 15 year old gelding 14.2 hands but for intermediate rider, yearling g

Our prayers for Ricahrd and Susan

2000-05-19 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Oh Gosh that is a hard road you guys have had to walk lately. Please try and get some rest! I was so sad to read of your mare and foal. I hope you guys are okay as you can be and all goes well for a long long time to come. It's so h

Steel dun

2000-05-17 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Okay but we can't call the white duns white gold because that is what platinum is. So how about Titanium Dun! And I want to arrange it so that on the pedigree the words Titanium Dun appear in big block mirror letters. Is that okay

Fjord colors

2000-05-16 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Or maybe we should just get a little poetic but descriptive too. We could give them the names of metals. Golden Dun = brown dun, Silver Dun = grey dun, Copper dun = red dun, Platimum dun = white dun, brass dun = yellow dun. There. How&

Little nippers

2000-05-11 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yeah a lot of the stud colts are quite nippy. Not only that, I frequently have seen them trying to mount mares in heat, sticking their noses in those places and even making a fleh (sp) reaction even at only a few weeks old. All the ad

Fjord colors, Fjord pedigree

2000-05-11 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Actually, I used to like the really dark butterscotch pudding brown duns best, those are the colors of my stallion Jovan and my mare Christina. But I have a couple real pale brown duns now, spun honey colored, and I find I like it the ve

Fjord baby stall pedigrees

2000-05-09 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Okay I have to buy a camera to get a photo up. I dropped my camera in the river. Gosh!! The baby is cute as a button even with his new name being Grendel! My vet was mighty pleased with him, rating him 'excellent' in good ho

New colt foal

2000-05-08 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hey guys, had a new foal tonight (May 7) out of my Mare Aubrey. Mom and kid doing well. He is huge! Boy here is one for you guys, dropped haunches around noon, waxed up around six o clock, foaled at ten pm. You had better keep an eye on

Pedigree scribe

2000-05-07 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ha Karen! Okay. You know, this may seem wierd to you guys, but I already know quite a bit about Fjord ped. I just think it's fun and have this big internal filing system with it. I guess I don't worry about the ped at the sho

Downsizing

2000-05-05 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I know it's not kosher to have more than one ad per month but maybe Steve will let me get by with this because we just decided that we are getting too tired to keep up with the pace we have been. Therefore I am also offering two

Pedigrees

2000-05-04 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You know what? We don't really need the pedigree info at the show. If you take notes, you can look the horse up on the NFHR pedigree page. I have used it a lot. It's cool, it's fast and it's fun! Misha

For sale

2000-05-04 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For those of you wanting Fjords suitable for the dressage ring. I have two nice ones. I have a four year old mare that has a wonderful extention and very powerful hind quarters. She is sweet and loves people, hugs, kisses. She has a minu

Tired vets

2000-05-01 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Well Steve, I for one appreciate the effort you vets put into making sure all comes out okay for us horseowners. I was taking one of my cats into the vets the other day for a routine check and my poor vet was exhausted with helping dif

Vets

2000-04-25 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Steve I think you wrote well about changing vets. We horse owners tend to look upon you guys and gals as gods that know everything and canfix everything. Ha. One of my vets shocked me one day when we were talking about the possiblib

Your first foal

2000-04-24 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Martha--One of the best sets of books I feel are available on foaling, paturation and post partum are those by Phylis Close entitled, Blessed are the Broodmares and Blessed are the foals. I am quite suprised that ANYONE contemplating br

Photos of Erland

2000-04-24 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Peg, your stories of trying to get photos of Erland made me laugh. Yes I have seen him and he is quite magnificent. Lucky you have such good photos already. I have the worst time getting good photos, it's as if the horses know t

Riding pants

2000-04-20 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hey Gayle well that's why I ride in those Miller's jeans with the knee patches. Those darn things are pretty comfy. But then again, not very western. Who knows what they are. Okay I think I vote for Mongolian style baggy pant

