Fjord Horses

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The quality horse

Vestlands are hard working, very good at pulling weights as compared with their size, and people oriented - these and other qualities makes them super family pets and work horses. They are sure footed and make excellent trail horses. ◊

- can be truly enjoyed

The Fjord horses are very good pack and trail horses, and can be truly enjoyed by the whole family. [E, D]

- and even used for special therapy

Certain therapists at B.O.K. in California are Vestland horses . . . Specially trained -

Fjord Horses are small compared to Clydesdales or Belgian draft horses, but strong and easily trained and eating less.

Gist

1. A Norwegian quality horse
2. can be enjoyed
3. and remarkably well trained.

Heritage horses

These economical horses are scattered world-wide too

Horses are ponies and vice versa. The shoulder height makes the difference.

Herds of wild Vestlands existed in Norway after the last ice age. By the year 2000 B.C. it is believed these horses were domesticated. A Vestland is easy to ride and keeps calm in difficult situations.

Fjord Horses learn new skills rapidly, and remember what they have learned even after extended periods out at pasture, and with a minimum of proper care make very dependable companions.

In "army horse circles", the Fjord is recognized as the best mountain army horse in the world because he is able to go where motorized vehicles and heavier horses must give up. He has a springy jump and a quite comfortable gait. ◊.

With his distinctive dun coloring, his white mane with its striking black stripe, and his pleasing, stocky, though not coarse conformation, the Vestland has a prehistoric appearance. The horse also has a dark dorsal stripe, beginning in the center of the forelock and running through the center of the mane, back and tail.

They are remarkably hardy and economical to feed.

Fjord Horses are exceedingly safe and are favourably people orientated. Yet there are limits to what even a Norwegian Fjord can adjust to.

Riding for fun grew in popularity during this century, the fame of the Vestland transcended the boundaries of his native land. Normally, Fjord Horses (Fjordings, Fjords, Vestlands) can be trusted on and ridden with great ease in English or Western manner, or driven in shows, parades and down country roads.

The Vestland is one of the world's oldest and purest breeds. In Norway, breeding of the Fjord Horse, Norway's oldest horse, is now under the control of the Norwegian government. In 2002 there were 6-8.000 fjord horses in Norway, and ca. 40-50.000 of them in other European countries and many other countries. They are found on most of the continents.

During the 1980s and 1990s, the Vestland became highly popular in Germany where he is the mount of choice for recreational riders. Otherwise Vestlands have registries in Canada, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Belgium. In Australia there were 60 of them in 2002. About twenty-two Vestlands were once imported to the United States. It's their descendants and a few of those originally imported that are scattered throughout North America. In the late 1990s there were about 3.000 Fjord Horses spread over the United States.

The Vestland is famous for his easy going, tractable, calm temperament, acting more like a dog than a horse.

Very hardy and sure-footed, and of a gentle nature

The original Vestland varies in color and averaged 12.1 hands in size (within pony limits). Selection has increased the height to 13 to 14.1 hands (still pony sized in general) and the breed is one of the few modern ones exhibiting only the dun coloration.

The heavier, draft type of Vestland is as happy to help out on the farm as his ancestors.

Vestlands are very hardy and healthy. When so many people with little or no horse experience are buying horses, it's all the more important that horse be of a gentle nature; a quality most sure-footed Vestlands possess.

Admired too

US president Dwight Eisenhower and general Montgomery both spoke with admiration of the Vestland horse.

Gist

1. The economical Vestland horses are widely propagated today.
2. These gentle-natured horses are generally are very hardy and sure-footed.
3. They are admirable, some think, such as Dwight Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth. She had one, Glen Tanar.

Donkeys, ponies, and school-children

Let lovers of small horses and donkeys - or strict observers of children and youngsters in school settings - strive to look into how being forced into the farm (or schoolyard) and being forced to plod on and on in the hands of teachers of the compulsive education, tends to manipulated activities further.

The gorilla, "I've striven for years to accomplish an easy-going, flowing style. You may not like to get it pinpointed. But I owe a special apology to many graduate students who wear clothing. How few are first-rate at just being themselves first and foremost, and not just parts of fattened flocks."

Pony lovers too think that plenty of conform learning is the antidote of being a failure. It's hardly correct in all respects, for higher, human learning is free-flowing deep inside. It happens every night that masked messages pop up - dream sleep is mankind's overlooked instruction time - There are biological limits. [Brd; Cf. Lte v]

Most farm animals and canary birds depend on us.

Free-flowing handling skill put to use

Decent human learning is in a free-flowing show from inside each night. Fit upbringing of donkeys and horses has to concern most of us: In some ways we are like them. [As 108]

Literature  

Bhb: Buzan, Tony. Bruk hodet bedre. Oslo: Hjemmet-Fagpresse, 1977.

Brd: Ullman, Montague, og Nan Zimmerman. Bruk dine drømmer. Oslo: Aventura, 1982.

Daf: Boberg, Inger M. Dansk folketradition i tro og digtning og deraf afhængig skik. (Danmarks Folkeminder 72). København: Munksgaard, 1962.

Kri: Walden, Peter. Tyd dina egna drömmar. Stockholm: Forum, 1985.

Lte: Schunk, Dale. Learning Theories. An Educational Perspective. 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Merrill/Prentice-Hall, 1996.

Meop: Steiner, Rudolf. Medopplevelse av årsløpet i fire kosmiske imaginasjoner: Fem foredrag i Dornach mellem 5. og 13. oktober 1923. Oslo: Norsk Antroposofisk Forlag, 1956.

Mtem: Steiner, Rudolf. Menneskets temperamenter: foredrag holdt vinteren 1908-1909. 3. oppl. Oslo: Norsk antroposofisk forlag, 1983.

Mum: Buzan, Tony. Make the Most of Your Mind. Rev. ed. London: Pan, 1988.

Zwm: Herrigel, Eugen. Zen i bueskytingens kunst. (Zen in der Kunst des Bogenschiessens) Oslo: Hilt og Hansteen, 1995. (Også Oslo: Gyldendal, 1971)



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