This message is from: Phillip Odden <n...@norskwoodworks.com>
Hello folks from Phillip Odden in Northwestern Wisconsin where spring
has sprung, most of my horses are out to pasture ( except the ones who
are too fat and shouldn't be eating lush green grass ) and training
for show season is in full swing.
So as it turns out I too am getting a little age on me. Got to face
the fact that I will be turning 60 in a few days. But I have been
planning for that and for the years to come. The plan was always to
get the best mares and stallion I could find and breed the best Fjords
possible for my purposes. I like to do a little of everything here on
our farm from trail riding to light draft work and especially Pleasure
driving and Combined Driving Events. And I like to take my horses Elk
hunting in the high mountains from time to time. We live on a farm
where we are able to keep several horses quite easily. The plan was
always to breed some good horses and learn to train them to accomplish
my passions with horses. Part of the deal was to have some young
horses at this stage of my life to carry me through the rest of my
life. Now I have 5 or 6 wonderful young horses bred just the way I
want them, or at least I think I do. So now I plan to prove to myself
if they are as I think they are and compete them and ride them and ask
them to do all the things I like to do with my ponies here on the farm.
The math works out pretty good so that with me at age 60 and my
youngsters from age 2 to 7 I should have more horse than I can handle
in the next 20 years. Eventually I will probably just sit and watch
and hopefully listen to them eat if everything works out. But I expect
they will help to keep me going too.
The sad part is that I feel I should sell my better trained veteran
horses and probably my breeding stock sinse that is what the game plan
calls for. It isn't easy letting go but I am selling a few horses
steadily now.
As for growing old, one shouldn't get too old without visiting the
homeland of the Norwegian Fjord Horse, Norway. Just so happens that
our 2012 Odden's Rural Life Traditions to Norway has two more seats
left with 26 travelers on board and a max of 28. The itinerary for our
tour along with prices and our horse sales list can be found on our
website Norskwoodworks.com Next year we will be offering a tour to
a different part of Norway and Sweden combined.
All the Best,
Phil Odden
PS. Just as I am pushing the send button Else informs me that our red
dun mare Eirosa has given birth to a healthy brown dun filly sired by
our gray stallion Smedsmo. This combination Eirose X Smedsmo has
produced some very good offspring.
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