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2000-04-18 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Well Gayle: Since I always wear jeans to everything, even formal events. I think the rules of no jeans are dumb. Anyway, that is what people usually wear in western classes. Slacks are whussy. Ha. Since I don't show, I can say wha

Big stride

2000-04-17 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I had to laugh at the comment, what bloodlines is the horse with the big stride. I can tell you what, the Woodlands line has big strides. take a look at Dusty on this issue of the Herald, and my stallion, his full brother, moves huge and

Geldings/mares

2000-04-12 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Personally, I like mares. I just like being around them and the particular kind of energy they have. But I ride a gelding. the reason is because I have a breeding operation and if I get a really good mare, then I am going to want to ha

Filly for sale

2000-04-02 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hey folks, I have a lovely and gorgeous filly for sale. Just need to downsize my breeding operation as I have too many horses, too little time. She is three, will be four very late summer, very sweet, very gentle and LOVES people. She i

Bye Brian--sniff

2000-03-22 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dang, well I sure will miss Brian. He has been a great Fjord horse man! Lots of info and he is just plain fun to have on the list too. Hey Ann who wants to cross breed Fjords. Well, you can do it if you want to lose your papers--no one

For sale and Markmann

2000-03-20 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yes it would be cool if there could bea general for sale page. Actually I do recommend folks go to the NFHR to check out individual farms but it takes a long time! Whatever, it would be neat but a lot of work--maybe--for Mike(?). Cathe

Web page, young horses

2000-03-15 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Catherine I got to your first page okay, but when I tried to get to your other pages, it shut my whole computer out to the C prompt. Admittedly I only have a 486 with an upgrade, but it is something to keep in mind. (Yeah I know, any on

Weanlings/yearlings

2000-03-10 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have to agree with Carol Rivoire on some of this about the young horses. I have found that sometimes older horses that have had so so training are very hard to 'undo' with bad habits. So on the one hand you have a horse that

Subfertile stallions etc

2000-03-03 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sorry to hear about your loss of foal Jane. that's not fair after all that waiting. Hope all goes well with your next foal coming and that Heidi is doing okay. RE: subfertile stallions. Yes, I agree that we don't want to b

Romulus related

2000-02-24 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For those of you who like Romulus, and yes he does have a nice head, I know of a woman who has a mare for sale that is bred to him. The mare's name is Bree and she is out of Rusten. This woman got a little over her head in taking

Nice posts

2000-02-20 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Glad you guys like the Siamese cats and thank you. They ae a hoot! I don't think I have had this much fun in years and I am really looking forward to kittens! Yes, I agree, the new siamese that look like they are made out of pipe c

Stallions

2000-02-19 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have to agree with Carole Rivoire. I seem to remember a time when she went and got a second opinion on a stallion and I think she knows what she is talking about here. Carole has raised some excellent Fjords! The other thing Vivian and

Friesians and Gayle Ware's note

2000-02-15 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hey Ingrid: Now don't go ruining my vision of Friesians as magnificent black beauties that need to be wearing emerald bridles and put coveralls on em. Ha. Gayle Ware's last post about evaluations and bread and buttered w

Okay on the Fiskars--Comment on Frisians

2000-02-13 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Okay! Thanks on the scissors Gayle. Well shoot, I always used the clippers and got my manes pretty even with them. I usually bevelled them though. I probably wil use a combo. These scissors better be pretty tough to get through Joe'

Fiskars

2000-02-11 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hey you guys. How can you cut a bunch of Fjord manes with a scissors. I get about half way through a mane and the scissors gets dull and I get blisters on my hands. I always use clippers but since I have horses in so many different ar

Greys

2000-02-10 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yes I had a problem identifying a foal color a few years ago. Though brown dun at birth, by the time he was four months old his legs, ears and muzzle were dark charcoal and his body light silver. I asked Mike, well is he a grey or bro

Knutson's Fjords

2000-02-09 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hey, cool web site! Erland is cute eh? The opening snow photo is awesome! Yeah! Makes me hope to get a grey. One of my mares, out of Rusten had a grey for her first foal. I think she should give me another one by now. Maybe this year.

