This message is from: "Cheryl Beillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I find this discussion of the distancing between the world of draft and fjords in NA to be very interesting. A couple of years ago, I took a week long course driving work horses .. a bit of everything, skidding, disking, plowing, teams, cones, etc. 8 hours a day, hitching and unhitching 5-6 times a day and a series of suppers at the various teamsters homes so we could see their different arrangements for stabling, training ,etc. When I expressed an interest in Fjords, several of the boys looked disgusted and muttered something about "those fat little ugly horses" .. lt was a great course, but I now have a better context in which to assess the comments I got re: fjords. And I bought one anyhow! I found throwing those hames over those Belgians was a real chore. And they didn't have the pickup and go of the fjords, lovely that they were.
