This message is from: "Knutsen Fjord Farm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi all - Been too busy winding down my practice into total retirement and preparing for Norway to post lately. But I do want to respond to some of the hot topics lately. Haven't had time to read the infamous Rule Book yet, so I'll stay away from that topic. I'm too new to know the ropes there yet anyway. However. The stove pellet bedding is still great in my view. We're in the process of bedding all 5 of our stalls with it. [The 2 outside stables have sand bottoms.] It's extremely absorbent, and sifts through the fork readily, leaving just the good parts. Makes for a smaller manure pile. No smell, virtually no dust, long lasting - try it, you'll like it. Two caveats: 1] I imagine some horses might be allergic to it, as they might to any bedding; 2] I don't plan to use it when Silka presents us with the Crown Princess (we hope) in early July, because it's too slippery for a wobbly baby until broken down. Come to think of it, I could just bed the stall with the broken down pellets. Then they are not slippery at all. I really don't like straw for a number of reasons, but that has been the bedding of choice so far. Straw could be put over it for extra padding, like Gayle does with shavings+straw, and that would solve the absorbency problem that occurs with straw alone. The wood stove pellets and half the price of shavings. Speaking of Gayle. I felt so sad when I read your post about jeans and your wish for a height transplant. Perhaps we could work out a deal.... How many inches did you have in mind? I'm not sure it would work, though, because the donated leg part would have to be brought up to the skill level of the rest of your leg, and that would surely take a loooong time.... Well, it's late and I'm plum tuckered out, so I'd better sign off. Peg Knutsen [potential donor] http://www.eburg.com/~kffjord/
