--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: EGT00001 Date: 12/22/97 From: JEAN PROPHET Time: 08:40pm \/To: JERRYL EVANEE (Read 0 times) Subj: English SHIRE Horses ... > JP> the meantime I'm still looking and this time it's at a Belgium horse... > That's Belgian... Right (my spelling isn't very good . > Short legs, more power than most other breeds. Not > very showy > in a carriage, though. I've seen a few white ones pulling a carriage like ours -- they really look classy. > Sounds like you're having fun with your > shopping. I wish I could be there. I LOVE looking at > the > difference in breeds within a single species! We're having a WONDERFUL time with it!! Nice having fun with your job ) --- * Origin: Home of Mr X's 'XTRAORDINARY CARRIAGE SERVICES! (1:371/33) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: EGT00002 Date: 12/23/97 From: MIKE MAY Time: 10:34am \/To: JERRYL EVANEE (Read 0 times) Subj: Fjord questions -> I have the black and white drawing completed, and am moving on the colour -> illustration next. A couple of questions: -> -> 1. My horse reference books list the Norwegian Fjord as a pony, the -> pamphlets from the Norwegian Fjord Registry list it as a -> horse. I thought that there was actually quite a bit of difference -> between a horse and a pony, in bone & teeth structure, some -> behaviour patterns. Do you know why there is this double -> listing? Well the real difference between a Pony & a Horse is alway a question or an argument. Normally it is only by size though. The Pony cutoff is generally accepted as 14.2 hands high. (A hand being 4") So Fjords do fit into both Pony and Horse catagories. The reason most people call them Fjord Horses is that in Norway where they come from there isn't even a word that translates o Pony. So in Norway they are know as the Fjord Hest. -> 2. The issue that I got was the Fall 1997 issue, the foal issue. By the -> way, I love it! I am going to keep this as a valuable -> reference tool. If anyone else has ANY interest in sketching -> horses, grab a copy of the Herald - the photos are very clear -> and have lots of poses to help you out. My second question, -> though, is that in all the photos of the foals, which are in -> black and white, their manes look quite pale, and the dorsal -> stripes and leg stripes didn't show up. Is this because the -> striping didn't show up in the photo, or because the darker -> markings develop later on? The dark marking typically don't show up until the horse is more mature. ome foals are quite hard to tell if they are going to be gray or brown dun. The strips do get darker when they get older. --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 2 * Origin: Home of Malla, the spoiled Norwegian Fjord (1:2613/128) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: EGT00003 Date: 12/23/97 From: MIKE MAY Time: 10:36am \/To: JOHN ROOKER (Read 0 times) Subj: English SHIRE Horses ... -> How about a Percheron for a carriage? Beautiful animals! Or a Clyde! --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 2 * Origin: Home of Malla, the spoiled Norwegian Fjord (1:2613/128) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: EGT00004 Date: 12/23/97 From: JOHN ROOKER Time: 01:01pm \/To: MIKE MAY (Read 0 times) Subj: English SHIRE Horses ... Hi Mike! Tuesday December 23 1997 10:36, Mike May wrote to John Rooker: ->> How about a Percheron for a carriage? Beautiful animals! MM> Or a Clyde! Yep!, But then everyone would be expecting the beer wagon. :-) At the Lilac Festival, there is usually a carriage with a pair of Percherons. The are stunning with a white carriage! -John- * www.ggw.org/net2613 * --- * Origin: (1:2613/229) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: EGT00005 Date: 12/23/97 From: BOB KOHL Time: 12:15am \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: assorted TO all my appologies.. I've been a little pre-occupied with personal issues. I'd like to take a moment to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and a happy, healthy and prosperous new year. To those of you that have been there during these recent issues, a very special thank you for being there when it counted. BK --- DB A3000sl/001347 * Origin: * Conniption BBS * one fit at a time (1:102/861) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: EGT00006 Date: 12/23/97 From: BOB KOHL Time: 12:19am \/To: MEG ALFONI (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: English SHIRE Horses ... > JP :> That's what I've always heard ....... I'll let you know > JP :>how it turns out > You're gonna need BBBIIIIGGG tack! Good luck, Jean...you'll