Re: ugly stages

2007-03-03 Thread kate charboneau
This message is from: kate charboneau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Linda,  I agree, time will improve things. Fredlet was looking better, well, less bad anyway, this morning, so I measured him.  He's only downhill by 1 now, so this just has to be about growthiness. I found a zillion internet pictures of

Re: ugly stages/now training for mounting

2007-02-28 Thread Cherie Mascis
This message is from: Cherie Mascis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kate, if you're worried he may get too tall for you, try some trick training and train him to lay or kneel down for you to mount! I have my 2 1/2 year old Fjord filly bowing pretty well. I had a welsh/Arabian that I used to run trail

RE: ugly stages

2007-02-28 Thread kate charboneau
This message is from: kate charboneau [EMAIL PROTECTED] You guys are really great.  :) 15 hands is what my magic string test tells me.  I take a piece of baling twine and stretch it from the point of his elbow to the point of his pastern, uh, fetlock, uh, that pointy point above his, you know,

Re: ugly stages

2007-02-28 Thread Linda Lottie User
This message is from: Linda Lottie User [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kate.my daughter and I took our gelding and our mare and foal to an open show to get experience for the fjord show. Like you mentionedwe were with about 20 quarterhorses in a halter class.and nice ones at that! The judge

Re: ugly stages

2007-02-27 Thread Sarah Clarke
This message is from: Sarah Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had always heard the saying they only look good at 3 days, 3 months and 3 years. But I did have one fast growing colt (warmblood) who reached 17 hands and he didn't really have all his peices pulled together until he was almost 5.

Re: ugly stages

2007-02-27 Thread Lois Anne Starr
This message is from: Lois Anne Starr [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've been noticing how un-together my 3 year old gelding looks. I thought at 3 he'd be starting to come together, not fall apart worse!! Kate Fred ...who will stay mine even if he stays ugly, cuz he sure is sweet! hi Kate: Don't

Re: ugly stages

2007-02-27 Thread Jean Ernest
This message is from: Jean Ernest [EMAIL PROTECTED] My big gelding BJorken, is 15-2hh and he didn't stop growing until 8 years old. His dam, Stella, has a beautiful head, somewhat dished, not too big, and when he was a baby he had a head just like hers, . Then about 2 1/2 I suddenly noticed

Re: Ugly stages

2007-02-27 Thread Emily Wigley
This message is from: Emily Wigley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, indeed: 3 hours, 3 days, 3 months and their 3rd birthday they look grand in between and for a good while after they can be so goofy looking! Your fjord will get his parts in alignment -- hang in there! And as for the weak

Re: ugly stages

2007-02-27 Thread jgayle
This message is from: jgayle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kate, how tall is your boy expected to be? My 17 2 1/2 Trakehner was the gawkiest and most embarrassing creature until he was about six. He usually looked starved altho he had food all day. Hip high one time and hip low the next. Huge head

RE: ugly stages

2007-02-27 Thread Jean Ernest
This message is from: Jean Ernest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kate, if you're worried he may get too tall for you, try some trick training and train him to lay or kneel down for you to mount! Fun things to do with him before you train him to ride. Go to Allen Pogue's website for the DVD's, great

Re: ugly stages

2007-02-27 Thread Lola Lahr
This message is from: Lola Lahr [EMAIL PROTECTED] What a great idea! I actually had been thinking of doing just that with with one of my horse who is just too darned tall (16hh) for me to mount from the ground, which is not so good when you're out on the trail and you just have to get off for

ugly stages

2007-02-26 Thread kate charboneau
This message is from: kate charboneau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Howdy List, I've been noticing how un-together my 3 year old gelding looks.  Last summer he looked okay for a while, then everything grew except his neck, that was pretty bad, I was depressed about having a no-neck horse.  Then the neck