Thanks to vets

2000-01-31 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Just wanted to say thanks to Steve White and Brian Jacobson for writing to the list and answering horse health issues. You guys are just too cool. Eh everyone! It's so awesome to be able to get comments and advice from these guys!

Anita and Peg

2000-01-25 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi to Anita and Peg. Thanks Anita for the story on the 13 and the horses. Yes, you know, I think the story of how it was made with the horses and riders etc would be a 1000 times more entertaining and interesting than the actual movie. I

Electric fence

2000-01-23 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> What was that now, pick a wet piece of grass and then put your tongue on the fence. Sounds kinda risky, but what the hay, I'm game. Granted our fence is a mere 7000 volts so it may sting a bit. I had those darn fence testers--the

13th warrior

2000-01-23 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Since the 13th came out on video I rented it last night. Absolutely one of the worst movies I ever saw. I can't figure out what Crichton, the director or the screenwriter were playing at anyway. What was the deal of separat

Foal trimming, aussie, electric fence

2000-01-22 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For the foals that need it I trim every four weeks. I think it makes for nice shaped feet and will help them grow straight. Also, seems to me like it just is a good reminder about feet trimming etc. Kind of a training thing. We

Alfalfa/aussie saddles

2000-01-21 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sorry I have been off the list so long. Some pretty ntense family health crises'--still going on--visitors, still here, working with horses and getting my new traditional siamese breeding stock has kept me pretty busy. I do feed an

dressage and sunfishing

2000-01-08 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Well since as far as I know, Anne Appleby is the only one on the list who has taken ANY breed of horse to Prix St. Georges, I feel that it would be wise for me to heed her comments on the topic of Fjords and dressage. I have to laugh b

Fjords and cold

1999-12-29 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Glad to have Fjords in this weather--11 degrees last night. I was kind of wondering when I was trimming manes yesterday and it seemed like my hands were freezing to the clippers. Yikes! Saw one of my foals at his new home the other da

Merry Christmas

1999-12-25 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Merry Christmas everyone from Misha and The Golden Herd!

fjordhorse@angus.mystery.com

1999-12-19 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> So sorry bout Jensina and Jonetta. I think too, they are somewhere else, livng a good life. It's always sad when any of them dies but a loss of all when a great one passes on. Steve--is the deal on the list ---either pay or have

Great lists

1999-12-17 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Been enjoying the list lately, love the dog talk and cat talk too. Hannah is a doll Mike, I am so glad she went to your home! Gail, I was at Phil's last fall. I thought Romulous was pretty super looking guy. He seemed to have too

Santas Fjord

1999-12-12 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wow Jensens! Thanks for the peek at your new one. I got such a laugh, Very cute. But golly, I am not sure how you are ging to find a home for baby with those antlers. I mean, is this some new kind of cross. What dya think Mike, is this

Pecking order

1999-12-11 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In my case I found that the mare in charge was the easiest to train and the lowest on the pole the hardest. The reason I think this is is that the lower in the pecking order horse wants to be dominant over Some One! Also, she is really g

Broke horses

1999-12-10 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Okay thanks every one for emailing your horse specs to me. I passed them on. The buyer in question seems like a really neat lady. I don't really expect a finders fee. We can leave it to the pros like Betsey. I am just whining.

Feeders on mud--another well broke horse request

1999-12-09 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hey, you can put those round barrel feeders in the pasture or dry lots. They are not that heavy. I turn them upside downa nd drag them by the cradle if I want to move them around. They are inexpensive--$10 for the barrel--say four o

Vet advice d rings

1999-12-07 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks Dr. Brian for all the great vet advice on the list. It wonderful, just fabulous that you take the time to share these things with us! Wow. Thanks. Say Meredith, about the d rings, I always ride in an all purpose saddle, I just l

Fjords eating mud

1999-12-05 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Years ago I lost a horse to colic who ate too much mud. Admitedly, for her it was a pica behaviour that was beyond the occasional lipping in the dirt. But since it was deadly serious, I would advice anyone to try and stop this behavio

Horse kissing

1999-12-04 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hey the tips of the ears are the best kissy spots. No mud, at least not usually, and they seem to like it a lot. Awww, we're just self innoculating with the dirt. Probably good for us. Hey I am making my first big no no and

Any one have well broke geldings for sale?