have horses > from both ends of the size spectrum and everything in between! You want to talk about big.. Sharon's Perch at the stable is good sized.. in fact to give you an idea of how powerful he is.. he though she had a carrot in her hand the other day and went to take it. He accidently destroyed the tip of her finger. :/ She's fine (well relatively speaking) and knows it was an accident and that she really shouldn't have been hand feeding him. Mike is the older Perch with 3 out of 4 rotated.. it's amazing that he does as well as he does. He was an impressive show horse at one time. BK --- DB A3000sl/001347 * Origin: * Conniption BBS * one fit at a time (1:102/861) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: EGT00007 Date: 12/17/97 From: SIMON AVERY Time: 03:07pm \/To: JEAN PROPHET (Read 0 times) Subj: Frolicking Sham ... Howdy Jean! 14 Dec 97 06:11, Jean Prophet wrote to Simon Avery: >> I find it fascinating to watch the heirachy forming and >> and it's especially fast to develop with mares. One of our JP> They ARE interesting to observe, aren't they?? The pony, Tuffy, JP> used to be at the bottom of the list ...... however, since we got JP> SEDONA, Tuffy isn't the last in line anymore -- SEDONA is. AND, she JP> doesn't seem to mind being there Funny that. Some horses are born at the bottom end and never try to move. JP> ..... Tuffy, on the other hand, has perked up, and as little as HE is, JP> he "rules" his place in the herd (before it didn't seem to matter JP> to him what place he was in). :) We've got a miniature shetland, Peter Pan. He was cut late, so is still a bit of a 'little man'. If you put him in a field of mares, even if they're 15h+, he's strutting about rounding them all up. Great fun to watch. Simon --- FMail/386 1.20 * Origin: Tag-O-Matic - Freq T-MATIC from Origin (2:255/90) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: EGU00000 Date: 12/24/97 From: JERRYL EVANEE Time: 01:26am \/To: JEAN PROPHET (Read 0 times) Subj: Belgians > Short legs, more power than most other breeds. Not >very showy in a carriage, though. JP> I've seen a few white ones pulling a carriage like ours -- they JP> really look classy. I withdraw my comment then. The only Belgians I have seen around here are the very tank-like, cream-colored chestnuts that are used in log pulling contests. They are extremely powerful, but lacking in style. I didn't even know there were any white ones. Maybe, as in some breeds, there are two distinct lines? The Belgians here are like weight lifters, not particularly graceful but they win all the pulling contests. ... ...... ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: MiddleWood (604) 327-7949 (1:153/8033.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: EGU00001 Date: 12/24/97 From: JERRYL EVANEE Time: 01:30am \/To: MIKE MAY (Read 0 times) Subj: Fjord questions MM> Well the real difference between a Pony & a Horse is alway a question MM> or an argument. Normally it is only by size though. Oh. I thought there was distinct bone & teeth stuff. In that case, it is a Hest to me, too. :-) MM> foals are quite hard to tell if they are going to be gray or brown MM> dun. The strips do get darker when they get older. The colouring, the wording anyway, is another mystery. All the horses that i have seen were yellowy or creamy yellow coloured with very dark stripes; which I assumed were black. Grey and brown dun, though,I am puzzled by. Does this mean that the stripes are grey or brown, or that there are actually grey-bodied norwegian fjords out there somewhere? ... ...... ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: MiddleWood (604) 327-7949 (1:153/8033.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: EGU00002 Date: 12/24/97 From: MIKE MAY Time: 12:59pm \/To: JOHN ROOKER (Read 0 times) Subj: English SHIRE Horses ... -> -> ->> How about a Percheron for a carriage? Beautiful animals! -> MM> Or a Clyde! -> Yep!, But then everyone would be expecting the beer wagon. :-) -> At the Lilac Festival, there is usually a carriage with a pair of -> Percherons. The are stunning with a white carriage! Yes they are. We went for a wagon ride behind a team of Belgians last Sunday night out at Sonnenberg Gardens. The ride was fun but I was expecting to go around the grounds and see the lights from the wagon. Instead they took us out the gate and over into the VA hospital's parking lot and down the road! uess they didn't want the horse manure on the paths the people were walking on. --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 2 * Origin: Home of Malla, the spoiled Norwegian Fjord (1:2613/128)