Re: Fjords preferring Fjords

1998-07-12 Thread Mike May
This message is from: Mike May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 11:03 AM 6/30/98 -0800, you wrote: >This message is from: Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Jean in Hot and muggy Fairbanks, Alaska (85 degrees and 93% humidity: don't >laugh, those of you in 100 degrees, it still feels hot to me!) > Hey yo

Re: Fjords preferring Fjords

1998-07-01 Thread wcoli
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian, We also have an 8 y.o. gelding who is dominant to other mares/geldings. He is the one who gets to decide which wafer of hay he wants even if someone else was eating it first. The only ones he does not dominate are his dam, an 18 year old br

heat, fjords preferring fjords

1998-06-30 Thread SSlotness
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I remarked to Pedfjords the other day that it was hot here too. Today it was also hot. But somewhat like the Alaskans, hot turned out to be 74 degrees!!! I couldn't believe it. It seemed almost like 90 degrees. We are in N. Minnesota. I think I'll be uncomfo

Re: Fjords preferring Fjords

1998-06-30 Thread Marsha Jo Hannah
This message is from: Marsha Jo Hannah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > saskia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Another problem is that Kitty prefers Sybren to Janosch. So she (the > highest) lets Sybren (the lowest) eat near her, This also happens in my herd. Nansy (29-year-old mare, ranking Fjord) will let

Re: Fjords preferring Fjords

1998-06-30 Thread saskia
This message is from: saskia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Then when we were riding in the outdoor >ring she suddenly became very excited as two horses came down the road, >back from a trailride. she winnied like she'd seen a long lost friend: It >was a fjord mare that she'd never ever met before, but sh

Re: Fjords preferring Fjords

1998-06-30 Thread saskia
This message is from: saskia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Marsha Jo Hannah wrote: >This message is from: Marsha Jo Hannah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BRIAN C JACOBSEN) wrote: >> >> A large 8-y-o Fjord gelding who was top dog of the 20 Fjords we had >> at the time [...] was loaned to a near

Re: Fjords preferring Fjords

1998-06-30 Thread Jean Ernest
This message is from: Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Several years ago I had my mare Stella at a TTeam and Centered Riding Clinic held at a boarding stable. We had been there a couple days and Stella much preferred to stand in the trailer with her head out the feed door to watch the goings on ra

Re: Fjords preferring Fjords

1998-06-30 Thread Marsha Jo Hannah
This message is from: Marsha Jo Hannah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BRIAN C JACOBSEN) wrote: > > A large 8-y-o Fjord gelding who was top dog of the 20 Fjords we had > at the time [...] was loaned to a nearby friend who had two horses. > There, our gelding was low man on the totem pole.

Fjords preferring Fjords

1998-06-29 Thread BRIAN C JACOBSEN
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BRIAN C JACOBSEN) In response to Anneli's question about Fjords preferring each other's company when in with horses of other breeds, I have seen this also. In two instances when one Fjord was in a herd of horses of other breeds, and another Fjord was intr