Re: Why cutting Fjord's manes ?

1999-02-10 Thread Lori Albrough
This message is from: Lori Albrough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lindsay&Jim Sweeney wrote: > ..One thing that > I have heard people say is that they sometimes wish that they could just go > ahead and cut off those giant, totally in-the-way forelocks!! No Way, that > would be too unbecoming! I have one l

Re: Why cutting Fjord's manes ?

1999-02-10 Thread Lindsay&Jim Sweeney
This message is from: Lindsay&Jim Sweeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 06:57 AM 2/4/99 -, you wrote: >This message is from: Frank Wijgers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Hello ! >> >> As an owner of a Fjord, living in Holland, I have a question and cannot >> find the answer to it. >Maybe one of you can h

Re: Why cutting Fjord's manes ?

1999-02-08 Thread Jean Gayle
This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -Original Message- From: Sessoms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, February 08, 1999 7:20 AM Subject: Re: Why cutting Fjord's manes ? >This messag

Re: Re[2]: Why cutting Fjord's manes ?

1999-02-08 Thread Jean Ernest
This message is from: Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I believe it is now thought that the Przewalski's horse is a separate species, an off-shoot from the same ancestor rather than the ancestor of our modern horses. Dr. Deb Bennett wrote a great article on the origin of horse breeds which was pub

Re[2]: Why cutting Fjord's manes ?

1999-02-08 Thread Steve McIlree
This message is from: Steve McIlree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Meredith-- Monday, February 08, 1999, you wrote: > Will the Prezwalski's horses mane grow out long if kept away from > its mates? There is a small zoo in a tiny town in Northeast Nebraska which has a Prezwalski. Last year Cynthia a

Re: Why cutting Fjord's manes ?

1999-02-08 Thread Sessoms
This message is from: Sessoms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'd seem photo's of Fjords with full manes and thought they looked cute, so I decided to grow Aagot's mane out. She has a stiff mane, not too terribly thick at the base of the ears and a cottony forelock that I treat with 'kid gloves' for fear of

RE: Why cutting Fjord's manes ?

1999-02-08 Thread Anneli Sundkvist
This message is from: Anneli Sundkvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Frank wrote: >>I need better reasons to do it as "public loves it in the parades" or "It just looks good" ! We are talking about your horse's dignity and if it feels well or not. If you cut it I think you take some function away, that wo

RE: Why cutting Fjord's manes ?

1999-02-08 Thread Frank Wijgers
This message is from: Frank Wijgers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello, Merek Geiger wrote: It just looks good and the public loves it in the parades. Why need another reason? I need better reasons to do it as "public loves it in the parades" or "It just looks good" ! We are ta

Re: Why cutting Fjord's manes ?

1999-02-04 Thread FJORDING
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It just looks good and the public loves it in the parades. Why need another reason? Check Lar's pictures in section 2 of the Fjordhorse Page in Frames. Merek Geiger

Re: Why cutting Fjord's manes ?

1999-02-04 Thread Anneli Sundkvist
This message is from: Anneli Sundkvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Frank Wijgers wrote: >> I'm just curius, why the manes of a Norwegian Fjord ar always cut till about 10 cm. It looks good, but it is not natural. For me this means the length MUST have a function in wild life nature - most obvious to kee

Why cutting Fjord's manes ?

1999-02-03 Thread Frank Wijgers
This message is from: Frank Wijgers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello ! > > As an owner of a Fjord, living in Holland, I have a question and cannot > find the answer to it. Maybe one of you can help me > I'm just curius, why the manes of a Norwegian Fjord ar always cut till > about 10 cm. It loo