1999-12-01 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Folks. I have has some phone calls over the last couple of weeks about folks who are looking for well broke Fjord geldings. I passed on lots of breeders names and phone numbers. But just to be quick, does any one need a customer that

Yay for Richard, good for Cheryl

1999-11-30 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks Ceacy for letting us know how Richard is doing! My father had open heart surgery last winter and is doing very well. He is a 'doer' so it was hard for him at first but when I was there I set up a computer system for

Richard

1999-11-27 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Susan you are in our thoughts and prayers. Hopefully all goes well with Richard. Need anything? Love Misha and every one at Shota Fjords.

Early stallions

1999-11-23 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> As I mentioned before, I am doing several articles on some early NA import horses. I am looking for more complete information on: Ask, Stolmann, Sanko, Solvfast, Buck (he was bred in US but want the info anyway) and Gjestar. Any one

Ruten line

1999-11-16 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hey, for any of you that love the Rusten line, as I do, I do have a lovely quiet, sweet '99 filly for sale that is a grand-daughter of Rusten. She has a gorgeous dished face and a big kind eye, nice shoulder, hocks, nice sloping pas

Pedigree lines

1999-11-03 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Guys: All this talk about bloodlines has caused a few folks to ask me to write articles on some of the early NA bloodlines in NA for the Fjord Herald. So would any of you that know--have photos, and information, please send the in

Stallions and energetic horses

1999-10-31 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nice post Gayle--except, are you trying to make Anne Appleby and me feel guilty because we have full brothers to horses that have already 'made it?' Ha. Well, I might have bought a different line if I had known it was an issue

Great list

1999-10-29 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wow, the list is cool. Loved Patty's horsemanship tips--hilarious, and also the story of the arab show--the one who won the cart class was the one who didn't crash into any one or anything. I too think Arabs are gorgeous and my

Rhythm

1999-10-28 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Some of you asked me how Ingmar is doing with his clinic and I thought I would share this. I already said that Ingmar was very chargey and very peppy in a group lesson situation. No matter how calm and quiet and light he is at home,

Natural Horsemanship--Why bother?

1999-10-27 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Let me tell you a little story as to why I like natural horsemanship. Almost every day, for at least 12 hours a day, I am totally alone with my herd of horses. There isn't going to be any body coming by, or calling or wondering w

Off the wall

1999-10-27 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Well I suppose the things I write are off the wall from the normal way of doing things. But that is what I think, individuality and creativity are what makes the universe tick. What I was trying to say is: good trainers who are succ

NHorsemanship and lungeing

1999-10-26 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I think that most NH trainers aren't against lungeing per se, but they do say that endless lunging in circles is often counterproductive in that the horse tends to tune the trainer out and just kind of blankly run or trot in ci

Drive

1999-10-16 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks Jean for telling me about the video. I think it is the one. I remember some kind of wreck on there at a CDE event with a four up of leopard appalooses. Oh--those were Lippazans not Orlov trotters? It probably was wishful memory.

