@Nocte Luna: That's really silly system.
I've only seen some stables charge extra for lessons where there are only 2-4 people, which sort of makes sense considering private lessons are more expensive and those stable usually have average of 6-8 people per lesson. But to charge extra for jumping higher, that's plain ridiculous.
Easy good ab exercise, yes please. Though I'm super lazy to do anything at home, but might as well try. XD
@Enchanted: Most of the first names are in Icelandic(or something that can be easily pronounced by an Icelandic/nordic person), last names vary depending on the country the horse was born in(frá can also be replaced with vom, from or från depending on the country). Sometimes people try translating their farm/stable name to Icelandic or often have named the stable in Icelandic to start with, so they use that as last name. Morgunsol, for example, means morning sun in Icelandic, though it is not our stable's name. Skidbakka, or actually Skidbakki, is an actually place in Iceland divided to two farm areas 1 and 3. ^^ Icelandics kinda have first and last name like people and then sometimes nicknames, which would be their barn names if not using their first name.
Oh no, that sounds kinda bad... :c Hopefully it's nothing serious, might be stress related as well.
If you have the chance to clip Willy, I wanna see pics of 'naked' him. XD
@Luzien: Neither have been tested nor have clearly splash parent(at least I don't remember so), so it's purely me being hopeful(sire has had one foal with pretty loud white marks and tends to throw some white on the foals). Though now that it has been proved Heta's sire isn't Jarl, chances of Heta being 'secret' splash are less likely... Jarl I actually though may have been small marked splash, as I think he had couple foals that had wide blazes and blue eyes etc. classic small splash marks. But now it would seem Heta's sire is actually a solid black one(I'll write about that later on this post), so she would have inherited the color and markings from her mother, who doesn't have too many foals with white marks.
@June: With some type of bitless you can also put on a bridle with bit. c; So if the bitless fails you have 'safety' brake at use. Of course that would mean two reins, but in theory you wouldn't have to have both on your hands at the same time.
AI(ordering semen etc.) is also the most common way of breeding here, though minus ponies and Icelandics which are mainly bred via live cover. Some cold blood trotters offer live covers, if they are not big shots in the competitions/races and are not expecting ton of mares. I know literally one Icelandic stallion here, who advertises to do the AI method. It's a shame really as most Icelandic stallions live in the southern half of the country, while there are also mares up it the north, which would have to travel a loooong way to be bred.
When doing live cover, in hand, they breed the mare every other day after the heat starts until the mare no longer allows the stallion near her. That way the optimal time is usually not missed and the chances are good for the breeding to take. If the mare and stallion would be allowed to be freely in the pasture, I've heard the stallion would breed with the mare several times a day... With AI, they need to do several ultrasounds to pin point that exact optimal time for the breeding and often they use a hormone shot to speed up the ovulation after putting the stuff in. (lol, I wonder if this is even a CS safe matter to talk about XD)
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I went to hang out at the stable, since I was bored and needed to whine about Heta's daddy issues to people. XD Lucky I went and stayed pretty long(filmed one camper's horse being ridden by S for R, while R took two groups of campers for trail ride, so then had to wait until R got back to show her the clips) as I finally saw the adorable
fox cubs. <3 Only down side, the freaking wind. It's been really really windy lately and it's barely 20C outside, so with cold wind and no sun it actually gets pretty cold, especially without windproof jacket(guess who forgot theirs home -_-). The wind was also the kind that picks up great amount of dust and other little bits and flies it straight into your eyes and mouth and even under your clothes. >_<
Also when I got home I found
Tý's breeding show papers among the mail. <3 This style is called linear evaluation if someone wonders. ^^
Now about Heta's daddy issue. I got the mail chain today about this whole mess, and turns out this issue has come up already in MARCH. O_O In the conversation, no one mentions telling the owner about it(other than, 'the owner should contact the breeder and try figure it out, or if they can't we should') and they've actually contacted the breeder and figured the possible sire candidates. Apparently there were 6 stallions that summer on the farm, only 2 have DNA taken. One was the one they thought was Heta's dad and the other they've now ruled out as not her dad based on the DNA.
The breeder thinks the most likely sire is stallion called Krummi frá Sólheimum(who is dead, so no possible way to get his DNA). I'm not too over joyed over this knowledge as, well, he's actually not very great on paper at least... Barely average with total score of 7,61 and only one first prize ofspring. Though he only had handfull evaluated ofsprings anyway. : PThe reason why I wasn't notified of any of this until now(as soon as the stallion owner mailed people about this I was contacted by the registeration office people), is because the registeration person thought the Icelandic horse people involved would have told me. -__- Oh, really now... I think it's the registeration people's job to tell the owner if there's something wrong with your horse's papers. As they had to order new passport for Heta from Iceland and also Tý needs new passport as well, since Heta's pedigree changes. So I'll have to deliver both of their old papers to the office to get new ones. : P They also seem to already have the new papers for Heta, so kinda really [censored] thing they haven't let my know about it before.
Still trying to see if it would be possible to get a match by compairing Krummi's ofspring's DNA to Heta's... Probably won't be enough for offical records, but I'd like to know my mare's pedigree if I breed her or her foals. Luckily if Heta's sire really is Krummi, it doesn't up Tý's or the future foal's inbreeding too that much, might actually lower it now that I think about it...Edit: Well, turns out the person trying to figure out this mess and checking DNAs already compaired Heta's with the two foals, not a match. And the two are not even from the same sire either.
So back to square one, now I need to find out the names of the 3 non-checked stallions...
for when im fit again in some month,and when my doc gives the ok to do mare then walk^^