Bill Long etc

1999-10-15 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I once saw a video on training for CDE that featured Bill Long, an elderly American woman who was using some QH and a guy from England who drove a four in hand of Orlov trotters. It was all amazing but I must say I was extremely impres

Racing stripes

1999-10-14 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Okay Ladies, Alex, Gayle, Karen and Anne, all of you who encouraged me to trace clip my horse and who are now yucking it up behind my back. What you didn't add was the warning label. "Please note, trace clipping an already pe

Super Fjords

1999-10-12 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks Mike for the time and energy you are going to take to put that page on the great Fjord athletes up. I would LOVE to have it as a flyer. It's one thing for me to sit there and say, "Yeah, this one lady has her Fjord at

NH training

1999-10-12 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks Karen. I always check out the new trainers if I can. I will check out the Mary guy. I am also one who is a stickler about safety, in fact, when I watch some new technique with horses, on the of the first things I ask is: Can I ge

Parelli training

1999-10-11 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Well I am sure not cultish about it, but I like methods that work and I have had a lot of success with it. As you can see by my web page, I am riding my stallion with just a string--if I could not control my horse do you think i wo

Parelli training for Fjords

1999-10-10 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If you check out our web page, http://www.eoni.com/~mishamez, you can see a lot of Fjords with Parelli training on them. In some I am riding my stallion using only a small string. He remains very light and responsive to it. Most of my

Trace clipping

1999-10-09 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Okay guys, Ingmar is clipped. Thank you for every one's advice. We rode in the arena at top speed, he didn't get too hot and towel dried quickly. I am a happy gal. Ingmar is a happy boy. He was much more peppy with the new hair

Trace clipping and Athletic Fjords

1999-10-08 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks Martie and Karen for your comments on trace clipping. Gues I'll take the plunge. I like the masking tape idea, or my horse would be naked as I tried to even it out. Ha. My friend Alex is going to do her dressage Fjord too so

Fjord colors and trace clipping

1999-10-07 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Any one out there ever trace clip a Fjord for winter work out?If you do will the hair grow back during the winter or not? If you do, do you blanket the horse too? I feel sorry for my gelding when we are working in the arena at night rig

Ridging versus cleaning

1999-10-03 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ha Gayle: Liked your comment about house cleaning. I hate being indoors anyway, makes me feel claustrophobic. Since we are having such a drought the dust is so hideous. You feel pretty pointless cleaning. Every wrinkle in your jeans bec

Vit C

1999-10-01 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks Gayle for the great post! Hope it works for Rustensen Peg, he is in our thoughts--you too. We have been worried here. Gayle these are the kind of posts that make the list so important to me. Tell us more about the C, how you g

Temperature swings

1999-09-28 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If any one wants to know how fjords handle extreme temp swings ask me. Last week we had record highs--still in the 90's after weeks of it, no rain to speak of for months and heavy dust. Last night we had a record low--20. Every o

BOD

1999-09-25 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have to agree with Dave Stewart and say that I feel that the BOD members are doing great. I have always found them to be open, accessible, helpful, intelligent, kind, honest, fair, and caring people that are deeply concerned with

Jensen's driving story and John Arthur story

1999-09-23 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks Ursula for sharing that story with us. Well written too. I wish I had been there watching but just reading it was tying me up in knots for you guys. Ha. Wow, what a team and what an effort to get there. You guys are simply amazing

The phantom meanace?

1999-09-20 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On the lighter side of Fjord ownership. I had a buddy visiting from San Francisco. He was going out to feed some apple slices to the horses and he came back in with a worried expression. "Ingmar bared his teeth at me," he says.

Fjord sensitive trainers

1999-09-20 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi: I was curious about people who are working with Fjord sensitive trainers. I think Fjords are a little different, maybe smarter, than most horses. While remaining outwardly calm, sometimes they are inwardly sensitive, and by '

Hurricanes, Libby, worming

1999-09-19 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks Carolyn for writing to the list and letting us know what happened or didn't happen with your horses. For the few days leading Floyd, you were the concerned talk of our household and our prayers were with you. I was at Libby

Libby

1999-09-15 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yes it was a nice show this year, perfect weather, as usual, too many yellowjackets but lots of great looking yellow horses. It was fun to see all those good stallions in one place at the same time. I have been admiring Dusty, Erla

Thinking of Sarah

1999-09-01 Thread misha nogha
This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Oh Sarah, I was so sad to hear of your loss. Our hearts go out to you here. I am glad she had a good life with you to love her. Sending you a prayer. Misha

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